SOA Governance - to streamline SOA-based business services!

By name, SOA Governance is a broad term that encompasses making of strategies & protocols, rendering a set of processes or procedures to administer and get the way of implementing the service oriented architecture (SOA) parallel to industry-standard principles, government rules and regulations. The objective of this SOA governance is to let the SOA operates consistently, leveraging superior quality and enhanced performance only when the SOA subject matter experts strictly adheres to principles for repairing any system problems etc.

But what’s all about SOA – service oriented architecture? – As the name indicates, it’s nothing but the structure and the organization of service series as the services be default involve in communicating each other like sending requests and responses between service consumers and service providers. This SOA architecture comes in the context of when software is consumed or delivered as ‘service’; so the service providers and consumers become a coupled system forming the start & end points in which a web portal, or device becomes the common interface between the end-points. But, who acts as a communication messenger between the end points? It’s all the web service protocols that are again application system to activate system to system interaction over a wide-range of systems on and on extending to networks to networks. To simply put, web services form the base pillars of building, publishing, acquiring and consuming services. SOA brings an evolution in the software implementation model bringing a great changein the fundamental way of doing business. The key feature of service concept is that software when used as service allows delivering repeatedly for number of times – i.e. services are re-usable and self-explanatory leading to “pay and use” subscription model.

The prime objective of SOA governance is to create values to business and consumers with the development of custom service; formulating SOA governance strategies should encompass, yet blending the three giant PPTs in IT industry – People, Process, and Technologies that form the building blocks of complete SOA life cycle in terms ofbusiness, but the interoperability and reusability from technology point of view – reaching the vision of aligning business with IT.

With the follow-up key guidelines – Establishing SOA competency center, SOA repository, monitoring and managing the quality of service and SOA life cycle –Get your SOA implementation better governed.