A Lifecycle Approach to SOA Governance

Schepers, T.G.J. and Iacob, M.E. and Eck van, P.A.T. (2008) A Lifecycle Approach to SOA Governance. In: ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, SAC 2008, 16-20 March 2008, Fortaleza, Brazil.

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Abstract:	Due to the distributed nature of Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA), maintaining control in a SOA environment becomes more difficult as services spread over different lines-of-business. The concept of SOA governance has emerged as a way to implement control mechanisms in a SOA. In this paper we identify a lifecycle based approach for executing SOA governance. This approach consists of defining a SOA strategy, aligning the organization, managing the service portfolio, controlling the service lifecycle, enforcing policies and managing service levels. By incorporating a maturity model in this approach, it is possible to minimize the required effort while still having sufficient governance. From a series of interviews that have been carried out we could conclude that most current SOA projects - although relatively limited in their scope - raise governance issues that need to be addressed to prevent future problems.
Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item
Copyright:	© 2008 ACM
Faculty:	Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science (EEMCS)
Research Chair:	Design & Implementation of Information Systems (ISCM)
Research Group:	Information Systems (IS) Industrial Engineering & Business Information Systems (IEBIS)
Link to this item:	http://purl.utwente.nl/publications/64697
Official URL:	http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1363686.1363932
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