Governance for Service-oriented Architectures : An Implementation Approach.
Michael Niemann · TUbilio (Technical University of Darmstadt) · 2008
As a matter of fact, SOA-based systems have a huge internal complexity due to plenty of services. On the one hand, this complexity enables and strongly supports the flexible alignment of the enterprise architecture with business processes. On the other hand, it requires a special management and control framework – provided by SOA Governance. For IT Governance, many accepted approaches exist. In many aspects they provide guidance for SOA Governance frameworks. However, in SOA-specific fields like cross-company cooperation or service life cycle management, IT Governance approaches lack applicability. In this short paper, we compare existing SOA Governance models and present an implementation approach.