Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Governance for the Services Driven Enterprise : Business, IT, and Funding for the Evolving Business

**A must-have guide for all companies undertaking service-oriented architecture (SOA) and IT governance Service-Oriented Architecture Governance for the Services Driven Enterprise expertly covers the business, organizational, process, compliance, security, and technology facets of SOA and IT governance. This book provides a comprehensive enterprise view of governance from a strategic and tactical perspective, as well as modeling and planning tools to help evolve a company's ongoing governance requirements. Written by Eric Marks and the industry's leading SOA authorities, this essential book provides a refreshing business-driven perspective to SOA and IT governance.**

A must-have for all companies undertaking service-oriented architecture (SOA) governance

As SOA interest and adoption have accelerated rapidly, the challenges of governance have risen to the forefront across the entire industry. Without an SOA governance model, SOA adoption is stilted and hampered by a lack of engagement with key enterprise stakeholders.

Service-Oriented Architecture Governance for the Services Driven Enterprise provides a universal governance model design framework that will apply to any enterprise governance challenge-corporate governance, IT governance, enterprise architecture governance, portfolio management, or PMO governance-and helps you establish a process for building your own enterprise SOA governance model.

Drawing upon his extensive experience in software and technology services, author and industry expert Eric Marks discusses:

• The SOA governance imperative
• Why apply an SOA governance reference model?
• An overview of major enterprise governance processes and their relationship to SOA governance
• How to organize your SOA governance toolkit
• A universal enterprise SOA governance model design framework
• New perspectives on SOA policies and policy enforcement mechanisms
• Governance organizational designs, structural models, and governance board best practices
• An overview of SOA governance enabling technology and industry standards
• Services life-cycle governance approaches and best practices
• Creating the right organizational, cultural, and behavioral model
• A cutting-edge view of the future of governance, leveraging experiences from open source, the Internet, and more

Many companies fail to create an integrated vision for how business processes should work across the enterprise. Service-Oriented Architecture Governance for the Services Driven Enterprise is a pragmatic road map for any company seeking to implement SOA to leverage profitability and growth.

"If you are leading the charge to adopt service-oriented architecture (SOA) within your enterprise, you know that successful implementation of SOA is challenging to the point that many organizations just avoid confronting the SOA governance issue altogether. Capturing a wealth of practical experience and lessons learned in what has become the hottest topic in business, Service-Oriented Architecture Governance for the Services Driven Enterprise insightfully presents a proven model of Enterprise SOA Governance, augmented by a governance modeling design framework and a body of governance modeling tools and techniques to meet all of your enterprise SOA governance requirements."--book jacket i like the ideas but i am not so sure about some of the content the book needs more work i recomend it to PHD students very good for research and development of governance tools and utilities good for managagers that want to design policies another use for the book can be for production support people