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Build your SOA Governance transition planWhen an organization implements SOA, business and IT teams naturally converge through the activity of establishing effective SOA Governance. From a business point of view, SOA Governance covers the people, processes and technologies involved in the entire SOA life cycle. From an IT perspective, SOA Governance covers connectivity and reuse. To achieve the promise-of-value of SOA for service reuse and improved business agility, companies need to align business strategy with IT projects, and they can do this by having all parties collaborate closely to establish SOA Governance.
IBM How service-oriented architecture (SOA) impacts your IT infrastructureIn this paper, you will learn how SOA impacts your IT infrastructure—in particular, how business processes and transactions are handled differently in an SOA environment than in a traditional application architecture. We will discuss the new elements which are necessary for your IT infrastructure to support SOA and share our experience and recommendations to help you meet the new availability, performance, security and management challenges.
IBM Five best practices for deploying a successful service-oriented architectureToday’s innovative market leaders are in the forefront of implementing advanced business applications—leveraging industryspecific solution frameworks supported by a service-oriented architecture (SOA). IBM strives for high achievement and consistent, measurable results. To this end, the IBM Academy of Technology recently initiated a study of SOA Foundation deployments. With the objective of identifying a set of best practices based on successful outcomes, a team of IBM’s top technologists—120 IT architects, developers, IT specialists, and project managers from around the globe—reviewed more than 200 case study submissions, choosing nearly 100 case studies that were selected for evaluation. The team categorized 750 lessons learned and 650 best
practices across 10 domain categories identified as the most important focus areas for a successful SOA