Gervas, Great article...this is NOT a self promotion what-so-ever but IBM is following my companies lead.
Skyway was the first to introduce a Governance slice to the SOA Platforms. Chris --- Gervas Douglas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We have had a few discussions on SOA Governance, so > you might be > interested to learn what tack IBM is taking: > > <<Specific deliverables of the new IGS offerings > include > methodologies for establishing an SOA center of > excellence, designed > to foster best practices and architectural > standards, plus a > governance model that helps enforce them on new SOA > development > projects. > > The governance model establishes a lifecycle for > creating, managing, > and retiring or repurposing services. It defines a > life cycle for > service development that leverages the > services-oriented modeling > architecture (SOMA) that IBM rolled out last year. > > It also formalizes decision paths, outlining who is > responsible for > making and reviewing which decision impacting SOA > rollouts, while > setting checkpoints to track business alignment and > effectiveness of > new and existing services across different stages of > the life cycle. > IGS is offering templates for establishing these > processes and > procedures. > > IGS is also offering a template for setting up an > SOA Center of > Excellence that includes representatives of IT, the > business, plus > SOA architects. Its responsibility is the usual grab > bag of defining > reference architectures, publishing patterns and > best practices, > conducting architectural reviews, and delivering > architectural > mentoring. > > The roadmap assumes that these excellence centers > would be set up > incrementally rather than overnight, based on the > organization's > experience and maturity in SOA rollout. Although > similar in name > only, IGS's SOA maturity model has nothing to do > with a rival > proposal last week from Sonic, AmberPoint, Systinet, > and Bearing > Point.>> > > You can read the details at: > > http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=BA32679F-A99B-4881- > A7E8-814489B9D723 > > Will the industry follow BigBlue's direction?? > > Gervas > > > > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back! http://us.click.yahoo.com/T8sf5C/tzNLAA/TtwFAA/NhFolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/service-orientated-architecture/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
