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Course Outline
What is SOA Governance?
- Compliance to standards or laws
- Change management
- Ensuring quality of services
- Managing the portfolio of services
- Managing the service lifecycle
- Using policies to restrict behavior
- Monitoring performance of services
The SOA Governance issue
- Governance appearing as SOA initiatives
- A dynamic environment for services to interact
- Encouraging reuse of services
- Controlling how services interact with each other
- The long-term ROI and manageability
Governance questions
- Where they start on the governance ladder?
- Governance as core feature of any SOA initiative
- Establishing a timeline
- Personnel training and operational procedures
- Putting skills and procedures in place well ahead
SOA Governance Stages
- First: realization that governance is needed
- Second: governance improving business execution
- Third: mixing technology & changes in behavior
- Fourth: technology selection & implementation
Service Management
- Design-time perspective
- Run-time perspective
- Repository of service for reuse
- Services contained in heterogeneous platforms
- Service-virtualization for run-time management of services
Critical governance components
- Service registry service and an asset repository
- Creating a "SOA Centre of Excellence”
- Focusing on establishing SOA organizational guidelines
- The organizational maturity
- Agreed governance policies
SOA Governance tools
- Real time monitoring of events
- Failures in a BSM framework
- Service-level instrumentation
- Hooking into operational management systems
- Virtualization as enabler to separate governance/service logic
- Service virtualization managed by operational staff
Achieving governance
- Measuring the goals for governance
- The internal audit
- Automating the audit
Developing core SOA governance
- Why SOA technology stack has grown complex
- Mixing between COTS & in-house
- Justifying external consultants to help out
- Figuring out which business we are really in
Roles and responsibilities involved in SOA Governance
- Establishing a SOA Centre of Excellence
- Enterprise-wide planning and assistance in execution
- The roles of the SOA architect/governance architect
- Solving potential conflicting interests
- Ensure that governance guidelines are followed
Barriers to SOA governance
- Not realizing the need for governance
- Lack of Governance technologies
- Lack of Service virtualizations
State of good governance
- Interaction with external parties
- Managing the business rules and BRE mgmt
- Regulations for good governance
- The agreements repository
- Proactively embedding governance in the business
- Governance by action rather than by statement
- SLA monitoring to establish premium prices
Critical success factors
- Start thinking about governance early
- View governance as a moving target
- Manage policies as entities with their own lifecycles
- Choose a technology platform
- The platform should address immediate governance needs
- Future support as SOA infrastructure scales
- Enforce service level agreements
Service virtualization
- External configuration of encryption & routing
- Authentication and schema validation
- Transferring control from programmers to operational staff
- Alleviating many of the SOA core pains
- Avoiding services with internal policies
- Technology and deployment neutral services
The 'dark path' in SOA
- What if the service produces non-compliant data
- Logging, tracking and auditing
- Halting erroneous operations as they occur
- Involving corrective business processes
Final thoughts and Conclusions
- Greatest challenges with SOA
- Critical aspects of SOA governance
- Service reuse as a key benefit of SOA
- The governance of reuse
- Visibility, risk and control
Requirements
SOA Awareness
14 Hours
Testimonials (5)
Trainer had a good rapport and was very helpful and kept it interesting; makes a big difference when learning.
Andy Johnston - QA Ltd
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extensive knowledge cover many things.
metab alanazi - Saudi Arabian Monetary Authority
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I really enjoyed the interactif.
Jan Lenie - APB
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The theory felt quite complete, we handled all important subjects. It was very nice we could zoom in on our use-case Achievements, which helped us with understanding the theory.
