SOA Governance: Governing Shared Services On-Premise and in the Cloud

The authoritative, complete guide to governing Service- Oriented Architecture projects, initiatives, and environments. The first book to fully focus on the #1 success factor in large-scale SOA environments: effective governance. Covers relationships between SOA governance and IT organizations, software development, technology infrastructure, SLAs, vendor selection, and more Indispensable for all SOA architects and consultants. Co-authored by Thomas Erl, the worlds #1 SOA expert. As companies increasingly invest in SOA infrastructures - and as these infrastructures change and mature - effective governance has become crucial to success. Now, theres a comprehensive and authoritative guide to effective SOA governance. Leading SOA author Thomas Erl and a team of expert enterprise consultants have brought together best practices for all aspects of SOA governance. Non-dogmatic and vendor-neutral-SOA Governance is , focused on helping readers identify and implement the strategies that work best in their own environments. Erl and his colleagues offer indispensable guidance for all major constituencies in the IT organization, starting with application architects and developers. They also illuminate SOAs key linkages with - and implications for - both IT and the broader enterprise. Coverage includes: Establishing foundational governance layers. Understanding key relationships between IT governance and SOA governance. SOA governance budgeting, roles, and responsibilities. Governance and application development, including SLAs, service inventories, service discovery, and versioning. Governance and technology infrastructure, including patterns, vendor selection, security, and scalability. Planning for the future Throughout, the authors provide clear metrics for determining whether SOA governance is delivering results, and illustrate key concepts with case studies and diagrams.