One of the key takeaways from this survey is that SOA is real and happening on a large scale. Governance was critical or moderately important for 91% of the respondents. The survey also sampled the ...

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The purpose of SOA governance is to cut across all the silos and get all the business on the same page, using the same services. However, my chum Tony Baer over at Ovum is seeing evidence that ...

The SOA Consortium released materials from its SOA Governance Roundtable panel, which was part of its European general meeting held in June. The Roundtable featured comments on the governance concept ...

SOA planning is committee work, and it often requires that IT architects meet to assess a steady stream of proposals for services to run on the corporate network. “In P&C, we have a high-level project ...

Here’s a safe prediction: You’ll be hearing more sales pitches about API management in the New Year. That’s a safe prediction because it’s already starting to happen. Of course, API management isn’t ...

SOA governance is one of those topics that mean different things to different people in the world of SOA. I'm a bit tired of briefings by governance vendors who start out the conversation with "What's ...

The Open Group's project to produce a framework for SOA governance has passed a milestone that makes it an international standard, the organization announced earlier this month. The Service-Oriented ...

We talk a lot about SOA governance, and there has been no shortage of posts here at this blogsite about the importance of governance to make SOA work. But is something being missed in the rush to SOA ...

Does the world really need two separate industry initiatives devoted to interoperability in SOA governance? Panelists from technology companies in the governance space debated this question at the ...

I have seen many companies fall into two different traps when attempting to implement SOA governance. The first trap is not having a robust enough governance model. The second trap is having so much ...