Service-oriented architecture (SOA) governance is a concept used for activities related to exercising control over services in an SOA. SOA governance can be seen as a subset of IT governance which itself is a subset of corporate governance. The focus is on those resources to be leveraged for SOA to deliver value to the business. SOA requires a number of IT support processes as well as organizational processes that will also involve the business leaders. SOA needs a solid foundation that is based on standards and includes policies, contracts, and service level agreements. The business is expected to be able to use services to build and change the organizations business process quickly. To do so, a degree of granularity in the services available will be required. Consequently an SOA increases the need for good governance as it will help assign decision-making authorities, roles, and responsibilities and bring focus to the organizational capabilities needed to be successful. This book is your ultimate resource for SOA Governance. Here you will find the most up-to-date information, analysis, background and everything you need to know. In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about SOA Governance right away, covering: SOA Governance, Adaptive Services Grid, Application fabrication, B2B Gateway, Barracuda Networks, Boomerang Software Framework, Business Process Network, Canonical Protocol Pattern, Canonical Schema pattern, Communications-enabled application, Composite application, DataNucleus, Denodo, Differentiated service, Digital Nervous System, Domain Inventory Pattern, Enterprise Inventory, Enterprise service bus, Enterprise Service Layer, Entity Abstraction Pattern, Event-driven architecture, Event-Driven Messaging, Event-driven SOA, Experticity, Freightgate, FuseSource Corp., Intel SOA Products Division, JackBe, Logic Centralization Pattern, Loose coupling, Machine-to-Machine, Midas Kapiti, Multitenancy, Mushroom Networks, MVaaS, Net-Centric Enterprise Services, Network-Centric Service-Oriented Enterprise (NCSOE), OASIS SOA Reference Model, Open Knowledge Initiative, Open Mashup Alliance, Open Service Interface Definitions, Opti-Time Company, Oslo (Microsoft), Postini, Reliable messaging, S-RAMP, SAP Enterprise Architecture Framework, Semantic service-oriented architecture, SEMCI, Service (systems architecture), Service Abstraction, Service Autonomy Principle, Service Capability Interaction Manager, Service Component Architecture, Service Composability Principle, Service Data Objects, Service Discoverability Principle, Service discovery, Service layer, Service Layers Pattern, Service Loose Coupling, Service Normalization Pattern, Service Oriented Architecture Fundamentals, Service Refactoring, Service Reusability Principle, Service Statelessness Principle, Service-orientation, Service-Orientation Design Principles, Service-oriented architecture, Service-oriented architecture implementation framework, Service-Oriented Architecture Types, Service-Oriented Development of Applications, Service-oriented device architecture, Service-oriented infrastructure, Service-oriented modeling, Service-oriented programming, Service-oriented transformation, Services computing, Shared services, SOA environment, SOA Security, SOALIB, SoaML, Nsite Software (Platform as a Service), Software as a service, Standardized Service Contract, TOA Technologies, Utility Abstraction Pattern, Web Service Choreography, Web-oriented architecture, Corporate Governance of ICT, Corporate governance of information technology, AS 8015, Autonomic Networking, Certified in the Governance of Enterprise IT...and much moreThis book explains in-depth the real drivers and workings of SOA Governance. It reduces the risk of your technology, time and resources investment decisions by enabling you to compare your understanding of SOA Governance with the objectivity of experienced professionals.