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Key Reasons for Implementing SOA Runtime Governance
Your organization is committed to implementing service-oriented architecture (SOA). You've put in place procedures to govern your design-time processes, but do you know what is really happening within your SOA infrastructure—at runtime? Progress Software’s Director of Technology Dr. Giles Nelson discusses the key reasons for SOA runtime governance and shows how other organizations have used Progress® Actional® Web Services and SOA management products to strike the balance between encouraging reuse of services at design time and ensuring that policies for access, security, and performance are enforced at runtime.
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Abstract: Key Reasons for Implementing SOA Management and Runtime Governance
The time has come for implementing SOA management or runtime governance. Businesses are now implementing enterprise-scale SOAs. IDC predicts a quadrupling in the amount spent on SOA in EMEA alone from €400 million in 2006 to €2.1 billion by 2010.
This Webinar provides a closer look at why SOA runtime governance is important for SOA success, how it's different from design-time governance, and the SOA governance capabilities of Progress Actional, including the SOA benefits Actional has delivered for a European retail bank.
The Case for Implementing SOA Management and Runtime Governance
SOA projects need end-to-end visibility to ensure reliable SOA operations. Design-time governance isn't enough, as shown by the example of a major credit card processor. Although the company's SOA incorporated the security rules imposed by Visa and Master Card, ultimately, a rogue service collected credit card information for analysis. When this was hacked, 40 million identities were stolen, leading to the company's liquidation.
Implementing SOA Runtime Governance: How It Differs from Design-time Governance
Design-time governance provides a framework for SOA development and deployment, including how Web services and other services should be designed and reused and what tools to use. It also covers deployment issues such as quality, SOA security, and service validation.
But this isn't enough. As our example shows, services can slip through the cracks, and people will break the rules to deliver functionality for the business. Also, real-time SOA operational conditions—such as heavy demand for some services—can lead to the need for rule changes. Finally, efficient SOA change management and SOA versioning lead to a need for visibility into the production environment.
SOA management or runtime governance fills the gap in two areas. It provides end-to-end runtime visibility into SOA processes and SOA control, by enforcing policies for SOA security and service-level agreements (SLAs).
Progress Actional for SOA Runtime Governance
Progress Actional products provide SOA and Web services management and runtime governance capabilities. They:
- Deliver end-to-end runtime SOA monitoring with low latency, automatically discovering all services in a process and allowing users to drill down to individual services and access SOA performance history for root cause analysis of bottlenecks and other problems.
- Enable users to see executing SOA processes in the context of business metrics—for aligning an SOA with business goals
- Provide active policy enforcement for ensuring SOA security through centralized definition and management of security policy and distributed application to appropriate services, for application on the network.
Case Study: Benefits of Implementing SOA with Progress Actional
A European retail bank saw immediate benefits when implementing SOA runtime governance with Actional. Actional's ability to auto-discover all services in the SOA environment revealed more than 30 live SOA systems in the pre-production environment—without controls. This and other discoveries enabled the bank to act quickly to correct problems and ensure compliance and operational stability.
For more information: Learn more about how Actional provides key SOA management and runtime governance capabilities and the benefits for a major bank implementing SOA. Download "Key Reasons for Implementing SOA Runtime Benefits."
