The Current State of SOA Governance

As organizations begin to adopt service-oriented architectures (SOA), the topic of SOA governance -- the articulation and enforcement of policies related to Web-service lifecycles, implementation protocols, service access, information protection and service-level agreements -- is receiving an increasing amount of attention. ebizQ conducted this online survey in August 2006 in order to understand the current state of SOA governance from the practitioner’s point of view. Discover the surprising results.

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White Paper Abstract - The Current State of SOA Governance

This paper shares the results of the August 2006 SOA Governance Survey, along with ebizQ's observations on current SOA trends.

The SOA survey revealed that while most organizations are doing something related to SOA, only a third of respondents classified their SOA adoption stage as deployed, while 65% are actively pursuing SOA in the form of planning, pilots or production deployments. Less than 20% of respondents have more than 50 services in production.

While 85% of organizations have, or will soon have, a corporate governance mandate, few have formalized governance roles and 70% are enforcing governance manually. Survey respondents recognize this discontinuity as only 17% characterized their SOA governance strategy as sufficient.

It is clear from this survey, and from the growth of SOA adoption across industries, that governance is a timely issue, and one to which organizations need to begin to pay attention. The rest of this report details the survey findings, relates them to market observations and provides recommendations for creating governance practices that will sufficiently meet the objectives of the organizational policies.

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Learn all about the rest of the report's findings on SOA adoption and SOA governance. Find out how to implement governance practices that will meet your organization's security and SOA policy management requirements. Download The Current State of SOA Governance white paper today.