Governance: The Key To Unlocking the Challenges of SOA

The service-oriented architecture (SOA) promises to reduce costs, improve performance, and generate efficiencies in a wide range of industries. But to reap those benefits, organizations must understand and address a number of key SOA governance issues. In this paper, HP outlines the nine processes of a closed-loop SOA governance model, and demonstrates how SOA governance facilitates service planning, service funding, and runtime policy enforcement.