SOA Governance

SOA: the new development paradigm

Today's IT solutions are mostly defined as silos within an application domain. Often these solutions have evolved within projects, are technology bound and are hard to expand. Service Oriented Architecture strives to enable interoperability and agility in applications. Under SOA, functionality is exposed as reusable services. These services may exist in different application domains. As such, organizations develop services to solve problems within their business and no longer need be concerned with technical challenges of interoperability.

Challenges

Service Oriented Architecture creates a new layer in the enterprise. This new layer poses new challenges for security, management, reliability, change management, and much more.

• Operational Complexities - Deployment and life-cycle management procedures become much more complicated in a SOA environment.
• SOA is not one project - SOA is created as the result of many independent projects that are all solving specific business and technical requirements. This creates one of the major SOA challenges.

SOA Governance

SOA without Governance will lead to new application silos. Creating fragile point-to-point XML and Web Services-based integration. Leading to a new set of legacy applications or Web Services with a lack of visibility, policy, enforcement, and business performance. This all will lead to failing SOA initiatives.

Partnership with SOA Software

SOA Software, a leading Integrated SOA Governance Automation vendor, positioned in the leaders' quadrant of the
"Magic Quadrant for Integrated SOA Governance Technology Sets, 2007" (1) report. SOA Software is recognized by its customers for providing enterprise-class, platform-independent, integrated SOA Governance automation solutions.

The company's products provide comprehensive, centralized SOA planning, lifecycle and operational governance automation through a single integrated solution. SOA Software is focused exclusively on enterprise SOA, delivering a fully integrated set of standards-based, high-performance products.

SOA Software's recent entry into the Microsoft Business Process Alliance provided for CODit a real opportunity to partner with SOA Software. Together with the competences of CODit on BPM/EAI and SOA Architecture, the availability of our Collaborative Platform and Dashboard allows CODit to provide customers with a 100% SOA solution.

CODit can offer customers:

• Project analysis for SOA migration, implementation
• Design SOA policies on Security, Service Design, Service modelling
• Work with partners to help shape enforcement ( Customers, Suppliers, Logistics)
• Implement SOA Software: Design Time
• Establish runtime SLAs
• Implement SOA Software : Runtime