The standard introduction to an article defining anything is to say that there are as many definitions as there are people doing the defining. But in the case of SOA governance, that does not appear to be true. The thought leaders contributing to this article, while taking different looks at the topic, are all pretty much in agreement about the nature of governance and how to implement it.

SOA governance from an analyst’s perspective


Jason Bloomberg, Senior Analyst, ZapThink LLC

Enterprise or corporate governance is the ability for executive management to create policies that apply to their organizations, communicate those policies, provide employees with the tools they need to comply with those policies, enforce those policies, obtain visibility into levels of compliance and mitigate any deviations from corporate policy.

SOA governance has two related, but different definitions: first, how to provide for governance of SOA initiatives within the context of IT and second, how the transition to service-oriented approaches affects the broader area of corporate IT governance. IT governance describes how people entrusted with the authority over some aspect of the business will consider IT in their supervision, monitoring, control and direction of that business entity. IT governance is an integral part of enterprise governance and consists of the leadership and organizational structures and processes that ensure that the organization’s IT sustains and extends the organization’s strategies and objectives.
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