Structuring SOA Governance

Abstract

Companies’ IT Systems are confronted with constantly changing market conditions, new competitive threats and a growing number of legal regulations. The service-oriented architecture (SOA) paradigm provides a promising way to address these challenges at the level of a company’s IT infrastructure. These challenges, as well as the management of the newly introduced complexity and heterogeneity, are targeted by SOA Governance approaches. In recent years, a number of concrete frameworks for SOA Governance addressing these issues have been proposed. There is no holistic approach considering all proposed elements, consolidating them in order to form a universally applicable model. In this contribution, we motivate SOA Governance, investigate and compare different approaches, identify common concepts, and derive a generic model for governance of Service-oriented Architectures.

CommonGOV: A consolidate approach for governance of service-oriented architecture

“…SOA promotes several gains to organizations as highlighted by [1][2][3]. Among these advantages, we emphasize lower development and maintenance costs, short delivery times, greater flexibility and stability of solutions.…”

“…When the approach goes from one division (considered in the pilot project) to multiple ones new challenges rise, making difficult to accomplish the aimed benefits. Schepers et al [5] and Niemann et al [3] present the following main challenges:…”

“…Service governance is pointed by several authors [3], [6], [7] as the best approach to meet such requirements. Janiesch et al [7] defines SOA Governance as the establishment of structures, processes, policies and metrics appropriate to ensure the adoption, implementation, operation and evolution of a Service-Oriented Architecture aligned with business objectives and compliant with laws, regulations and best practices.…”

“…The academy [3], [6], [7], technology vendors [8][9][10][11] and consortiums [4] have already proposed models for SOA Governance. However, these approaches address distinct aspects, and are described in different level of detail.…”

Popperian Falsifiability on Enterprise Architecture Is Suitable from a Scientific Standpoint?

“…It possesses several detail levels and representations which allow the alignment of these with business processes, making it possible for stakeholders to visualize all of the organization's information and scenarios (Bischof et al, 2015;Niemann, Miede, Wolfgang, Repp & Steinmetz, 2010); it also includes the integrated form of the organizations' structure and its processes, applications, systems and techniques (Lankhorst, 2009;Iyer & Gottlieb, 2004). Tamm et al (2011) place that many are the positive results that come from proper EA utilization.…”