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c. SOA Governance and Best Practices

Many organizations are in the process of deploying Service Oriented Architectures (SOA). The reasons are obvious: SOA brings many benefits to organizations like increased flexibility and agility, cost reduction, speed of development, etc. However, to really gain the full benefits of SOA, it is essential to take care of the Governance of the Service Oriented Architecture. Without good Governance, the implementation of a Service Oriented Architecture will just lead to lack of reuse, increased support costs, non-compliancy etc. instead of the promised benefits.

Description

The objective of this course is to explain what ‘SOA Governance’ is, why it is so important and how you can implement it in a straightforward and controlled way. We introduce the students into the various elements of SOA Governance including tools, processes, people and policies. Many best practices are explained through practical examples.

Objectives

Students completing this course will be able to:
• Understand what SOA Governance is and how it should be embedded in your IT-infrastructure and your IT organization
• Understand the various aspects of SOA Governance
• Understand the impact of SOA Governance on your organization and processes
• Understand the benefits of implementing SOA Governance
• Select the adequate SOA Governance tools for your own particular situation
• Follow best practices

Audience

• Enterprise Architects
• IT Architects
• IT Managers
• Operation Managers

Content

The course contains the following topics:
• What is SOA Governance?
SOA Governance related to IT Governance
SOA Governance related to your SOA Infrastructure
• SOA Governance Center, people and organization
• SOA Management, Quality and Governance
• SOA Governance Processes
• SOA Governance Policies, run-time, design-time?
• SOA Governance Tools, vendor overview
• SOA Governance examples and best practices

Course material

The course material provided includes all presentation materials, notes and additional handouts. The different topics will be supported by the latest information available; real cases will be discussed.

Speaker

Kees Neven is co-founder of Enable-U. Enable-U provides leading edge SOA solutions and expertise to make sure that the implementation of your Service Oriented Architecture will be successful and will deliver the business value you expected.
Before starting Enable-U, Kees was in charge of the leading SOA Governance vendor Systinet in Northern Europe as Managing Director. He was responsible for building up and running the pre and post-sales operation, managing the explosive growth of Systinet’ solutions in Northern Europe. Kees Neven has over 16 years of experience in the Software industry, the last 7 years focused on SOA and SOA Governance. He worked for companies like webMethods and Cisco and has been referenced frequently in leading Dutch IT magazines such as Computable and recently in SYS-CON Media.

Related Seminars and Workshops

• IT Governance: Trends, Frameworks and Methodologies (1 day),
• Standardising IT Governance: ISO 38500 (1 day),
• CobiT and IT Governance – The essentials (1 day)

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