Once a company has completed initial SOA projects, the number of deployed services increases such that the key question is no longer how to build services, but rather how to efficiently govern the development and operation of services on a large scale. At this point companies reach a SOA maturity level where they want to take a systematic approach to achieving better ROI as well as improve business agility.

To ensure our client’s SOA is progressing along a path of increasing maturity and positive ROI, we include governance best practices in our SOA Project Management offering. We typically help our clients with:

• Define and implement the complete service life cycle governance, covering all aspects including service design time and run time.
• Assist with the selection of technologies for implementing SOA governance.
• Help establish a SOA governance practice as part of a SOA Center of Excellence.
• Analyze existing and planned projects in terms of the governance guidelines that will be defined and asses the impact on these projects.