SOA Governance

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Discussion area for both design-time and run-time governance of SOA applications.
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I've evaluated 3 SOA Governance Registry and Repository packages thus far...

by Sunny Wear

Jul 9, 2009

In my evaluation, I've looked at Mule Galaxy, AG Software CentraSite and IBM WSRR with Rational Asset Manager. I have to say that the decision of which RR is right for you really depends on your requirements. Just having to manage 100s or 1000s or services is not enough of a requirement. The maturity of your service model could also dictate which product is best for you.
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    Michael Levin

    Sunny,

    How are you going about doing this trade study? Many of us do trade studies from time to time and would like to know an tips ou have to pass along. Also, more info on managing 1000's of services would be very interesting. Thanks in advance!

    Best,

    Mike

    Jul 9, 2009

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    Sunny Wear

    Hi Mike,
    Thank you for your reply. Basically, I have a list of requirements and I am doing POCs on each product. We will need to manage a couple of hundred services, so a robust governance package is necessary. Here are my requirements of must-haves and importants:

    Must Haves
    1. Reliability/High Availability
    2. Development Integration
    3. Security
    4. Scalability
    5. Accountability
    6. Ease-of-use
    7. Runtime updates and debugging
    8. SOA Platform Compatibility
    9. Vendor support
    10. Vendor Viability
    11. Product Viability
    12. Service Discovery Process
    13. Certification workflow
    14. Runtime Engine Integration
    15. Mediation/Management Capability
    16. Business Service Asset Management
    17. Business Service Cataloging and Taxonomy
    18. API Ease and Interoperability


    1.2 Important
    1. Monitoring capabilities
    2. Metrics
    3. Web-based UI

    --Sunny

    Jul 10, 2009