SOA Governance – Why You Should Care
It is becoming increasingly critical for global companies to reduce the cost of quickly bringing new products and services to market to stay competitive. The immediate need is for new business applications that can flexibly address these business demands. Packaged applications of the past have proven to be inflexible. Enter “composite applications” – applications that are created by stitching together both new and existing components. Composite applications promise us quicker delivery and cost effectiveness since they leverage existing components. They are also much more tailored to meet specific business goals.
As we shift towards generating more and more composite applications, there is a need to know what components are available for reuse. Reusable components include both SOA-based (e.g., Web services, business processes, business rules) and non-SOA based (documents, graphics, XML files) assets. You cannot reuse what you cannot find. Here is where a SOA Governance & Management solution such as CentraSite becomes critical.
CentraSite serves as a central store for all the reusable components created within and outside organizations. The benefits lie in being able to easily search for and reuse these assets to compose new applications and to quickly analyze the impact of changes made to assets that are being used within multiple applications. Reports that detail the usage of assets within your organization helps you govern business change more effectively. It provides you with a clear picture of :
- Who is using these assets.
- How often are the assets being used.
- How these assets are being used.
A SOA Governance and Management Solution such as CentraSite, thus, provides the necessary governance framework to ensure that new applications can be composed rapidly while not jeopardizing the ones that are in existence.
