Architect Center: SOA Governance

Effective SOA governance keeps the people, processes, and technologies that comprise the SOA ecosystem moving in the right direction, toward an agile, evolving architecture that drives innovation and sustains business value. The resources presented here will help you stay ahead of the SOA governance curve.

Blog: The world of SOA Governance according to Oracle - Introducing the Enterprise Repository
Most of what is said about SOA Governance and management of (the life cycle of) services and service related artefacts, really applies to all software components meant to last longer than say three months, especially those we aspire to reuse.
posted Sep 5, 2008

Blog: Take Baby Steps for Balanced SOA Governance (SOA Governance@work)
In taking an incremental approach to avoiding "overweight" SOA governance, it's important to apply the right governance model.
posted Sep 4, 2008

Technical Article: Transforming BPMN into BPEL: Why and How
When transforming a BPMN model into an executable BPEL process, it's important to keep the semantic differences between BPMN and BPEL in mind.
posted Sep 2, 2008

Podcast: ebizQ SOA Visionaries: Mike Stamback
ebizQ's David Linthicum interviews Oracle SOA Governance expert Mike Stamback on the role of technology in effective SOA Governance.
posted Aug 19, 2008

Blog: Big Picture Thinking: Do SOA Governance Tools Matter?
In a recent podcast with Dave Linthicum, Mike Stamback, director of product marketing at Oracle (and formerly part of BEA), talked about this shift in thinking about SOA governance.
posted Aug 19, 2008

Blog: The Cost of Reuse (SOA Governance@work)
It's not that organizations aren't building enough services, it's that organizations aren't encouraging the creation of enough reusable services.
posted Aug 7, 2008