system by combining service and governance lifecycle with policies [15].
Clearly, these frameworks do not completely cover mentioned elements especially SOA roadmap, governance
performance assessment metrics and monitor and evaluate processes. On the other hand, COBIT completely addresses
some elements such as governance structure and evaluation processes but service lifecycle, service portfolio management,
SOA roadmap and SOA maturity have not been included. We have used characteristics and governance aspects of
COBIT to propose a new SOA governance framework. We will describe briefly our idea in the next section