The benefits of SOA adoption are compelling: lower development costs with rapid deployment of new functionality that reuses existing code, increased flexibility from improved responsiveness to business needs, and reduced maintenance costs by freeing staff to work on innovative new initiatives.
Yet as the number of services grows within an organization committed to SOA, realizing those benefits becomes difficult without policies and procedures. Governance ensures the effective and efficient use of SOA, enabling you to achieve goals for both design-time and run-time:
Design-time/Lifecycle governance focuses on the entire lifecycle of an application, service, or artifact, including design, development, testing, deployment, maintenance, and retirement.
Run-time/Operational governance ensures that when the services are deployed, appropriate security, auditing, and logging policies are enforced and performance-based SLAs are met.
TIBCO's integrated SOA governance portfolio lets you implement end-to-end governance across the entire service lifecycle. With integrated registry, repository, policy, and service management infrastructure, the portfolio simplifies publishing, discovery, reuse, and modification of services, which increases return on investment and delivers on the promise of SOA