This whitepaper discusses service oriented architecture governance - what is it? why is it important? how to create soa governance structures that work?
"…organizations that adopt an SOA governance discipline increase their efficiency, improve their business responsiveness and realize their SOA business case sooner—and with less risk." "Service-oriented architecture is clearly the gateway to step improvements in IT solution development, but it requires more than just a new approach to how IT works with business users. It calls for a radically different approach to IT governance.