SOA Governance and Service Lifecycle Management

There are two key phases to SOA governance:

• Establishing the SOA governance framework focuses on decision rights and organizational change
• Executing the service lifecycle management based on the SOA governance framework

The SOA Governance and Management Method (SGMM) describes, in detail, best practices for implementing SOA governance and its supporting mechanisms and processes. SGMM is available as a plug-in with IBM Rational Method Composer.

SGMM is also a service offering from IBM Global Business Services (GBS).

IBM offers the following SOA governance enabling tools:

• IBM® Rational® Method Composer
• IBM WebSphere Service Registry and Repository
• IBM Rational Asset Manager
• IBM WebSphere Service Registry and Repository – Advanced Lifecycle Edition
• IBM Tivoli Change and Configuration Management Database

Service lifecycle management is a service-oriented lifecycle framework that establishes the service as the focal point of SOA governance, informing software development, deployment at each phase.

IBM offers the following solutions for each phase of the service lifecycle.

Model

• IBM Rational Team Concert
• IBM Telelogic System Architect®

Assemble

• IBM Rational RequisitePro®
• IBM Rational Clearcase®
• IBM Rational Clearquest®
• IBM Rational Build Forge®
• IBM Rational Software Architect for WebSphere Software

Deploy

• IBM Rational Tester for SOA Quality
• IBM Rational Performance Tester Extension for SOA Quality
• IBM Rational Quality Manager
• IBM Rational Policy Tester

Manage

• IBM WebSphere® Datapower SOA Appliance
• IBM Rational Appscan®
• IBM Tivoli® Composite Application Manager for SOA