You Can't Buy SOA Governance

Customers and software vendors have now a brand new keyword: SOA Governance! That is, if you listen to vendors, about the set of practices and (mainly!) products which help the enterprise to manage complex ecosystem of technical and business services, with their related meta-data. You can have a look at this Wikipedia definition for a concise definition of SOA-Governance.

That sounds good, isn't it? But usually when I listen to both customers and software vendors I find their ideas about governance quite misleading. Few points of mine:

1. SOA governance is about a conceptual organizational and operational framework which aims to align IT governance with business analysis procedures: people first, then technicalities.
2. You can't buy SOA, you can't buy SOA Governance. It is an organizational process, if you don't change the way you operate your IT projects you cannot achieve neither SOA nor any governance;
3. You need to build a set of SOA practices together with a governance strategy, and the human factor here is more important than any possible product: there is no magical SOA-in-a-box product.
4. You can't have a SOA without governance, you can't build a SOA governance strategy without an established service-oriented analysis process (because you end having nothing to govern...)

IT is broken: we clearly see this simple and true fact daily, but I hardly find organizations able to recognize the fact that they need to reconcile their IT operations with their business needs first through organizational changes. They too often just try to buy the next magical box and hope that plugging it into their IT department it will fix problems.

Again and as usual: lot of money, few successes and SOA is becoming another abused bad word.

The Fluxology Office is Now a Sun Belgium's Services Partner

The Fluxology Office s.r.l., being committed to grow a stable and fruitful relationship with Sun Microsystems in all EMEA regions, has established a partnership with Sun Belgium. An important part of the relationship will be to develop expertise and provide feedback about the incoming new Java CAPS release, which will represent a quantum leap in terms of EAI, SOA and complex events processing tools.
Even if features of new product are still undisclosed (not to say secret), hopefully it will be the very first fully Sun-engineered release after the SeeBeyond acquisition in 2005, and it will be fully compliant with the latest JEE 5 specifications.
Here at Fluxology we think Sun is going to offer the most complete and technologically advanced application and integration JEE development platform.