SOA Governance

SOA Governance

The purpose of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) governance is to ensure that the investments in SOA deployments made by the organization deliver the anticipated benefits both in the short term and throughout their entire lifetime. SOA is intended to be a long-term architecture, so it is reasonable to expect that some of the resources being deployed now will be in use for decades.

SOA governance therefore entails design-time procedures and best practices that deliver services with the best business fit, and with due consideration to the reuse of services by subsequent projects.

Key issues:

• SOA cannot be planned and implemented by IT on its own, but must be a collaborative effort between business and IT.
• Technology-driven SOA projects are unlikely to enjoy the degree of reuse that SOA should enable, due to the lack of emphasis on designing services around business fit.
• Although supporting technologies will be needed, it is more important to put in place the organizational structure and to ensure the right people are put in the right roles.
• The resources dedicated to SOA governance need to be kept proportionate to the extent of the SOA deployment, the rate of change experienced, and the degree of risk to which it is exposed.

Links for 2007-08-18

Interesting links gathered from all over the Internet

Russell Christopher's Semi-Useful BI Musings : Publishing Reporting Services reports to MOSS - Now that lots of folks are happily playing around with SSRS/MOSS integration, it's important to understand exactly how you publish the things to MOSS via Business Intelligence Studio. You still use the same dialogs you are used to, but plug different v (tags: sharepoint reporting ssrs)

Joel Oleson's SharePoint Land : Step by Step Instructions for Publishing from Access 2007 to a SharePoint Site - This was in a hands on lab to show some of the cool integration and new features in the new 2007 Microsoft Office system. On one hand, imagine how cool it would be to get all those MDB files that have been having a hard time finding a home finally findin (tags: sharepoint access)

Roadmap for publishing an Excel workbook as "one version of the truth" - SharePoint Server - Microsoft Office Online - Creating an Excel workbook that contains "one version of the truth" requires a collaborative effort between a SharePoint site administrator, a workbook author, and various end users. The following article is a roadmap that describes the basic process of p (tags: sharepoint)

Antivirus Solutions for MOSS - Jeff Holliday's SharePoint Blog - As of right now, there do not seem to be too many Antivirus solutions on the market for MOSS. Symantec and McAfee seem to be dragging their feet on releasing versions that support SharePoint 2007. Their existing products, Symantec Antivirus for SharePoi (tags: sharepoint antivirus)

Chapter 3: Planning Redundancy and Scaling the SharePoint Environment - Network World - This chapter focuses on techniques and information necessary to scale a SharePoint implementation to organizations of varying sizes. Specific components that can be scaled are described and contrasted. High-redundancy options such as clustering and Networ (tags: sharepoint database management)

Sharepoint Tips and Tricks : SharePoint Site Moves, Database Moves and Balancing Growth - SharePoint adoption is at an all time high right now with the release of MOSS 2007 and WSS 3.0, this is wonderful for your investment but can be a nightmare for a poorly planned deployment that was not ready for massive growth. Certain operational tasks (tags: sharepoint split database sqlserver balancing)

Database Mirroring in SharePoint 2007 for Disaster Recovery (tags: sharepoint MOSS2007)

SharePoint Governance and Manageability - View Release - This tool automates splitting large Windows Sharepoint Services Databases into several smaller Databases. Based on an input, the process locks, backups, deletes and restores a SiteCollection. Supports WSS2, no mention of WSS3 (tags: sharepoint)