Learn how to create sustainable differentiation by harnessing
the power of smarter technology. The following online trials
will enable you to develop the skills and experience necessary
to demonstrate agility using IBM software in order to achieve
specific business outcomes. After completing the trials, you
will be able to apply your newfound knowledge directly to your
daily business pursuits. Build a foundation that supports your
success, at no risk to your production environment.
SOA governance is an extension of IT governance that focuses on the lifecycle of services that remain active within and across an organization. The function of SOA governance is to:
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Establish decision rights for the development, deployment, and management of new
services
- Monitor and report decisions for communicating governance results.
SOA governance supplies the decision rights, processes, and policies for those activities.
After a service is deployed, there must be management aspects in place to control and
monitor the service.
SOA represents a change in architecture, one that has
implications for IT. A key difference is the role of reusable
services, which allow organizations to publish and share logic
and data. Software systems can leverage the shared data
effectively, thereby reducing costs and improving agility.
This new degree of freedom in building or extending
applications imposes a new requirement for verifying the
capabilities of these services. The IBM Rational Tester for
SOA Quality extends the capabilities of the IBM Rational
Performance Tester to accommodate for the effect of SOA on the
process of software system verification. In specific,
Rational Tester for SOA Quality helps you extend automated
testing capabilities to the SOA services in your
infrastructure.
Find out more about the products, sample product applications and tutorials that have been included with the SOA Sandbox for Process in the Learn section of the SOA Sandbox info center.
Find out more about the hands-on exercises for the SOA Sandbox in the Play section of the SOA Sandbox info center.
Accelerate your adoption through in-depth sample scenarios captured in technical papers, solution architecture guides, technical presentations, and recorded demos in the Adopt section of the SOA Sandbox info center.
No formal support is available for the sandbox. However, you can browse the how-to resources, including tutorials, articles, demos, production documentation, webcasts, forums, a searchable knowledge database, and more.
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