 | Level: Advanced Contributors: IBM 13 Jan 2006 Understand potential SOA compliance guidelines through a starter set of baseline criteria that defines three levels of conformance: basic, intermediate, and advanced. These compliance criteria will mature with further development and acceptance of SOA standardization guidelines.
As businesses increasingly adopt Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) methods in order to realize higher returns, more focus on SOA compliance will be required to ensure process flow between business services. This whitepaper proposes a potential baseline starter set of SOA compliance criteria, based on the thoughts of senior IBM technical leaders who approach SOA from many different perspectives. It's apparent that there is not yet a complete, simple answer for the elements of SOA compliance. However, measuring SOA compliance against an evolving baseline allows for better business/IT alignment and faster business execution. And, presumably, the higher the level of compliance attainment, the greater the possibility of higher business return. This work has the potential to evolve into a more well-defined set of business and IT criteria that enable business functions to be seamlessly designed, developed, deployed, and managed within an enterprise's established services lifecycle model. IBM intends to develop SOA compliance criteria with further detail as business and IT governance models mature.
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