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On April 23rd, 2009, a panel of experts answered your questions
on establishing the right level of governance, a
critical aspect of any service-oriented architecture (SOA) project. How do you
get started? What are the minimum set of definitions that have to exist even
for a small effort? And how do you grow from there? This panel of experts has
extensively used WebSphere Service Registry and Repository as an enabler for
SOA governance. For more information about SOA, see the
WebSphere SOA zone.
Andre Tost is a Senior Technical Staff Member in
IBM Software Services
for WebSphere,
where he helps IBM's customers establish service-oriented architectures.
His special focus is on Web services technology. Before his current
assignment, he spent ten years in various partner enablement, development,
and architecture roles in IBM software development, most recently for the
WebSphere Business Development group. Originally from Germany, he now
lives and works in Rochester, Minnesota. In his spare time, he likes to
spend time with his family and play and watch soccer whenever possible.
Duncan Clark is an IT Architect in IBM United Kingdom,
specializing in the governance aspects of WebSphere Service Registry and
Repository in the SOA lifecycle. For the last ten years, he has been
working in distributed service oriented systems, ranging from defense
simulations through knowledge management systems to collaborative portals.
Duncan has been developing service-oriented solutions supporting
governance and compliance in the life sciences and registry markets for
the last three years.
Arnauld Desprets is a Senior Certified IT Architect with
IBM Software Services for
WebSphere
in France. Arnauld has over 10 years of consulting with companies all over
Europe. He has over eight years of experience with WebSphere Application
Server, and now specializes in SOA and Web services, especially in
WS-Security. His latest interest is on the role of governance and the
registry, including WebSphere Service Registry and Repository in a SOA.
Michael Ellis is a Solution Architect in
IBM Software Services for
WebSphere
and lives in Ottawa, Canada. He specializes in Web services, SOA
architecture, and SOA governance. Michael helps IBM customers to develop SOA
reference architectures and to implement solutions based on them. He
currently holds the post of Consulting Practice Lead for WebSphere Service
Registry and Repository worldwide.
Laura Olson is a Certified Consulting IT Specialist at IBM in
Rochester, Minnesota. She specializes in helping customers reach the full
potential of their SOA by enabling SOA governance. Previously, she was the
lead portal architect for the Advanced Web Technologies group in IBM where
she architected and created the "My Software Support" portal. She likes to
spend her spare time with her family and working on her private pilot's
license.
