As a CEO, line-of-business manager, CIO, CTO, VP of development or business analyst, you may be part of the executive team responsible for establishing, maintaining and enhancing the SOA governance framework. You may also help decide what areas of the business would benefit the most from composite applications.
IBM can help you with the following core products and services:
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Develop an SOA governance plan.
Define the approach to creating, discovering and launching services within a clearly articulated decision framework that (1) describes what to do; (2) tells how to do it; (3) assigns who should do it; and (4) details how it should be measured.
Deploy the agreed-on governance framework.
Enhance the effectiveness of the governance approach as required.
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IBM Rational SOA Governance and Management Method services offering - a knowledgeable, highly trained IBM Global Services team helps you map requirements, policies, procedures and regulations to support business plans based on SOA. The IBM team can also help with the necessary cultural changes and provide guidance on creating an SOA center of excellence.
IBM Rational Method Composer plug-in for SOA governance - helps you create and deploy your established governance approach by selecting only the policies and process components you need. Once defined in Rational Method Composer software, the customized processes automatically drive project frameworks within the IBM Rational Portfolio Manager software.
You’re also able to use the plug-in to rapidly amend governance processes if issues arise during the execution of defined policies. Changes are automatically tracked and communicated via the Rational Method Composer software.
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Align organizational and line-of-business needs to prioritize SOA investments.
Evaluate the risks and rewards of competing SOA initiatives.
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IBM WebSphere® Business Modeler software - enables you to create as-is models of current business processes and simulate improvements along multiple variables such as time, cost and resources. The resulting to-be models prescribe how new, improved processes should work. They also drive requirements.
The IBM Rational Software Architect application reads the Unified Modeling Language (UML) created by the WebSphere Business Modeler software to help in designing and defining requirements for the services and composite applications that will enable the new or improved processes.
IBM Rational Portfolio Manager software - enables real-time monitoring of SOA projects across the software portfolio to make sure they are following the established governance policies and meeting established performance metrics. A key part of the IBM Rational Software Delivery Platform, Rational Portfolio Manager software provides a governance dashboard to help you quickly prioritize and invest in IT projects based on alignment with business goals; evaluate SOA project-team dependencies and availability; forecast demand for service creation; and better understand the cost of SOA development, operations and maintenance.
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