SOA Governance Resource Center
Product Literature
- WebLayers Center data sheet
- WebLayers Center Automate Mainframe Governance data sheet
- WebLayers Channel Partner Program overview
- WebLayers Company overview
- WebLayers JumpStart Program overview
- WebLayers Review Center data sheet
- WebLayers & BEA solution overview
- WebLayers & IBM solution overview
- WebLayers & Oracle solution overview
White Papers
- The Explosive Demand for SOA Expertise
A business overview describing the opportunity for systems integrators and how they can develop the skills and differentiation necessary to capitalize on channel opportunities in the rapidly growing SOA market. - Automating the SOA Center of Excellence
Key considerations for establishing and automating the people, processes and policies that are needed to ensure success with SOA. - The Cornerstones of SOA Governance: Policies, Registries and Repositories
A joint IBM and WebLayers white paper which describes a use case for policy management combined with registries/repositories and other infrastructure across the SOA lifecycle. - Introduction to SOA Governance
Provides a high-level overview of the requirements to achieve SOA governance. - The SOA Forum Survey on Governance
Read how the leading practitioners of SOA are finding success with automated governance. - ZapThink on WebLayers: Achieving the Benefits of SOA through Governance
ZapThink puts the spotlight on WebLayers in this product overview. - The Truth About SOA Governance
Dispels the myths and confusion about SOA Governance
Webcasts
- New! - Thomson Financial: "Establishing a SOA Center of Excellence: 10 Valuable Lessons Learned"
Ian Koenig, Chief Architect for Thomson Financial, addresses the SOA Forum on the formation of the Thomson SOA Center of Excellence and how they identified the importance of SOA Governance in design-time. This Webcast is exclusive to the SOA Forum. Click Here to Join the SOA Forum. SOA Forum Members Click Here - Policy-based SOA Governance for Rational - Strategies for Effective SOA Development
Learn how to automate the design and deployment of a governance process that will guide development teams, as you transition to SOA. Highlighted are WebLayers Center integration across the Rational Software Delivery platform with particular emphasis on use with IBM Rational Asset Manager. - GE Money's Strategic Approach to Ensuring SOA Delivers
Jon Eisenstein, CTO, GE Money describes how they achieved dramatic results with SOA by focusing first on governing the services being designed and built. - Making SOA Governance Real: Policy Management and Integrated Registries
Featuring Guy Loewy, CTO of WebLayers and Sunil Murthy, Product Manager at IBM - InfoWorld Webcast: The Five Steps to Successful SOA Governance
Featuring Guy Loewy, CTO of WebLayers and Dan Hynes, Principal Product Manager at Oracle Corporation - The Burton Group: A Reference Architecture for SOA Governance Infrastructure
Anne Thomas Manes delivers a detailed assessment to the SOA Forum - InfoWorld Webcast: Lack of SOA Governance is an Endorsement for Failure
Featuring Dan Potter, VP Marketing at WebLayers and William A. Brown, SOA Governance Chief Architect at IBM
Podcasts
- GE Money's Strategic Approach to Ensuring SOA Delivers
Jon Eistnstein, CTO, GE Money describes how they achieved dramatic results with SOA by focusing first on governing the services being designed and built. - Policy-based SOA Governance for Rational - Strategies for Effective SOA Development
Learn how to automate the design and deployment of a governance process that will guide development teams, as you transition to SOA. Highlighted are WebLayers Center integration across the Rational Software Delivery platform with particular emphasis on use with IBM Rational Asset Manager. - InfoWorld Webcast: The Five Steps to Successful SOA Governance
Featuring Guy Loewy, CTO of WebLayers and Dan Hynes, Principal Product Manager at Oracle Corporation - InfoWorld Webcast: Lack of SOA Governance is an Endorsement for Failure
Featuring Dan Potter, VP Marketing at WebLayers and William A. Brown, SOA Governance Chief Architect at IBM - Making SOA Governance Real: Policy Management and Integrated Registries
Featuring Guy Loewy, CTO of WebLayers and Sunil Murthy, Product Manager at IBM
Newsletter
Product Demo
- Take a tour of the new WebLayers Center version 4.0
- SOA Risk Assessment
WebLayers is offering a complimentary program to help you uncover and assess the risk of your existing SOA services and artifacts.
Blog
- SOA Governance & Policy Management
Hear the latest from the WebLayers team
SOA Forum Roundtables
The SOA Forum is an exclusive roundtable of IT executives and enterprise architects from Fortune 500 and government agencies who are mandated with the challenging mission of creating a Service Oriented Architecture. The SOA Forum today boasts over 1,500 members and is recognized as the largest independent SOA organization. Membership is required to access the following roundtables.
How SOA Governance Fits Within IBM's SOA Foundation
Steve Graham, Senior Technical Staff Member, IBM SOA Foundation Architecture
This presentation will review the concepts introduced by IBM, including IBM's take on the definition for SOA Governance, how SOA Governance fits within IT Governance, and how SOA Governance fits in with IBM's overall model of SOA, called SOA Foundation. We further overview the SOA Governance and Management Method.
SOA Governance
Christopher Crowhurst, Vice President and Chief Architect for Thomson Learning
This presentation will deal with the Thomson view of Governance and policy management and its short and long-term implications for our company.
A SOA Maturity Model
Benjamin Moreland, Director of Foundation Services, The Hartford
This presentation describes The Hartford’s SOA Maturity Model that was developed as both a descriptive model to describe The Hartford’s SOA journey as well as a prescriptive model, providing insight into the next stages and efforts to move closer to the ultimate goal.
SOA or S.O.S: The Agility Promise Behind SOA
Dr. Yoav Intrator, Senior Vice President and CTO of Dovel Technologies
During his session, Dr. Intrator will address some major challenges associated with adopting SOA, and the actions that need to be taken to meet and mitigate those challenges.
Optimal Web Service Design A Method for Designing Enterprise Web Services
Beth Gold-Bernstein, VP Strategic Services, ebizQ
During this session, Beth Gold-Bernstein will present an event-driven method for designing Web services and optimizing an enterprise SOA.
DoD going SOA - the road towards Netcentric Operation
Rob Vietmeyer, Chief Engineer of DISA Net-Centric Enterprise Services (NCES)
Rob outlined the DoD Net-Centric Transformation and its objective for moving to SOA. Rob will further investigate the work done so far, the achievements, the pilot programs and lessons learned and will provide the forum with the vi sion going forward and the road ahead.
SOA: Are You Thinking Big Enough
Randy Heffner, Vice President in Forrester's Application Development and Infrastructure Research Group
This session examined ways that architects can and should position the vision of SOA for their organizations. It examined SOA's impact on IT architecture, IT deliverables, application platforms, and architecture strategy.
Bank of America - Real World Experiences with Web Services
Kim Kazmaier, Technical Design Architect in Bank of America.
Learn about Bank of America’s approach to XML, Web Services and SOA. Hear about specific SOA initiatives and their results and momentum, lessons learned, plans going forward, and the challenges on the road ahead.
The Real Time Enterprise - SOA & Event Driven
Yefim Natis is a vice president and distinguished analyst in Gartner Research.
The presentation covered Gartner’s views on Service Oriented Architecture and Event Driven Enterprise.
A Pragmatic Approach to SOA
CSFB Head of Enterprise Application R&D and Co-Chair of the Enterprise Web Services Group.
CSFB shared with the Forum members his vision and field experience in leading an SOA initiative in one of the largest IT organizations in the world.
The Role of UDDI in Enterprise SOA
Anne Thomas Manes, Research Director, Burton Group
If you are using Web Services in your company or just thinking about your SOA strategy, UDDI is one of the things that you should consider adding to the soup (not SOAP...). UDDI is a controversial concept and solution, and companies are still struggling with its role in their architecture.
Web Services Silver Bullet or Leading Edge Legacy
Wachovia Web Services Working Group leader
Presentation and detailed discussion of Wachovia's challenges and use of SOA.
Extreme Integration
Sabre Holdings
In the presentation Sabre described its unique and challenging operational environment, and discussed several of the strategic and tactical decisions with regard to Integration in general and Web Services/XML in particular - messaging, performance, security, repositories, governance, management, legacy extensions etc.
AT&T - Web Services Experience
AT&T
AT&T presents its EAI challenges and direction. AT&T further described its business and technical requirements, its vision and practical path that it is taking in order to achieve the "Concept of One". The discussion covered many topics including Architectural Governance, Guidelines, Best Practices and the role of Center of Excellence in practical implementation of SOA.
Stepping Stones to SOA
Merrill Lynch
Hear Merrill Lynch’s views on Web Services and SOA strategy, directions and challenges. The roundtable discussion covered variety of technical and architectural issues including Web Services Intermediaries (Management), Repositories, the role of UDDI, Enterprise Policy considerations, scenarios for use of Web Services, the role of WS in legacy extensions.