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NEW WHITEPAPER HIGHLIGHTS CRITICAL ROLE OF GOVERNANCE IN SOAs

LogicLibrary, a provider of software asset management tools, announced the availability of a new white paper by the noted IT market intelligence firm ZapThink LLC. The report, titled "SOA Governance: IT Governance in the Context of Service Orientation," is an in-depth examination of how service-oriented architecture (SOA) governance can provide the visibility and control necessary for information technology (IT) governance, while also increasing the business agility organizations require.

Today's enterprises face growing regulatory pressures with legislation such as the Sarbanes Oxley Act, the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, HIPAA, the Patriot Act and others. As a result, corporate and IT governance are becoming progressively more pervasive as a means for providing the compliance infrastructure necessary to satisfy this list of complex regulations. The critical link between corporate and IT governance is a service-oriented architecture. Proper SOA governance will be the primary way that companies can establish principles for the control of their organizations.

"In today's business climate of cutthroat competition, complex regulations and constant change, corporate governance has risen to the top of many executive's minds, and IT governance, in particular, is a critical concern," said Jason Bloomberg, senior analyst at ZapThink LLC and author of the report. "Fortunately, the emergence of SOA promises to provide a flexible structure for IT governance. Enterprise implementations of SOA can thus enable agile IT infrastructures that also provide the necessary visibility and control for an effective IT governance strategy."

SOAs have become mainstream in the past year due to their ability to provide business agility and flexibility through integration, productivity and reuse. With SOA enablement on the rise, IT groups are beginning to address SOA governance as a means of controlling what and how services located within an SOA are deployed. Guiding principles of SOA as outlined in this report include reuse, compliance to standards, identification and categorization of services, service provisioning and delivery, and service monitoring and tracking.

LogicLibrary's flagship product Logidex serves as an SOA governance platform. The industry's premier software development asset (SDA) management solution, Logidex maps relationships among SDAs and the business processes they support, giving enterprises the ability to manage and reuse assets throughout the complete application lifecycle. This gives organizations the capability to properly manage assets in SOA initiatives, while at the same time reducing costs, streamlining projects and improving productivity.

"The earlier a company begins to implement SOA governance, the sooner they will be able to apply the agility and flexibility of SOA to their broader IT needs," states Alan Himler, vice president of marketing and product management at LogicLibrary. "Metadata are essential to the visibility needed for IT governance, and LogicLibrary provides the industry's leading asset management tool and metadata repository. With its unrivaled ability to manage and control the design and development of software services, Logidex is ideally suited for long-term use as an enterprise's SOA governance platform."