Calling all intrepid SOA pioneers...  It's time to bask in the glow of the wisdom we've gained from cutting our teeth on SOA and share what we've learned more broadly to organizations looking at building out modern applications. 

SOA brought us some major challenges -- many more moving parts to manage, dependencies built into the architectural fabric, the task of changing traditional silo'd organizations into flexible teams willing to share...but it also brought us architectural agility, interoperability, and better business-IT alignment.  And, it also brought us the realization that governance is not a bad thing but can provide the flexible guidance system to help IT navigate the people, process and technology changes required by a new architectural approach.

We've been tracking the benefits of different aspects of governance as applied to SOA by way of reaching out and working with our key customers and partners and what we have been seeing is that not only are our customers having success with SOA governance but also with applying fundamental best practices and approaches of governance more broadly, across their application environments.

As we work with these customers and internally, we are seeing, more and more, the direct benefit of applying automated governance more broadly across the lifecycle of applications and we've started to document these findings in a new white paper, called "Application Governance in Action".  You can download this white paper off of HP's website here.

In this white paper, you'll read about how governance can help align Application teams and operations teams to reduce the time, effort and number of errors that occur from the transition between testing/staging and application deployment.  You can also read about how application governance can help keep distributed development  teams coding and implementing based on desired architectural patterns and using underlying infrastructure that is in compliance with technical and support needs.   The main goal of this white paper is to get you thinking.  If SOA govenrance is proven to reduce the time, effort and accelerate adoption of SOA projects, what can it do for your complete modern application landscape?  

Let's discuss this topic.. what do you think about the role of governance in the larger application lifecycle?