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SOA Technical Architecture Strategies and Tactics

This solution provides a comprehensive and realistic roadmap for deciding the technical components an organization uses to build a SOA.  The scope includes the elements of the SOA Reference Model and the relationships among the model elements, the 'implementable' blueprints (BPEL, compensation, etc.) that comprise a concrete SOA, and the WS-* specifications and options implemented in both homegrown and vendor-provided solutions.

Deliverables:
Identification of all SOA technical architectures necessary for SOA implementation within the framework of the client's technical infrastructure and which will enable achievement of business benefits.

Target Audience:
Key IT architecture staff of organizations creating their own SOA infrastructure

Execution: Consulting

SOA Design and Development

This solution, designed for clients implementing their first SOAs, includes the planning, design and creation of SOA structures, such as system services and policies, as well as selection of the applicable WS-* technologies, e.g.; WS-Security, WS-Policy, WS- Reliable Message, WS-Addressing.

Deliverables:
Identification of SOA technical components necessary for SOA implementation within the framework of the client's technical infrastructure, SOA architectures and which will enable achievement of business benefits.

Target Audience:
Key IT technical staff of organizations creating their own SOA infrastructure

Execution: Consulting

W S-* Selection

SOA Architecture Validation

This solution, designed for clients who have implemented one or more SOAs, consists of a technical review of the architecture components to verify that the architecture meets its stated technical and business goals. It also makes recommendations for tuning and improvement, focusing on architecture components and techniques that have emerged since the SOA implementation. Clients may repeat this solution on a periodic basis to ensure architecture currency and optimization.

Deliverables:

• Variance report focused on impact of architecture decisions on business/technical projected goals verses benefits realized
• Summary report of new SOA architecture trends and SOA technical components that have emerged since the SOA implementation
• Recommendations for changes in architectures and SOA technical components to enable benefit realization

Target Audience:
Key IT architecture staff of organizations creating their own SOA infrastructure

Execution: Consulting

SOA Web Services Security

This solution helps clients use the message-based security protocols and models that W3C, OASIS and IEEE have developed specifically to support SOA/Web Services. This solution includes education and assistance in understanding and implementing standards-based security approaches in SOA frameworks of major vendors, such as IBM, Microsoft, Sun, BEA and Oracle. The education component of this solution focuses on illustrating vital SOA distributed security protocols and standards, describing the role of each one, clarifying when to use each one, evaluating strengths and limitations of each one, and discussing needs for more advanced security specifications and protocols.

Objectives:

• Define and name the challenges of distributed security in a SOA/Web Services environment
• Know the capabilities and limits of various security models
• How to secure a SOA application using industry-standard techniques and protocols
• How to architect and design an enterprise-wide distributed security system that can evolve as the enterprise and its applications evolve
• How to select and make cost-effective use of SOA security tools
• How to reduce corporate risk factors via a secure SOA that can safely handle high-value transactions
• How to take a risk-management approach that balances costs, vulnerability and impacts •  How to avoid disastrous distributed security choices

Target Audience:
Key IT architecture staff of organizations vitally concerned about the security of their SOA based systems

Execution: Workshop (two days), in conjunction with consulting

Building SOA Relationships

This solution addresses the challenges of building and sustaining the relationships between IT and the business areas required for successful SOA implementation across organization and political boundaries.

Objectives:

• How to communicate so that there is common understanding
• How to influence others
• How to negotiate issues resulting in increased trust and collaboration
• How to deal with conflict
• How to deal with resistance
• How to come to a consensus decision in which all parties buy-in on the decision

Target Audience:
Leaders and personnel from both IT and business areas affected by SOA projects

Execution: Workshop: 2 Days in conjunction with mentoring

SOA Governance

This solution is a working session that establishes the processes for determining the ownership of each service collection; setting service direction; deciding service scope, licensing, and level of availability for business and system service collections. It also specifies the composition and selection process for the Service Collection Governors (Service Collection 'Board of Directors'), and how the Governors delegate operational governance to the Service Stewards.

Objectives/Deliverables:

• Process for determining service collection ownership
• Process for determining scope, licensing, availability and direction for both system and business service collections
• Composition and personnel selection process for the Service Collection Governors
• Delegation and communication protocols for Service Collection Governors interface with Service Stewards

Target Audience:
Service Collection Governors

Execution: Working Session: Two days

Operational SOA Governance and Stewardship

This solution is a working session that establishes the organizational entity that has day-to-day responsibility (stewardship) for the administration and management of the services, as delegated by the Service Collection Governors to the Service Stewards.

Objectives/Deliverables:

• Organization placement and reporting relationships
• Service delivery, service performance and Service Level Agreements
• Stewardship roles and responsibilities, e.g.; monitoring; reporting; and maintenance of the services and associated metadata, directories, repositories and registries

Target Audience:
Service Collection Governors and Stewards

Execution: Workshop: One day

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