Governance is critical to the success of an SOA. In order to enforce an SOA governance strategy, an organization must implement an effective policy management system. Without such a system, businesses are unable to ensure interoperability and quality across an SOA, as well as encourage and support policy adoption across multiple constituents.

This white paper outlines the results of a survey regarding SOA governance deployment plans and concerns. Explore the state of SOA governance, as well as areas where SOA governance continues to require improvements. Gain insight into the amount of manual effort required in today's approaches to this loosely-coupled architecture and the risk resulting from that manual effort. Discover the significant dissatisfaction experienced when a registry/repository is deployed without policy management and automated enforcement.