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I only went to one session yesterday, as I spent a lot of time talking to our customers and potential customers as well as three hours with a a potential new hire. I have to say, is there is *huge* interest in our ESB - Neuron. It's a real world need - people are seeing a big gap in the product line and it fills it. Its that simple.

Here are rough notes on a good session I attended on SOA Governance.

SOA Governance and the Microsoft Ecosystem

 Governance Types

1. Corp Governance
2. IT Governance
3. SOX, Codes/Rules of Conduct
4. Enterprise Architecture
5. IT Portfolio Mgmt
6. Project Governance
7. SOA Governance (specialization of existing governance)

     - Design time
     - Runtime

• We want to look at Governance along the entire Service Lifecycle
• Map lifecycle to MSF

Microsoft Philosophy

1. MSBA across Envisioning and planning - id key capabilities - great entry point
2. MOF across Runtime Governance across Run time Governance
3. MSF overall end to end guidance - baked into VS
4. VS 2005 across 4 out of 5
5. Windows Server (UDDI, etc)
6. SCOM 2007 across last
7. .NET 3 (WCF) across all 5
8. Partners - SOA Software and AmberPoint
9. Overall Portfolio and Project Management

 SOA Design Time Governance

• Applies across Envisioning, Planning and Developing
• Design time includes capabilities

 Microsoft Approach

• SOA Roadmap Management
  • Microsoft Project Portfolio Server= Service Capability Determination      -
• MSBA- Shared Service ID MSBA (formerly Microsoft Motion)
  • Looks at it from capability rather than process value
  • Create Service Model from capabilities
  • MCS offering
  • Heat Maps

Shared Services Identification

• Collection/Hierarchy of Services
• MSBA adds value by adding whole layer of metrics
• helps business value of reuse of the service Service Dev
• Lots of challenges
  • Versioning
  • Change Managemen
• VSTS - Design time governance comprehensive support
  • Validate design - ITpro can lay out physical with governance rules
  • VSTS Supports the SOA Service Life Cycle-
    • Bake in Patterns and Practices
    • enforce good patterns and practices Service
• Pub and Discovery- Windows UDDI Server
  • Part of Win2K3     
• Pub and discover Partner Interop
  • With Service Registry/Repository vendors like Systinet, SOA Software
  • He is showing Systinet examples not SOA Governance - so which one do they favor??? 
• SOA Runtime Governance System Center
  • Service Monitoring - point to endpoint, set up rule to check result System Center
• Asset Mgmt- Actual Config
  • Modeling assets in the CMDB - SDL model created via MOF/ITFL processes
  • Auditing and recon between actual config and desired config Discovery
  • Base capability only AmberPoint and BizTalk

AmberPoint provides visibility