SOA and BPM Conference Wednesday - SOA Governance and the Microsoft Ecosystem

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

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)

• 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

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

• 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