Oracle SOA Governance

Comprehensive Service Oriented Architecture SOA Governance Capabilities from Oracle. Service Oriented Architecture SOA governance is the key to realizing your SOA goals. It defines and enforces the set of policies, procedures, roles, and responsibilities within your enterprise to guide your SOA-related behavior and deliverables. Proper Service Oriented Architecture SOA governance assures an organization will realize the important benefits of SOA—increased business agility, protection of IT investments, and greater business and IT alignment.

ORACLE SOA GOVERNANCE CAPABILITIES
Oracle Fusion Middleware's SOA Service Oriented Architecture offerings provides a comprehensive set of capabilities to define and enforce SOA governance:

Identify, categorize, version, and publish services
Provide service change notifications to developers and applications
Securely view available services within the enterprise and govern the provisioning of new services
Centrally manage security polices and service-level agreements, including authentication, authorization and encryption policies
Centrally manage service-level agreements for performance, guaranteed response time, and high availability and failover on services
Out-of-the-box functionality to implement common governance requirements for business process auditing and canonical data models; and
Metadata repository services to capture and track service interactions and store SOA artifacts and metadata for Web services, service orchestrations and policies.

COMPONENTS
Oracle SOA Suite—A comprehensive SOA offering that includes policy definition and enforcement agents with metadata repository services and APIs for governing service interactions and orchestrations
Oracle Service Registry—A secure UDDI v3-compliant enterprise registry for service lifecycle management
Oracle JDeveloper—An integrated SOA development environment with design-time governance features for service development

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