Semantic SOA Governance: Enabling Data Discovery, Reuse, and Interoperability

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Semantic SOA Governance: Enabling Data Discovery, Reuse, and Interoperability

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1. Overview

Semantic SOA Governance is a methodology ensuring that business missions are mapped accurately to the Services Oriented Infrastructure and that the services developed are reusable, thus reducing the time and cost of building new applications. Additionally, it facilitates deep analysis of the IT infrastructure in terms of the business operations and enterprise architecture. Two technologies, Semantics and Business Process Management (BPM), when combined with collaboration capabilities produce a dramatic new information management platform incorporating Operational Governance capabilities.

Many companies are transitioning from the acquisition of monolithic, client-server systems to the acquisition of capabilities expressed as services. The Information Technology paradigm supporting this transition is named Services Oriented Architecture (SOA). Most large enterprises attempting this transformation encounter significant difficulties. The return on investment that was promised has not materialized. At least two fundamental issues must be addressed in the deployment of the SOA:

1. The “business mission” and the IT mission must be aligned. This problem is solved by providing a framework where the two groups, business and IT, can collaborate over the governance processes and business processes that are fundamental to achieving success. It also requires the capability for the community of stakeholders to collaborate over the meaning of the terms and data in the domain using formal semantics (RDF/OWL). The combined approach of using formal semantics and Business Process Modeling enables the data and services to be understood in the context of the business processes that are using the data.

2. Once the services are agreed on by the stakeholders using the formal semantics of the domain, services can be discovered in a way that aligns precisely with the business requirements. This capability lays the foundation for the dynamic discovery and invocation of services needed to enable ...

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