In recent years, governance approaches for Service-oriented Architectures (SOA) have been intensively discussed. Due to the complexity and heterogeneity of SOA systems, governance is considered crucial to successful long-time operation and control of a SOA. However, a consensus concerning a uniform approach has not been achieved yet. This article gives an overview of current proposals, and introduces a first approach to structuring SOA Governance.
The remainder of this contribution is structured as follows. After a short introduction on SOA and its characteristics as a background, we outline the motivation for SOA Governance and discuss new challenges of SOA systems concerning control and supervision. Next, we provide a comparing literature review of SOA Governance approaches, identify major common concepts, and introduce a generic governance model for SOA. A summary and outlook on future work concludes the article.