Governing Architecture Of A Service Oriented Architecture

• US 20100138250A1
• Filed: 12/02/2008
• Published: 06/03/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 12/02/2008
• Status: Active Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Brown, William A., Holley, Kerrie L., Moore, Garrison A., Tegan, William J.
• Application Number:
  US12/326,354
• Publication Number:
  US 20100138250A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/7
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/063 Operations research, analysis or management

Abstract

Governing architecture of a Service Oriented Architecture (‘SOA’) including identifying business requirements for the SOA; establishing an architecture management framework; and creating an SOA reference architecture in dependence upon the architecture management framework and the identified business requirements.

Claims

1. A method of governing architecture of a Service Oriented Architecture (‘

SOA’

), the method comprising;

identifying business requirements for the SOA;

establishing an architecture management framework; and

creating an SOA reference architecture in dependence upon the architecture management framework and the identified business requirements.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising determining whether the SOA reference architecture complies with predetermined architectural policies for the SOA.

3. The method of claim 1 further comprising refining the SOA reference architecture if the SOA reference architecture does not comply with predetermined architectural policies for the SOA.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein refining the SOA reference architecture further comprises refining the identified business requirements for the SOA.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein refining the SOA reference architecture further comprises refining the architecture management framework.

6. The method of claim 1 further comprising creating a transition plan for migrating the current architecture for the SOA to the defined SOA reference architecture if the SOA reference architecture complies with predetermined architectural policies for the SOA.

7. The method of claim 6 further comprising creating an architectural baseline for the SOA in dependence upon the transition plan and the defined SOA reference architecture.

8. A system of governing architecture of a Service Oriented Architecture (‘

SOA’

), the system comprising;

means for identifying business requirements for the SOA;

means for establishing an architecture management framework; and

means for creating an SOA reference architecture in dependence upon the architecture management framework and the identified business requirements.

9. The system of claim 8 further comprising means for determining whether the SOA reference architecture complies with predetermined architectural policies for the SOA.

10. The system of claim 8 further comprising means for refining the SOA reference architecture if the SOA reference architecture does not comply with predetermined architectural policies for the SOA.

11. The system of claim 10 wherein means for refining the SOA reference architecture further comprises refining the identified business requirements for the SOA.

12. The system of claim 10 wherein means for refining the SOA reference architecture further comprises refining the architecture management framework.

13. The system of claim 8 further comprising means for creating a transition plan for migrating the current architecture for the SOA to the defined SOA reference architecture if the SOA reference architecture complies with predetermined architectural policies for the SOA.

14. The system of claim 13 further comprising means for creating an architectural baseline for the SOA in dependence upon the transition plan and the defined SOA reference architecture.

15. A service of governing architecture of a Service Oriented Architecture (‘

SOA’

), the service comprising creating an SOA reference architecture in dependence upon the architecture management framework and the identified business requirements.

16. The service of claim 15 further comprising refining the SOA reference architecture if the SOA reference architecture does not comply with predetermined architectural policies for the SOA.

17. The service of claim 15 further comprising creating a transition plan for migrating the current architecture for the SOA to the defined SOA reference architecture if the SOA reference architecture complies with predetermined architectural policies for the SOA.

18. The service of claim 17 further comprising creating an architectural baseline for the SOA in dependence upon the transition plan and the defined SOA reference architecture.