Integrated SOA Governance Self Assessment

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If you are involved in planning or implementing an enterprise class Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), you may be hearing many different messages about what’s important, what’s not, and where you should invest your time and resources for the optimal result. In some cases, the information you receive may be confusing and contradictory to what you know about SOA, or even your common sense.

In experience gained by planning and implementing Integrated SOA Governance Automation solutions at some of the world’s largest companies, we have found that there is often misunderstanding surrounding the meaning and requirements for sound Integrated SOA Governance. Integrated SOA Governance is the collection of architectural, policy, and security related practices and products required to deploy and govern an SOA. Where a lot of smart people get mixed up, though, is when it comes to assessing an organization’s true level of need for a sophisticated Integrated SOA Governance solution.

The importance of investing in a robust Integrated SOA Governance solution will depend on many different factors, related mostly to the size and complexity of your organization, the number of Web services you are running or planning to deploy, and so on.

The following Integrated SOA Governance Self-Assessment is a quantitative, objective diagnostic tool that will help you evaluate your organization’s level of need for a robust Integrated SOA Governance Automation solution.



You will receive two scores:
1) Your Organizational Size and Complexity Score
2) Your SOA Scope and Complexity Score

Using your scores, you can place your organization one of four quadrants in the chart shown above. Depending on the outcome of your self-assessment, your organization may or may not have a strong incentive to justify the investment in a robust SOA Infrastructure solution. While it might seem unusual for a software company to suggest that you don't need a robust solution, we believe that we can add value to your SOA planning efforts by providing you with an objective self-assessment.

Please fill out the questions and contact form below. Upon submission, you will receive an email containing your SOA Infrastructure Self-Assessment scores as well as instructions for downloading our white papers, data sheets, recorded webinars, and other resources. We can only honor requests that contain a valid name, company name, and email address. Unfortunately, we cannot process requests for a Yahoo, Hotmail, AOL, gmail, or mail.com account. Thank you for your understanding.

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Salutation:	--None--Mr. Ms. Mrs. Dr. Prof.
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What is your role in your organization?:	--None--Technology Executive Security Management Architect Software Developer Business Management Other
How do you envision using Web services and the SOA? (You may hold 'ctrl' to select more than one answer):	Consumer Application Web services Enterprise Application Integration Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) Financial Services app. Human Resources Portal Other Portal-Mainframe integration Secure Partner trading integration Security of external XML transactions Self-service portal Service-Oriented Architecture Fabric Supply Chain Management App
What is your time frame for implementing an SOA?:	--None--Now 3-6 Months 6-12 Months In the research phase Not sure
Other comments - please let us know what your goals are for your SOA:
Registration Source (You do not need to select this menu)	SOA Self Assessment Survey
How did you hear about SOA Software?:	--None--Google Other Search Engine Banner Ad Word of Mouth Conference Presentation News Article Other
SOA Infrastructure Self-Assessment Survey
1 - Is your company committed to SOA?	--None--Not committed Investigating Somewhat committed Committed
2 - How many Web Services do you have in production today?	--None--None 1 to 10 11 to 25 26 to 50 More than 50
3 - How many Web Services do you expect to have in production in 2 years time?	--None--None 1 to 10 11 to 25 26 to 50 More than 50
4 - Do you have a formal architectural review process?	--None--No Peer review Informal departmental review Formal review Strictly enforced
5 - What proportion of your own critical enterprise applications do you develop internally, vs buy as packaged apps such as SAP or Oracle eBusiness Suite?	--None--0% 1% to 10% 11% to 25% 26% to 50% >50%
6 - What portion of your IT organization is well-versed in SOA and Web services?	--None--0% 1% to 10% 11% to 25% 26% to 50% > 50%
7 - How many of your Web services connect to outside companies?	--None--None 1 to 3 1 to 10 11 to 20 More than 20
8 - How important is it to your company to expose Mainframe applications as Web services?	--None--Not important Somewhat important Important Very important Critical
9 - How many Mainframe applications do you currently expose as Web services?	--None--None 1 to 3 1 to 10 11 to 20 More than 20
10 - Is reliability, performance, and capacity management of production Web services an important issue for your company?	--None--Not important Somewhat important Important Very important Critical
11 - To what extent is security, auditing, and provisioning of Web services a critical issue for your organization?	--None--Not important Somewhat important Important Very important Critical
12 - How important to your company is auditing and visibility into service use and performance?	--None--Not important Somewhat important Important Very important Critical
13 - What is the size of your IT organization? (in terms of personnel, both full time and contract)	--None--< 10 10 to 100 101 to 500 501 to 2500 > 2500
14 - What is the size of you company in terms of revenue?	--None--<$10M $10M to $100M $100M to $500M $500M to $2.5Bn >$10Bn
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