SOA Implementation Methodology: What to look for?

SOA Implementation Methodology: What to look for? Organizations planning to implement SOA should implementation methodologies which covers end-to-end implementation of the SOA roadmap. It should help organization to select the appropriate approach for SAO implementation and set up the IT goal. The methodology should provide visibility of challenges, risks and ROI.  It should be classified into phases:  • Formalizing the roadmap, domain model and goal model  • Providing the component, message, service and information specifications  • Providing the final implementation based upon standards  SOA Governance framework:  Enterprises SOA governance framework should be based upon Open-Source platform. Framework refers to the standards and policies that govern the design, build and implementation of an SOA solution and the policies that must be enforces during runtime. Organizations should also indentify complete testing framework for Unit Testing, Functional Testing, Integrated Testing and Process-level Testing to ensure a high quality of service.