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Enterprise-level applications must support robust and reliable management features to be able to comply with business requirements, government legislation, service level agreements (SLAs), and customer and trading partner expectations. Run-time governance focuses specifically on the challenges of, and requirements for, successfully running service-oriented architecture (SOA)–based systems that meet these requirements. The quality of service delivered by a business system is the predominant factor that defines its success or failure.
SOA challenges
Businesses deploying SOA-based systems into production face a number of challenges, including the following:
Minimizing the cost of maintenance and upgrades, and allowing incremental updates
Allowing rapid change through business process management and composition tools
End-to-end security; this includes trust and protection of the privacy of message senders, receivers, and content
Identifying, managing, and repairing exceptions as they occur
Decoupling of services and consumers
Measuring and proving the business value of SOA applications to offset cost concerns
Control (governance) of the proliferation of duplicate or otherwise unnecessary services
Facilitating the identification of the appropriate services required by potential users to reduce initial development cost
Managing the life cycle of services to minimize the cost and risk of ongoing maintenance and change
Simplifying the actual usage of appropriate services (decoupling location, transport, policies, standards, and messaging styles)
Reporting facilities used to identify who is using which service, where, and why
Next steps
The Microsoft BizTalk ESB Toolkit supports integration with two third-party run-time governance systems:
Sentinet SOA Resolver and BizTalk Server Extensions. For more information on how Sentinet extends Microsoft BizTalk ESB Toolkit capabilities, see Extending BizTalk ESB Toolkit Capabilities with Sentinet.
SOA BizTalk Management Point from SOA Software, Inc.
AmberPoint BizTalk Nano Agent from AmberPoint, Inc.