HHG's IBM SmartCloud Managed SOA Governance Services
For the last 4 years, deploying a consistent team of consultants, Haddon Hill Group has been implementing WebSphere Service Registry and Repository (WSRR)-centric SOA Governance projects for many WebSphere customers.
We see customers struggle with:
- Explosive growth in their services inventory with little management or on-boarding discipline
- Managing service versioning and rollout of new services and policies
- Providing a framework around which service consumers and providers can establish Service Level Agreements
- Provisioning and maintaining a technology platform to support SOA Governance requirements
Moreover, our customers are looking for a lower operating cost model around which to build out the foundation of a larger SOA Governance discipline.
HHG is applying our years of successful implementation experience, participation in WSRR Early Access Programs, and private cloud delivery capabilities to offer full IBM SmartCloud Enterprise-based implementation, customization and ongoing support for customers on a "Bring your Own License" basis. IBM SmartCloud Enterprise is an agile, cloud-computing, infrastructure as a service (IaaS), designed to provide rapid access to security-rich, enterprise-class virtual server environments; well-suited for development and test activities and other dynamic workloads. As part of our Managed SOA Governance Services offering, HHG utilizes IBM's SmartCloud Enterprise infrastructure to quickly provision the WSRR platform, by creating an enablement profile customized to match an enterprise's vision for design-time SOA Governance.
This service offering is suitable for both large divisions of global enterprises who need a practical, working SOA Governance solution quickly and do not have the resources or time for a large customization effort, as well as for organizations just beginning with SOA Governance, who will need a more limited implementation but will require more education, coaching and knowledge transfer.
As part of a typical Managed SOA Governance Services engagement, HHG will:
- Conduct training workshops on SOA Governance and the WSRR platform.
- Simplify and customize the Governance Enablement Profile in support of governance for all the common artifacts of an enterprise SOA infrastructure.
- Provide a consistent set of SOA Governance guidelines for processes which map to the state-transitions decisions of the customized WSRR instance.
- Provide customized artifact storage within the WSRR instance of key governance artifacts for customers who do not have an alternative repository for these artifacts.
- Create step-by-step procedures and users manual with complete screen shots, which match both the WSRR customization as well as the governance processes for immediate implementation.
- Provide a package of custom WSRR reports to support the SOA governance processes.
- Coach customers on registration of existing services artifacts.
- Review the customer's existing standards and architecture to insure that the customer's SOA governance objectives can be met during the course of artifact creation.
At the end of the engagement, with an additional services contract, customers can choose to have HHG continue to manage the platform on their behalf. Additionally, customers can extend this implementation into testing/development environments for WebSphere integration runtime infrastructure via our IBM SmartCloud Managed SOA Policy Test/Development Environment service.