Integrated Service Oriented Architecture Governance with ITIL ® v3.0

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Integrated Service Oriented Architecture Governance with ITIL® v3.0 Jaka Sembiring*1, Fitri Susanti2 School of Electrical Engineering and Informatics, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Jl. Ganesha 10, Bandung 40132, Indonesia School of Applied Science, Telkom University, Jl. Telekomunikasi Terusan Buah Batu, Bandung 40257, Indonesia *1

jaka@itb.ac.id; 2fitri.susanti@tass.telkomuniversity.ac.id

Abstract Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) governance is essential for a company who implements SOA to gain maximum benefit. One of major failures in SOA implementation is the lack of SOA governance. There are apparent weaknesses in SOA governance, such as no systematic process to manage service reuse; no guidance to determine what services should be created; no system to validate the sustainability of design and implementation result; and no complete guidance for change management system. In this paper, we propose a new SOA governance framework where we create the structure of SOA governance based on Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL®) v3.0. We deduce a SOA governance lifecycle and elements to analyse the strength and weakness of several existing SOA governance. Then we propose a new structure of SOA lifecycle and elements, where we map the structure with ITIL® v3.0. The result is a new concept of SOA governance which is adapted to the objectives of business in terms of optimization of service reuse for business agility. We elaborate the decision model, rules implemented, roles and responsibility, metrics, and procedure in SOA governance from ITIL® perspectives. Keywords ITIL v3.0; SOA; SOA Governance; SOA Governance Lifecycle

Introduction It is widely understood that Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is developed to increase technology efficiency and business agility (Bieberstein, N., et. al., 2008). This is achieved through service reuse which is a key issue in SOA. Service reuse is based on the concept of service, service interoperability, and loose coupling (Josuittis, N. M., 2007). With service reuse, the implementation of services can be effective, efficient and business agility can be achieved. It is possible for companies to gain benefits from SOA implementation, such as business agility, flexibility and service reusability (Van de Berg, M., et. al., 2007). However, (Heffner, R., 2009) has shown that upon implementing SOA, not many companies succeed in achieving maximum benefit where only around 25% get the maximum benefits, 36% get some benefits, 20% does not get the benefits and would not continue using SOA until the SOA failure problems were found, 17% could not determine the result of implementation, and 1% of companies did not get the benefit at all. Some failures of SOA implementation have been identified such as: (i) the implementation approach dominated by a technological perspective, hardly any view from a business perspective; (ii) not properly handling the major changes as a result of SOA implementation; (iii) failing to implement SOA governance; and (iv) the service architecture design driven by IT vendor (Kavis, M., 2008). Others have shown that those SOA failures are related to the lack of SOA governance (Ott., C., et.al., 2008). The research result from (Janiesch, C., et. al., 2009) shows that SOA governance is an important factor for SOA implementation. But in his research, (Braun, C., 2007) has pointed out that there are still apparent weaknesses in SOA governance, such as failing to provide a systematic process to manage service reuse, no guidance to determine what services should be created, no system to validate the suitability of designing and implementation result, and no complete guidance of change management. As a result, there are various altenatives for SOA governance models such as from (Niemann, M., et. al., 2008), and companies like IBM, HP or Oracle. But these alternatives still possess deficiencies mentioned by (Braun, C., 2007), so that there is still some room for improvement for the model. In this paper, we propose a new model of SOA governance by taking advantage of interconnection between SOA 16 International Journal of Advances in Management Science, Vol. 4 No. 1, August 2015 2169‐7558/15/01 016‐10, © 2015 DEStech Publications, Inc. doi: 10.12783/ijams.2015.0401.02


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