1. SOA maturity of your organization
1.1 Can you describe the SOA level of maturity of your organization using the terminology developed in the HP SOA capability model ?
1.2 Has there been a significant change in your maturity level in the last 5 years
1.3 If there has been a significant change, can you identify the main drivers for the change
2. Industry (vertical) standards
2.1 Please indicate any standards you are currently using
2.2 Please list any additional standards that you are using that do not appear in the list above
3. Governance
3.1 Service inventory management
3.2 Please add any additional information on the management of service contracts (that is not captured above)
3.3 Data governance
4. Identity and access management
4.1 Which of the following capabilities are exposed (either entirely, or partially) as service endpoints?
4.2 Please explain in greater detail the key components of your Enterprise IAM solution and how your services inter-operate with IAM
5. SOA design principles
5. SOA design principles
5.1 Have your SOA projects been informed by high-level architectural artifacts?
5.2 Do you version your service contracts during the design process?
5.3 How do you document (publish) your service contracts?
5.4 Do you publish meta-data about each service (assumptions, intended use, glossaries)?
5.5 Which message architectures do you use?
6. Technologies
6.1 Are you using an integrated commercial SOA suite
6.2 Are you using one or more of te following service-bus applications
6.3 Please indicate which enterrpsie services are connected via the service bus
6.4 Which of the following technology standards are being used in your SOA implemenation?
6.5 Which of the following security related standards are you using?
6.6 How would you describe the message topology of your SOA
6.7 Has the introduction of any SOA related technologies altered your enterprise technology architecture?
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