Managing Service Oriented Architectures with Application Lifecycle Management

"With software project failures continuing to plague IT organizations, management needs to improve control over departmental activities ranging from project planning, project execution, development and IT operations. Yet it is difficult to achieve this control if the data is scattered throughout dozens of diverse tools supported by disparate processes.

Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) is an approach to bridge these challenges by enabling IT to be more adaptable to the business. This white paper discusses the key management challenges surrounding SOA adoption and how application lifecycle management (ALM) can provide a comprehensive management platform for SOA transformation, adoption and ongoing administration, ultimately reducing the complexity of SOA deployments. "