This whitepaper underscores the fact that SOA Governance is no side issue – but rather the key factor to overall SOA and business success! Effective SOA Governance supports your IT organization, aligns business and IT, and provides the foundation for compliance management. Business benefits from your SOA initiative can be monitored and optimized, providing you with traceable business goals and the appropriate service implementations and operations. A well founded and executed SOA Governance avoids the “chaotic growth” of an enterprise’s SOA and allows an organization to supervise and manage the entire SOA lifecycle.