Governance has moved beyond the hype. More and more organizations see their initiatives gaining momentum and delivering on their promises if strong Governance was established early in the adoption lifecycle. As of 2010 leading COI's12 agree that greater benefits are within reach when using Governance, however Governance must be established and managed by the business. This is not always the case with in organizations and there can be a struggle on how this can be achieved successfully. There is also a growing awareness (within leading communities) that without a solid foundation of operational processes business performance and business strategic governance that new emerging technology methodologies are not captured holistically into the enterprise, thus extending the internal problems further.

The CTGS SOA Governance Assessment Process facilitates the assessment of an organization's current and desired future states of service integration and flexibility. The Assessment described in this white paper gives practical guidance to the use of the model: it is the combination of industry experience, lessons learned and best practices in Governance development in tangible form.

CTGS has been engaged by numerous companies within a broad spectrum of industries and in various stages of SOA, Cloud and other Enterprise level adoptions. Using our model, numerous threats and opportunities were unveiled which were the basis of quantifying the steps needed to achieve greater maturity and Return on Investment.

Applying this Model will lead an enterprise towards a more agile, flexible organization; it results in a roadmap showing how to get from the current to the desired situation. The roadmap will show you a step-by-step approach on how to achieve your desired state.

CTGS has tailored the assessment based on our experience. This leads to a highly effective process within a short period of time. This approach obviously also leads to financial benefits through ROI Governance Model™.