Patent ID: 8769483
Filing Date: 2014-07-01
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method of automating a governance process of optimizing a portfolio of services in a governed Service Oriented Architecture (‘SOA’), the method comprising: modeling the governance process of optimizing a portfolio of services in the governed SOA, the modeled governance process comprising: determining whether a collection of service artifacts matches one or more service artifacts stored in a service registry; if no service artifacts stored in the service registry match the collection of service artifacts, initiating creation of a service in accordance with the collection of service artifacts; if one or more service artifacts stored in the service registry match the collection of service artifacts: selecting, in dependence upon predefined action selection criteria, a service administration action to perform; obtaining approval of the selected service administration action; and initiating the selected service administration action; and generating, in dependence upon the modeled governance process, one or more automation modules, each automation module comprising a module of computer program instructions that, when executed by a computer processor, supports performance of one or more steps of the modeled governance process.