Patent ID: 8744887
Filing Date: 2014-06-03
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method for managing a service oriented architecture (SOA) lifecycle organization change process comprising: retrieving a proposed organization-wide change stored in a computer memory; defining an SOA lifecycle to provide development, governance and management processes based on the proposed change; identifying, when available, a reusable plurality of SOA shared services in a services portfolio registry that address the proposed change, the identifying including searching a services registry to identify at least one SOA shared service that addresses the proposed change; identifying all affected stakeholders having a responsibility in the proposed change by identifying each of the following: each stakeholder having a responsibility in implementing the proposed change across the organization, each affected stakeholder having a responsibility in managing the proposed change across the organization, and each stakeholder having a responsibility in carrying out the proposed change across the organization; determining impacts of the proposed change on the affected stakeholders; developing, by a computing device, a service deployment plan and communication plan related to the proposed change; implementing the plurality of SOA shared services, the service deployment plan, and the communication plan that addresses the proposed change; deploying the plurality of SOA shared services to implement the proposed change; and managing the proposed change after deployment of the plurality of SOA shared services by maintaining the deployed proposed change across the organization during a transition through a lifecycle for each of the deployed plurality of SOA shared services implementing the proposed change and as new SOA services are introduced after the proposed change is deployed.