Patent Document ID: 8595043
Application ID: 13596490
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for providing a service-oriented architecture governance model, the method comprising: a server deploying computer-readable program code to a client computer system via a network link within a network environment, wherein the client computer system comprises a processing unit, a computer readable memory and a computer readable storage device; and storing the deployed computer-readable program code on the client computer system computer readable storage device; and wherein the computer readable program code comprises instructions that when executed by the client computer system processing unit via the client computer system computer readable memory, configures the client computer system processing unit to: calibrate and map each of a plurality of governance framework dimensions of a service-oriented architecture to each of a plurality of governance evolution elements; perform a maturity and capability assessment for a selected attribute of a plurality of attributes of one of the service-oriented architecture governance evolution elements as a function of the mapping in response to a capability assessment template input that selects the attribute and one of the mapped governance framework dimensions, a lifecycle stage, a governance evolution element attribute, and a plurality of user determination values, wherein the template input comprises: a user selection of the one governance framework dimension from a plurality of presented choices of each of the mapped governance framework dimensions, wherein the user selection categorizes the maturity and capability assessment with respect to the selected one governance framework dimension and the selected governance evolution element attribute; a user selection of the lifecycle stage from a plurality of different presented lifecycle stage choices that are each selectable for assessing capability of the selected governance evolution element attribute; a user assignment of the selected governance evolution element attribute to one or more of a plurality of different presented governance focus components that are each determinative of a different governance enablement approach; and the plurality of user determination values populated within one each of a current state field and a desired state field of a plurality of different presented governance evolution state choices; and generate a maturity-based and capability-based governance model for the service-oriented architecture as a function of the performed maturity and capability assessment.