SOA Audit Checklist

Business case for SOA

Catalyst – integration work products

Definition of SOA

Strategic Roadmap

Generic Vendors profiles

Vendor demonstrations

Deployment and governance

Case study

Communication methods

Pattern choice between different styles

Standards

Strategic roadmap

Linkage of appropriate design artefacts with SOA delivery

Programme deployment management

Automation

Vendor partnering

Web services and event management design

Best practice deployment of SOA models

• SOA Artefacts

• Business processes / services layer

• Channel design

• Multi-channel strategy planning

• Common services design and roadmaps

• Multi-channel deployment strategies

• SOA design for multi-channel services

• Service catalogue

• Process-service design

• Performance engineering (NFRs)

• Service catalogue

• Specific services and message reusable module specification

• Service to message pattern links

• Service profiles (Interface contracts)

• Use case design including NFRs

• Metrics quantification of performance of service / apis / processes

• Interactions process-service rules model

• Event management

• Routing, Messaging Management to support business process/service interactions

• Domain model data matching

• Portioning model – source-target links

• Transformation model

• Process-service orchestraction model

• Logical interaction model

• Component and interface logic rules location model

• Automation / Configuration Layer

• Patterns Library

• Reference Architecture

• Industry-related patterns

• Technology Patterns

• Architecture Patterns

• Business patterns

• Channel patterns

• Integration patterns

• API protocol patterns

• Message patterns

• Data transformation patterns

• Service Contract patterns

• Analysis Patterns

• Process Patterns

• Functional Patterns

• Service Patterns

• Design Patterns

• Module component Patterns

• Integration Service Module Patterns

• Data Patterns

• Enterprise Data patterns

• Domain Data patterns

• Data exchange patterns

• Data Use patterns (DWH)

• Run-time Patterns

• Run-time patterns

• Message API patterns

• Data patterns

• Process patterns

• Integration Patterns

• Service Patterns

• Model Automation & Version Management

• BPM Tools

• UML / Analysis Model generators

• XSD generators

• WSDL generators

• Design Automation

• Configuration management tools

• Integration environment management tools

• API / Message Design Layer

• Message design

• Gateway and reuse design

• Canonical design

• Migration & Maintenance

• API design

• Configuration

• Exposure data model

• Data Layer

• Meta Information Model

• Conceptual model

• Logical domain model

• Physical model

• Semantic ontology

• Industry standards views

• Data model domain views

• Data Model dictionary

• Platform Layer

• Data architecture model

• Domain Partitioning rules

• Orchestration and Integration planning

• Logical component and interface architecture – logical message views

• Domain partitioning service patterns (Process to service functionals)

• Service partitioning run-time patterns (ESB, Hub, etc)

• Message patterns component and interface log

• Governance and controls Layer

• Platform roadmaps and Policies

• Policy

• Roles & responsibilities

• Governance

• Standards

• Enterprise Service Management (ESM) & Performance management

• Operations

• SLA/ ITIL

• Security

• Maintenance & migration

• Configuration management

• Policy definition for SOA

• Policy governance processes

• Organisational design

• Conceptual view

• Strategy

• Logical view

• Logical models

• Physical view

• Physical components and mappings

• Deployment view

• Installation run-time specifications

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