Governance key to SOA

The SOA Consortium held in June recently released materials from its SOA Governance Roundtable panel, according to ADT Mag.

The roundtable featured comments on the governance concept in service-oriented architectures (SOAs) from five experts. Panellists included representatives from IBM, BEA Systems, SAP and Cisco Systems.

Fill Bowen, IBM's marketing manager for SOA governance, said governance is about organisational control, including both functional and non-functional aspects of decision-making.

For the residents of nearly 15 000 villages of Nagpur, visiting the police headquarters is just a click away, says IBNLive.

The Nagpur rural police has introduced an Internet-based e-policing system, called Lok Samwad, that connects district police stations with the headquarters.

"Howards University's Kennedy School of Governance has awarded Nagpur police this year's innovation in governance award," says SP, Nagpur Rural, Yashasvi Yadav.

Archer, a provider of automated enterprise risk and compliance management solutions, recently announced it has been named a 2007 "Hot 500" entrepreneurial business by Entrepreneur magazine, according to Marketwire.

Archer, ranking 128 in the listing, was chosen from a database of over 19 million US businesses due to an exceptional level of sales and job growth.

"Archer's growth is a testament to the talent and dedication of our employees, who create powerful risk and compliance management solutions and deliver exceptional service with a laser-like focus on the customer," said Jon Darbyshire, president and CEO of Archer.