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• Formalization of Governance Policy Models, with definition and enforcement of rules and regulations, compliance monitoring, and adaptive policies across operational environments. Governance capabilities include predefined templates, workflows, and governance policies for governing the service lifecycle as well as an approval and review process for service specifications and the ability to promote services through the stages of the service lifecycle
• Service descriptions for use, deployment, managementusing, re-using, deploying, managing, discovering, validating, testing, versioning, configuring, migrating, analyzing, binding, measuring, assembling, organizing, and controlling services.

Service discovery and governance also helps to accomplish the following. Promote Service Reuse: The use of well defined service metadata promotes better discovery and reuse of services during design and run time. Service metadata includes information about service interactions and dependencies. It also includes a classification scheme for organizing services based on business objectives, domain, and usage. It also links services to all the supporting artifacts in the specification and provides a placeholder for conformance statements. This enables better reuse across the enterprise and eliminates redundancy.

Establish Service policies: Service policies help establish constraints on the service specifications and mandate an approach. Policies can be specified around governance, access control and other design and runtime constraints.

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