As organizations adopt SOA in a major way, SOA Governenance is beginning to get a lot attention. ebizQ is currently conducting a survey on SOA Governance and the preliminary results are very interesting. The majority of companies have fewer than 10 Web services deployed, and most do not yet have a full SOA Governanace strategy in place. However, the majority of respondents report that compliance and governance are corporate mandates. The combination of all of the above tell us that SOA Governance is soon to be a hot topic.

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IBM announced it is acquiring Filenet for $1.6 Billion. IT seems IBM's buying spree continues unabashed. And just as it finally brought together all of it's process engines and rationalized that offering, it goes and buys yet another one. Probably not to dredge up all that BPM confusion again, IBM is positioning FileNet squarely as an ECM solution, after years of FileNet trying to gain respect as a full fledged event driven BPM.

Bottom line, IBM bought a competitor it was most worried about. It's done that before, and has proved to be a winning stragegy for IBM.

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IBM has acquired Webify Solutions, a company that has created veritcal industry Services and frameworks. Webify is based in Austin., TX and Mumbai, India. IBM is making a $200 million a year investment in a Global Business Solution Center (GBSC) in India with the intent of creating ready to use business Services(IBM sets up SOA hub in India). This acquisition will give them a leg up in having services to sell. It may also help guide other develpment efforts as they set up shop in India. IBM plans to employ 54,000 - 60,000 in India - 20% of its workforce, and plans to invest $1 billion this year on SOA. So if you've got any good SOA services to sell, or have some interest in moving to India, I suggest you try giving IBM a call.

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