Prioritization enablement for soa governance

A method for providing a service-oriented architecture prioritization enablement framework, comprising:

• producing computer executable program code;
• storing the code on a computer readable medium;
• and
• providing the program code to be deployed and executed on a computer system, the program code comprising instructions which, when executed on the computer system, cause the computer system to:
• categorize a plurality of business objectives and principles indicative of a service-oriented architecture enterprise with respect to a plurality of business objectives and principles categories;
• define groupings of individual measurable business goals of the business objectives and principles categorized with respect to each of the plurality of business objectives and principles categories;
• determine total weight values for each of the business goals as a product of an individual weighting value of the each business goal and a base weighting of the business objectives and principles category of the each business goal;
• iteratively apply each of the business goal total weight values to each of a plurality of priority values of a service of the service-oriented architecture associated with the business goal of the each business goal total weight value to generate a weighted priority value for the each business goal until weighted priority values are generated for all of the plurality of service priority values;
• aggregate the weighted business goal priority values to produce an aggregated priority weighting value for the service;
• and
• prioritize the service relative to another service as a function of comparing the aggregated priority weighting value for the service to an aggregated priority weighting value for the another service.

A programmable device comprising:

• a processing means;
• a memory in communication with the processing means comprising a logic component;
• and
• a network interface in communication with the processing means and the memory;
• wherein the processing means is configured by the logic component to:
• categorize a plurality of business objectives and principles indicative of a service-oriented architecture enterprise with respect to a plurality of business objectives and principles categories;
• define groupings of individual measurable business goals of the business objectives and principles categorized with respect to each of the plurality of business objectives and principles categories;
• determine total weight values for each of the business goals as a product of an individual weighting value of the each business goal and a base weighting of the business objectives and principles category of the each business goal;
• iteratively apply each of the business goal total weight values to each of a plurality of priority values of a service of the service-oriented architecture associated with the business goal of the each business goal total weight value to generate a weighted priority value for the each business goal until weighted priority values are generated for all of the plurality of service priority values;
• aggregate the weighted business goal priority values to produce an aggregated priority weighting value for the service;
• and
• prioritize the service relative to another service as a function of comparing the aggregated priority weighting value for the service to an aggregated priority weighting value for the another service.