Governance is recognized as a foundational requirement for successful enterprise adoption of SOA: Gartner has stated that "governance isn't an option but an imperative", and predicts that the dominant mode of SOA project failure will be a lack of adequate governance [REF].
The primary products used by most organizations to achieve SOA governance are based on an integrated registry-repository, and provide support for managing and communication information in an SOA as well as automating key governance activities [REF].