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proactive and get well ahead of issues that will bring down services, which in
turn will bring down the systems.
What is important to keep in mind as you drive through your own service
governance requirements is that it is not all about technology. People
and processes are core issues here as well. Moreover, since we are extending
our architecture to the cloud computing platforms, those vendors also need
to be involved.
You need a good understanding of the available services, processes, and
data at this point before you define service governance approaches, design
policies, and deploy them on the service governance technologies. Those
who attempt service governance without having that level of understanding
do not really know what to govern.
We now have a service, process, information, and service governance understanding
of our problem domain. It is time to move on to the next step
and the next chapter.