Policy-driven Management

Looking back in the history of IT, technologies have come an gone like mayflies. Some have stayed longer and some are like cockroaches which we can't get rid off.

The goal for IT remains the same though while the roadmap seems to be rewritten for all new technologies entering the market. Indiviual vendors doesn't have the patiance to be lasting and durable in the market and therefore tries to find the short answer to the roadmap.

With a couple of years behind us, following the adoption of XML, we are now seeing a pattern where standardized technologies enabling each other. Web Service couldn't be realized without XML eventhough Services were a well known term in IT. Same goes for SOA, an architecture for making services managable, reachable and reusable.



BPM (Business Process Managment) might be a successfull design, but based on SOA it will reach new hights and dictate the new way for building software. BSM (Business Service Managment) will leverage on BPM and be the last enabler for the main goal for IT.

The goal for IT will be to fully manage IT with a policy-driven management approach. A situation where the business policies dictate what service will be used for different processes.