A company's Web Services are valuable corporate assets and need to be managed that way. What's needed is a comprehensive administration and control process to authorize deployment and access, manage the relationships between providers and consumers, monitor service use, ensure proper service delivery and performance, apply business terms and decision factors, and so on. It's not just about governing the technology. It's about governing business relationships with B2B partners, business units, suppliers and customers.

Infravio calls this process of controlling and tracking providers, consumers and Web Services usage at every step of the lifecycle Web Services Governance.

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