Whether your organization's SOA has 50 services in use by one customer, or 50 customers using one service, you need governance in order to gain the most business and IT agility from your SOA. SOA governance helps translate business strategy and requirements into policies that guide the evolution of the SOA—and your enterprise. A new white paper from BEA, Get Serious About SOA Governance: A 5-Step Action Plan for Architects,will help you get SOA governance right. Also, for ideas on translating those strategies into actions, check out SOA Governance@Work, a new, ongoing blog series on the Arch2Arch Website. Each post in this series will present a practical, street-level view of SOA governance practices and techniques.

BEA AquaLogic Service Bus, Financial Services Edition, is a comprehensive SWIFT-ready Financial EAI Gold 2007 certified solution to help enable financial institutions and corporations build and manage a flexible payments infrastructure using an SOA-based approach.

If you missed BEAWorld San Francisco, the good news is you don't have to miss out on all the great content from the keynotes or the breakout presentations. It's all online—check it out today and catch up on the latest news about BEA technologies and innovations.

BEA's Customer Success Program (CSP) offers you an opportunity to gain valuable public recognition and global visibility as a thought leader. The BEA CSP highlights your successful BEA projects and provides you with a wide range of value-added benefits.

There are many great success stories out there and we want to hear yours. We invite you to submit your nomination to become BEA's "Most Innovative Customer for 2007." We will choose one winner per region (Americas, EMEA, and APAC) to receive an all-expense paid trip to Las Vegas and be special guests at our Annual Field Kick-off event, March 2-5, 2008.

BEA has just launched a series of podcasts focusing on BEA customers. In ten minutes or less, each customer talks about how their company solved real business challenges by deploying SOA and BEA technology. It's quick, it's easy—and it's inspiring.