The report, entitled ALM (application lifecycle management) and SOA: Lifecycles in a Parallel Universe, posits that the push to apply governance to the SOA lifecycle creates a separate domain of governance apart from the software development lifecycle (SDLC).

"Full blown SOA governance often recreates duplication that SOA architecture was supposed to eliminate," said Tony Baer, senior analyst, Ovum. "The disconnect of SOA from the mainstream of the software development lifecycle has contributed to the backlash that it has suffered over the past 12 -- 18 months."