With Systinet 2 from the company of the same name, users get a foundation for and unified approach to definition, understanding, and use of service-oriented architecture (SOA) information so that consistency is maintained throughout the SOA. Systinet 2, a comprehensive SOA governance and life-cycle management platform, allows companies to control visibility of a service according to its current status, control transition between deprecated service versions and their replacements, and build/deploy services consistently. Systinet 2 provides a trusted system of record and a full set of abilities for establishment of visibility, control, quality, and trust. Consistent access, management, and governance of reusable business services are ensured. With the integrated registry and an in-depth set of governance and life-cycle management applications, Systinet provides functionality for publishing and discovering services, creation and enforcement of policies, facilitation of consumer-provider contracts and consumption agreements, and seamless change implementation for business services without disruption of consuming applications. With Systinet 2, business agility and service reuse are supported without giving up IT control or predictability. Systinet 2 provides an open, flexible platform for creating structure, process, and best practices. The scalable foundation can quickly show momentum and offers a foundation for large-scale implementations and broad reuse.