Many large organizations are looking at Canonical Model Management as part of an overall Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) based approach. They may have well already adopted tools aimed at SOA Governance or run-time optimization. igniteXML is designed to complement these suites with an integrated Canonical Management capability. For example igniteXML can be integrated with most leading Registry/Repositories and BPEL engines. This provides a paradigm shift from Schema Management to an approach based on the Canonical Model. Additionally policies can be extended to Canonical Model Management and usage.