Posted on Thursday, August 14th, 2008 at 4:03 pm
PC World
The benefits of a SOA are widely touted by advocates, and easily understood by anyone in the C-suite cost savings, risk reduction, and business agility through high reuse, interoperability by design, and loosely-coupled integration.
Pervasive misinformation, coupled with religious drama, are the real reasons why many SOA initiatives stall or fail ( Google SOA failures for some interesting reading). At the root is a vendor feeding frenzy the likes of which we haven’t seen since Sun was the dot in dot-com. IT investment in SOA will hit $52 billion over the next four years, with 77 percent of IT shops doing the SOA dance, according to AMR Research, Boston. That’s up from 53 percent of companies with over 500 employees investing in SOA now, AMR says.
