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'Whole-brained' enterprises need SOA: here are the numbers to prove it

Okay, okay, we get it -- business and IT need to be aligned. They're obviously not in alignment, or we wouldn't have 50,000 conference speakers and analyst reports telling us so. So, let's have at it, and align away.Finally, a study that provides hard numbers on the connection between business-IT...

Tags: SOA Surveys and Research, General, Business ROI

Blog posts 2007-08-01

Let market forces drive SOA adoption

A report out of ComputerWeekly notes that in its latest survey of 100 top IT executives, 77% now "believe it is getting easier to demonstrate the business value of IT" -- up from 66% in February.Statistical margin of error (10%) aside, what happened over the last five months to make...

Tags: Business ROI, General, SOA Surveys and Research

Blog posts 2007-07-24

Survey hints at SOA skills shortages to come

IBM commissioned a survey of attendees at its recent SOA customer confab, and concluded that SOA -- at least among this group -- is finally evolving from an IT activity to that of a more strategic business initiative. IBM said that the strategic decisions to adopt SOA "are shifting away...

Tags: Business ROI, General, SOA Surveys and Research, Web Services

Blog posts 2007-07-11

Survey: mainframes now being service-enabled, not replaced

A new survey confirms what many of us already suspected: that mainframe and other legacy systems are no longer being ripped up and replaced. Instead, the operative term is now "modernization." And SOA has helped fuel this sea change.A new survey finds modernizing is preferable to replacing Big Iron. Times...

Tags: Web Services, Vendor Watch, SOA Surveys and Research, General, Business ROI

Blog posts 2007-06-29

Saugatuck: why SOA adoption is at a 'crawl'

Maybe it's because vendors still sell SOA as toolsets, versus concepts. (Who can sell a "concept," right?) Or, maybe business users are perplexed by the technospeak that typically is invoked in SOA discussions. For a variety of reasons, SOA adoption has been moving at a snail's pace within enterprises, according...

Tags: Business ROI, General, SOA Surveys and Research, Vendor Watch

Blog posts 2007-05-30

Surprise: new Harvard-MIT study finds IT does 'matter' -- a lot

Andrew McAfee of Harvard Business School and Erik Brynjolfsson of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology recently wrapped up a study that sought to answer the question that has been nagging at the industry for the past couple of years: does information technology matter? Or is it becoming commoditized to the...

Tags: Business ROI, Erik Brynjolfsson, General, information technology, Joe McKendrick, mid 1990s, SOA Surveys and Research

Blog posts 2007-05-02

Gartner: 'no major conceptual flaw' yet with SOA, but...

Gartner has given the green light to accelerated SOA spending. The concept works, but caution, the payback will be slower than expected. I like how L. Frank Kenney, research director for Gartner, has summed up the state of enterprise SOA adoption thus far: “Large numbers of successes have been reported,...

Tags: General, SOA Surveys and Research, Business ROI

Blog posts 2007-04-25

Survey: even the best of the best are still new at SOA

Aberdeen Research has just completed and published a survey of 950 companies, and concluded that "between a third and half.. are having serious difficulties getting their SOA-enabled applications into stable deployment." The survey was underwritten by three SOA specialty vendors -- iTKO, Mindreef, and Progress Actional. Many companies...

Tags: General, SOA Surveys and Research, Business ROI

Blog posts 2007-04-11

Transformation, agility: are expectations too high for SOA?

Theres been a lot of discussion lately about SOA "failures," and already, statistics are showing up showing that this percentage or that percentage of companies consider their SOA projects to be failures. Expect to see plenty more of such surveys over the coming months and years. Survey data shows...

Tags: Business ROI, General, SOA Surveys and Research, Vendor Watch

Blog posts 2007-03-08

Survey confirms we're getting faster and better at SOA

Last month, I wrapped up writing the latest Evans Data survey of Web services and SOA, in which more than 400 managers and developers were asked to document their progress with these approaches. The survey has been conducted twice a year since the end of 2003. More than...

Tags: SOA Surveys and Research, Web Services, Business ROI, General, SOA

Blog posts 2007-01-02

Survey hints business intelligence may be "killer app" for SOA

A golden opportunity for SOA proponents is presenting itself. A new survey shows that most companies are looking to service-oriented architecture to build out their next phase of business intelligence applications, but that lack of knowledge about SOA may be hindering these efforts. BI pulls information from...

Tags: General, Business ROI, Web Services, SOA Surveys and Research, SOA, business intelligence

Blog posts 2006-12-01

Survey: large enterprises expect less than 30 percent SOA reuse

Reuse is the most important metric by which large companies will be measuring the success of their SOA efforts – but most don’t expect high levels of reuse to happen any time soon.A new survey commissioned by BEA Systems finds that a majority of the largest global organizations (61%) expect...

Tags: SOA, SOA Surveys and Research, Business ROI, General

Blog posts 2006-11-27

Less coding, less outsourcing?

Will SOA take away a lot of outsourcers business? Or will its impact be negligible? As service oriented architecture has risen to the top of many enterprise to-do lists, theres been a lot of speculation about its potential impact on outsourcing. A couple of perspectives have shed some more light...

Tags: SOA, General, Business ROI, Web Services, SOA Surveys and Research

Blog posts 2006-11-22

Additional Resources

SOA adoption trends -- what the data tells us

In response to a recent post that talked about corporate success rates with SOA, a reader issued a challenge to show the numbers behind SOA adoption. So, here is a summary of significant surveys -- a recap from previous posts -- on SOA adoption that have been conducted over the...

Tags: SOA, Survey, Loraine, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-03-12