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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

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

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

Additional Resources

No more servers? Rackspace says IT workers are tired of them

And, as servers move to the cloud, fewer and fewer will be Windows servers.When you deploy thousands, you can pay millions in licensing for Windows, and, then Windows is less stable and less secure.RE: No more servers? Rackspace says IT workers are tired of themI wonder how well those outsourced...

Tags: Servers, server, information technology, Rackspace

Discussion threads 2009-11-10

Private cloud formations rising, but remember SOA lessons

We've been tracking developments in the private cloud space for the past couple of years. As noted in my last post, there's plenty of concern about the security and reliability of cloud computing. Perhaps one way to address these concerns is through private clouds that remain in...

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

Blog posts 2009-08-13

SOA's squishy paybacks revisited

A couple of years back, I posted some observations on the issues around SOA payback. Some analysts still say there has been little to no payback from these efforts.  Since SOA payback is still such a raw and confusing issue, here is an updated reprise of that post: ...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Payback, SOA, Service, Business Agility, David Linthicum, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-07-17

News to know: Social media spam; Sprint; Windows Mobile; Google

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Jennifer Leggio: Snake oil at its slickest: A social media spam story Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft Silverlight 3 available...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Mobile, Social Media, Spam, Microsoft Corp., Sprint Communications, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Blog posts 2009-07-10

How green is software as a service?

How green is software as a service?Greenas in lots of money for the company selling the SAASthe ROI however is questionableRedundancies and distributed computingIt'll be fun to see how organizations with a server farm of 150 Microsoft servers can meet the needs of 2000+ workers using insecure, web-based SaaS...Yes and...

Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), Managed hosting, cloud computing, software-as-a-service, server, server farm, capacity utilisation

Discussion threads 2009-06-06

Manes: no bones about it, 'SOA' (as we knew it) is still dead

"I never intended to say that organizations shouldn't do SOA (they MUST!), but SOA teams are hard pressed to get funding for their efforts unless they focus on delivering services that generate measurable business value." - Anne Thomas Manes Anne Thomas Manes...

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

Blog posts 2009-05-26

Social PR Survey II: Continued disconnect between clients, agencies

Back in February I published the results of a social public relations survey that attempted to gauge client satisfaction levels with their current PR agencies. What showed up was dismal - and really showed that client trust in their agencies was low. Given that data, and several...

Tags: Agency, Social Media, Client, Survey, Advertising & Promotion, Public Relations, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2009-05-11

Survey: technology investments boost odds of success

If you're looking for evidence that technology investments can make a difference in your company's success, a survey made available by The Economist Intelligence Unit and underwritten by Oracle may help supply you with some ammunition for your argument. (Available for download here.) Overall, 78% of survey...

Tags: Information Technology, Technology Investment, Survey, Strategy, Marketing Research, Management, Marketing, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-03-26

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

Sanity check: State of the IT profession 2009

In light of the release of our 2009 IT Skills and Salary Report, I have assembled a set of observations about the current state of the IT profession. Here are the areas of strength and the most significant challenges. â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€" We the people...

Tags: Information Technology, Survey, IT Department, Strategy, Management, Jason Hiner

Blog posts 2009-02-24

Five reasons to consider PC power management

The rolodex of Green IT projects available to IT leadership is seemingly endless. But at some point, prioritization is necessary, and IT professionals tend to gravitate to those projects that produce an acceptable financial return with the path of least resistance. And in recent interactions with Forrester clients, it's becoming...

Tags: Power Management, PC, Information Technology, Doug Washburn

Blog posts 2009-02-12

Tipping Point Reached For Cloud Computing?

Has the tipping point come for software to be widely adopted as an online service? William S. McNee, president and CEO of Saugatuck Technology in Westport, CT, believes it has. He says that mainstream adoption within small and medium-sized businesses...

Tags: Software-as-a-service, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Tools & Techniques, Pricing, Emerging Technologies, Management, Marketing, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2009-01-30

State of the Portal Market

In light of the current economic environment, many organizations are feeling pressure to drive greater operational transparency, align costs with revenue fluctuations, and create more flexible business processes that allow them to better respond to the volatile market conditions. Enterprise portal platforms can help address and alleviate these pressures, as...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Enterprise Portal, Portals, Web Technology, Groupware, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software

White papers 2009-01-01

Palm's CES news. Just in time or too late?

Palm may be in a good position to generate some buzz at the Consumer Electronics Show - and a major announcement about its long-time-coming operating system, called Nova, could be the thing it needs to grab the spotlight. It shouldn't be too hard to make some noise at CES this...

Tags: Consumer Electronics Show, Mobile, Palm Inc., Smart Phone, JIT, Smart Phones, Advertising & Promotion, Handhelds, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Hardware, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-12-15