Lately, many pundits and trade publications have been fretting whether service-oriented architecture is catching on, or if it's still a dream trapped within the IT silo.
A new survey ebizQ conducted in conjunction with IBM finds SOA is gaining traction across the enterprise. However, the challenge is that there may be many separate SOA efforts going on under one roof. Can these separate efforts be brought together, to properly fulfill the vision of SOA? (Less complexity, more simplicity, outside of the silos.)
The survey of 244 companies found that organizations are firmly committed to SOA as a strategy going forward - and they're willing to put budget dollars into the endeavor.
However, in most cases, SOA is not one effort that an enterprise launches, but a series of initiatives that arise to address different challenges within different business units. There's no such thing as a single, all-encompassing SOA effort that covers every service initiative from every corner of the enterprise.
Enterprises are taking multiple approaches to building and supporting SOA, including application servers, composite middleware, and enterprise service buses. One out of four companies have moved to a federated infrastructure to support multiple instances of ESBs or intermediaries. Those with federated structures are more likely to be able to move from siloed SOA to enterprise-scale SOA.
On Wednesday, May 12, I will be teaming up with Leif Davidsen, worldwide content lead for SOA reuse and connectivity marketing at IBM, in Webinar to talk about the results of this landmark survey, as well as cover solutions that address the need to better integrate scattered SOA initiatives. All participants will receive a copy of the survey results.
For information and access to the Webinar, click here. We hope you will join us.
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