SOA deployments start to bear fruits
By Maggie Holland,
Companies that have invested time and money in service oriented architecture (SOA) are at an advantage over their non-SOA-embracing peers, according to new research from Aberdeen Group.
Full SOA devotees boast a 90 per cent improvement in end-user satisfaction compared with the 15 per cent gain enjoyed by those using a mix of SOA and web services, according a study by the analyst, which showed that the organisations that ranked best in their class were twice as likely to have deployed SOA middleware compared to those who've only gone as far as making use of web services.
In essence, those businesses who've put their financial and human resources into SOA infrastructure-related activities are leaving their web service-development counterparts in the shade, according to the report entitled 'SOA Middleware Takes the Lead: Picking Up Where Web Services Leaves Off,' which studied companies around the globe.
"IT organisations that are succeeding have realised that enterprise-level infrastructure investments are necessary," said Perry Donham, Aberdeen's director of enterprise applications research and the report's author.
"Groups that are deploying applications in silos, even when those silos are a mix of web services and SOA, are suffering from the lack of an enterprise-wide messaging infrastructure," he said.
Earlier this year at the BEA Systems' Arch2Arch Summitin Nice, delegates were told that those embarking on SOA deployments should be clear from the start that they are unlikely to enjoy overnight success, and that they must be prepared for a multi-year journey.
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