Confusion about SOA and lack of skills hinder local uptake
Uptake of service-oriented architecture in New Zealand is being constrained by a lack of skilled staff, says Deloitte’s local consulting senior manager, James Clarke. “We’re short of skills in New Zealand and you don’t go re-architecting your landscape without a good set of technical and project-management people,” says Clarke.
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SOA tops UK spending priorities
UK IT directors are spending big on service oriented architecture, according a Software AG-sponsored survey. Half of the UK companies surveyed placed SOA in their top three spending priorities over the next 12 months, while 96% put it in their top five.
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Hard Lessons from SOA/Web Services Early Adopters
A recent InformationWeek survey on SOA and Web services revealed that one in three companies are disappointed with their results. the survey results are sobering. The findings suggest companies have overestimated what SOA can do, while underestimating the cost - 30 percent say it costs more than they expected - and complexity - 58 percent […]
August 21, 2007Companies still seeking ROI from SOA
Only 37% of companies using service-oriented architecture (SOA) technology have seen it result in a positive return on investment, according to a report released Monday by Nucleus Research Inc. David O’Connell, an analyst at Wellesley, Mass.-based Nucleus, said that while corporate SOA projects could provide strong ROI for companies, most efforts today “seem to get […]
August 13, 2007Modernizing Legacy Applications: How Are Best-In-Class Doing It?
Organizations that are SOA-enabling their legacy applications on the legacy platform are outperforming those that are using any other approach. They report better productivity, higher agility, and lower costs for legacy integration projects, according to Aberdeen Group study, entitled “Modernizing Legacy Applications: Maximizing the Investment”.
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Java Increases and .Net Declines in SOA Platform Deployments, New Evans Data Survey Shows
The number of companies planning or executing SOA deployments on a Java platform increased slightly during the last six months while those planning to build SOA implementations on .NET decreased by almost 20% according to a new Evans Data survey of developers and IT managers actively working on Web Services. .NET deployments for SOA were […]
August 7, 2007SOA drives IT services spend
Service-oriented architecture (SOA), corporate governance and convergence are driving IT services spend in SA, according to a recent BMI-TechKnowledge report. The IT services market is expected to grow by 6.4% between 2006 and 2011. Industry players say this is not surprising, since SOA comes to the market with the promise of leveraging IT to become […]
August 6, 2007Top Web services applications: business process management, data management, syncronization
According to Evans Data Corporation Web Services/SOA Development Survey, 40% Web Services developers feel that Web Services either absolutely or probably diminish the need for Enterprise Application Integration. Only 10% feel that Web Services absolutely do not diminish the need for EAI. In addition, 60% of Web Services developers believe that Web Services can significantly […]
August 3, 2007Investment in SOA Middleware Infrastructure Starts to Pay Off
IT organizations that made the investment in SOA infrastructure such as ESBs, repositories, and registries, are significantly outperforming companies that develop only web services, according to a new benchmark report from Aberdeen Group, a Harte-Hanks Company. The report, “SOA Middleware Takes the Lead: Picking Up Where Web Services Leaves Off,” is based on a survey […]
July 26, 2007Proving the value of technology/business alignment
The holy grail for IT management has been to prove that IT investment makes the overall business more successful. To those of us in the business this makes intuitive sense but can be hard to prove. Unfortunately, those wishing to believe that IT adds nothing but cost have had a strong hand ever […]
