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Survey Says SOAs Are a Hit with Enterprises
- By ADT Staff
- October 10, 2005
Just in case you weren’t paying attention: webMethods released on Monday
the results of a survey that reveals SOAs and Web services are catching on with
global 2000 companies. From the responses of 480 survey respondents, webMethods
determined big enterprises are bullish on SOA while accelerating their deployment
of Web services.
More than 80 percent of respondents deploy Web services within their enterprises,
even though the majority of them said their SOA strategies were still formative.
Two key challenges impeding the advance of SOA are a lack of widely accepted
methodologies and related business case analysis tools, according to the survey.
The need for practical methodologies, education and best practices will emerge
as key enablers for more widespread SOA adoption over the coming year, says
Lance Hill, a webMethods product marketing VP. Coupled with rapidly maturing
technology, the top three reasons users gave for pursuing an SOA strategy were:
- Ability to reuse services in the future: 20.4%
- Lower integration costs: 17.6%
- Faster delivery of projects: 16.2%
The survey was conducted in August of 2005, with 480 users responding. More
information is available at webMethods.