A quarter of enterprises are already using software as a service, with another 10 per cent piloting or planning to pilot it - citing application availability and reliability, and rapid deployment as the main drivers to adoption.
John Odell, group IT director at the BBA Group, said fourth generation programme languages (4GLs), object orientation and web services are just "yet another attempt at reusable code". Graham Benson, IT director at the Web Factory - the IT services...
Many others who have moved towards an SOA have replaced hard-coded connectivity with hard-linked SOA connectivity, minimising the capabilities for component reuse and business flexibility. SOA is perhaps today's least-understood acronym.
Amitabh Ray, vice president of global delivering consulting and application services at IBM, explained: "What we are doing is creating SOA-based reusable components that will enhance the speed to market so we will be able to do implementations...
HP has stepped up its commitment to the emerging area of service-oriented architecture (SOA), announcing consulting and software that draw heavily on its acquisition of Mercury Interactive. At a press conference, the company outlined its strategy...
And he added SOA has an important part to play in this. SAP says collaborative working through service oriented architecture (SOA) technology represents the future for businesses. The entry ticket to manage these networks is SOA.