Vendors have yet to learn how to communicate the value of a service-oriented architecture, or SOA, to business types, says Quocirca's Clive Longbottom. For the single, underpinning software framework to support the utility vision, the market has...
A key component to managing and controlling the changing nature of software will be a service-oriented architecture (SOA). A strong change readiness programme overcomes people's natural resistance by telling them what's happening, giving them the...
MWD said that SOA will only deliver value in the long term if it links the different perspectives of IT - as experienced by software developers, operations staff and most importantly the business groups which set IT budgets and drive projects.
Other over-hyped technologies in the last 12 months included mobile computing, service oriented architecture (SOA), grid computing and voice over IP (VoIP) - although half of respondents said they will be focusing on VoIP in 2006.
SOA is an evolutionary approach that does not require a rip-and-replace of infrastructure and applications but does generally require buy-in from the business to gain the major benefits, such as functional component reuse, efficient use of assets...
And many companies believe the key to this has something to do with the IT industry's latest hot concepts, service-oriented architecture (SOA). For more on service-oriented architecture see our SOA Cheat Sheet.
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