The main message must be that businesses' existing IT investments are safe - SOA does not require an organisation to dump its SAP or Siebel installations. From a sample size of 1,500 respondents representing a mixture of technical and business...
Some talked about the lure of a service-oriented architecture (SOA) and XML and keeping their investment in SAP but any future investments will be done with point solutions. I would expect that the customer will try to check and test the...
Think finance and insurance companies, major retail organisations and telecommunications companies - all of these are implementing SOA and have the same issues about needing to reuse existing investments, and avoid the 'silo' implementations of...
While the analyst house said SOA has "significant potential" to boost the value organisations derive from their IT investments, early adopters have also encountered problems around security, service performance, reliability and data management.
The "four horsemen" of commoditisation - service oriented architecture (SOA), open source, software as a service and offshoring - will lead to cheaper prices and a radical change in enterprise software landscape of the future, according to analyst...
Yet Europe in contrast appears top-heavy, opaque and unwieldy, lacking the regulatory flexibility and agility required to compete on equal terms with its principal economic rivals which are investing heavily in imagination.