Service oriented
architectures are being used more and more widely
within UK firms, with
many major organisations having now adopted some
version of the technology, according to global consultancy
Accenture.
David Thomlinson, Accenture’s recently appointed managing
director for the UK and Ireland, told Computer Weekly that SOA
stood out as the latest “hot” technology.
“All of our big customers are really looking at this,” he
said.
“Using SOA is pivotal today to investing in future
technologies.”
Accenture itself is spending money on SOA
readiness, according to Thomlinson.
“SOA is an area [where] we are making very significant
investments to develop our capabilities,” he said.
But Clive Longbottom, services director at analyst firm
Quocirca, warned that companies such as Accenture needed to ensure
they were providing true SOA capability to all their clients.
“Businesses are going for it but the question is whether they
are doing it at the right scale,” he said. Longbottom said some
companies were replacing legacy applications across the board with
SOA while others were retaining a lot of existing application but
linking them up using SOA technologies.
“The big consultancies need to ensure that they are only
recommending suitable SOA technologies that are a good fit for a
particular business,” he added.
Hans Sparkes, marketing director for open solutions business at
Unisys, also agreed with Accenture that all major customers were
now engaged with or otherwise evaluating SOA.
“The big organisations definitely see SOA as the thing to get to
grips with their applications,” he said.
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