The vast majority of industry experts predict that the adoption of Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) will grow rapidly over the coming year. It’s not surprising why. In essence SOA is an effective way in which a company can integrate not only its diverse applications suite but also the business tasks and processes it carries out. The result is a more streamlined, flexible, adaptable, and hence competitive and effective organisation.
Despite all the hype surrounding service-orientated architectures (SOAs), the solution is still not yet the predominant operating model to adopt in many organisations’ minds, analyst group Butler has said.
There are two main pressures facing all businesses: coping with downward financial pressure and aligning IT with business objectives. In fact the former makes the latter much more of an essential item.
British Airways is taking its first tentative steps towards SOA, but believes that it is unlikely to use such concepts internally on a widespread basis for at least another five years.
Users of webMethods’ service oriented architecture products are set to gain tools to help enforce the reuse of services by developers, following the supplier’s acquisition of SOA governance specialist Infavio.