Many organisations have successfully completed small-scale SOA pilot projects, but these have highlighted a number of business management challenges that must be addressed before wider-scale adoption can be started, said analyst IDC.
Open source software is seeing slow but steady adoption among large UK businesses as they begin to take it to the heart of their organisations. One key factor that has held back adoption has been a lack of enterprise-class support and services, but this is changing.
Investment firm Delta Lloyd Germany, part of the Aviva Group, is using the Perforce Fast Software Configuration Management (SCM) system to manage its move to a service oriented architecture (SOA) environment.