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« Mashups May Help Users Better Understand SOA | Main | Safeco Crosses New Boundaries with SOA » June 05, 2007SOA Leaders Speak Out: This is Only the Beginning Experts with leading vendors of course, are optimistic about adoption of SOA, but in a recent series of podcasts, they candidly pointed out that many of their customers are only on the first leg of their journey to SOA. ebizQ colleague Gian Trotta informed me he has posted full transcripts from my recent podcasts with SOA industry leaders for the InfoWorld SOA Executive Forum. There are many notable and quotable observations about the current state of SOA in these podcasts and transcripts: "People are still on a learning curve [with SOA]. We do see, in some situations, where customers and organizations have... between 10 and 20 services to see how that would play out within the other architecture that they use within their organization and enterprise. ...It seems like organizations still find it a little bit challenging to take the next step and really roll these services into production. ...it's unknown how these services would function in a production environment as far as security is concerned." - From a podcast with Software AG's Mighael Botha "Some companies have been doing [SOA] for a long time using older technology such as CORBA, MQ series and WebSphere MQ. One of our pioneering SOA customers, Credit Suisse has been working on an SOA for about ten years based on CORBA, and last I heard they had about 2,000 services in production and processing about a billion transactions a year. Yet, some other divisions of that same institution are just sort of getting started with their SOA projects...." - From a podcast with IONA's Eric Newcomer "We tend to think of SOA as being a factor of structure, scale and speed. ...I would characterized folks who have really gotten into that intersection as only being about 300 major companies worldwide, including some governments. If you look at the rest of the market, they may actually be taking a couple of different things, maybe two out of three but not all three. So, there are companies that are sort of achieving some level of agility but they're not doing so at a very large scale...." - From a podcast with webMethod's Miko Matsumura "A couple of years ago, the major emphasis was about education about SOA, and about the value that SOA brings to an Enterprise. Today, we believe that a majority of the companies have crossed that hump and have actually bought into the religion of SOA and they are starting to invest into specific point projects for SOA. So they're starting to take simple implementations where they would have used point-to-point integration techniques to connect two disparate applications. Today they are actually moving towards the SOA-based architecture of connecting these applications together. Or optimizing or automating business processes." - From a podcast with Oracle's Ashish Mohindaroo "Businesses are finding that what they intended the services to be used for only scratches the surface of what they actually could be used for. Deep organizational changes are required as a part of the implementation, but these changes present companies with new business opportunities -– in part, as a result of the deconstruction of their former business capabilities." - From a podcast with BEA's Charles Stack. Posted by joemckendrick in SOA | Digg This | Add to del.icio.us Trackback Pings TrackBack URL for this entry:
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