Tuesday, 21 August 2007

SOA Overly Hyped, Says Industry Report

Service Oriented Architecture is overly hyped and its adoption is more departmentally based, limiting its return on investment and overall use, says a new study by Nuclear Research and KnowledgeStorm. The study was based on survey of 106 companies.

In a study entitled "Benchmarking: Service-Oriented Architecture," that was released yesterday, Nucleus Research and partner KnowledgeStorm said that while SOA drives developer productivity, it often ends with a single project or a few projects, which limits the ability for broad-based SOA to deliver ROI.

In the study it was found that fewer than half of enterprises have really adopted SOA.

"SOA is pretty far along the hype curve," said David O'Connell, senior analyst at Nucleus Research adding “the findings are that generally, people are not getting a large amount of return on investment on SOA. Only a minority of companies are getting a return on investment on SOA."

The study said SOA has been hyped for some time as a key way for companies to improve developer productivity, shorten project cycle times, and enable better integration in heterogeneous environments. The concept involves using standards-based reusable software components to develop applications built on business processes and enable integration.