Overview:

Service-oriented architectures (SOA) are poised to change dramatically how IT thinks and works in the enterprise, and how the enterprise thinks about IT as well. The shift from monolithic applications to loosely coupled constellations of collaborating software components is under way, with most of the enterprise IT executives with whom we spoke already having deployed at least a pilot SOA, and a few having completed the journey.

The shift is pervasive and promises to reduce the cost of integrating new systems into an existing infrastructure as well as the cost of building and maintaining software. It opens the door to fully integrating software provided by service providers – software as a service – into an infrastructure, rather than that being a separate and disconnected island of functionality.

In the first volume of this benchmark, we explore the basic organizational
and operational characteristics of the move to SOA: Why organizations pursue it (or choose not to), how much they are spending and how it is paid for, how IT and the enterprise organize around it, and what benefits they are seeing from it.

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