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 enterprises we interviewed 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 (SaaS)—into an infrastructure, rather than that being a separate and disconnected island of functionality.

In this volume, we explore the technological and vendor landscape,including the major segments of the market for SOA wares and some vendors in each space. We also investigate the enterprise map of that same territory,including the vendors that participants see as important, even strategic; where participants plan to invest their dollars in the near term; and what they think about the vendors they work with now.

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