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	April 14, 2006 Survey Data Says: The Time For SOA Is Now Dispense With Excuses And Begin Your Move To SOA by Randy Heffner with Carl Zetie, Lindsey Hogan

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Executive Summary

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) adoption continues to be strong, especially for the largest enterprises. Satisfaction with SOA runs very high: Nearly 70% of SOA users say they will increase their use of SOA, and 46% of large enterprise users of SOA use it for strategic business transformation. The more disciplined firms are, and the more they do with IT — hence, the more complex their environments — the more likely they are to be early adopters of SOA. Web services adoption overlaps with SOA adoption, but a notable population of firms reports using one or the other but not both. Most importantly, enterprises are adopting SOA in roughly equal numbers regardless of their business climate or whether they have extra budget available to fund a move to SOA. The message is clear: It is time to dispense with excuses and begin your move to SOA.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• The More Firms Do With Technology, The Stronger Their SOA Adoption
• Web Services Adoption Is Higher Than, And Overlaps With, SOA Adoption
• Firms Are Doing SOA With Or Without Direct Funding, But Money Helps
• Who Gets To SOA First? Aggressive, Disciplined Firms

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