Behind The SOA Slowdown
by John McCormick
Gartner recently released some surprising news about service-oriented architecture adoption.
While the majority of large organizations are moving ahead with SOA, the IT research company said, a growing number are holding off plans to deploy the software development framework, which allows companies to make bits of applications available as units, or services, that can be called upon and used by other software applications.
Gartner conducted research between May and July on the adoption, use, benefits of and practices for SOA and found that there has been a fall off in the number of organization that are planning to adopt SOA for the first time.
"In 2008, this was cut by more than one-half, down to 25 percent from 53 percent in 2007, while the number of organizations with no plans to adopt SOA more than doubled from 6 percent in 2007 to 16 percent in 2008," the research company said.
Why?
Gartner said the two major reasons for not pursuing SOA are "a lack of skills and expertise, and no viable business case."
Gartner said that in discussion with its clients it found that there was a lot of confusion over how to build a business case for SOA.
And, it went on, "[e]ven if a valid business case exists, then the required skills are often unavailable in-house, and the costs and effort to develop in-house skills and acquire outside expertise are often daunting."
"Organizations without a clear business case for SOA and without a plan to develop or acquire the necessary skills are justified in taking a cautious approach, and delaying SOA adoption plans for the coming year," said Daniel Sholler, research vice president at Gartner, in a statement.
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John is a founder of CIOZone. He was most recently the VP/Editor-in-chief of CIO Insight & Baseline magazines and their companion Web sites, former editor of Inter@ctiveWeek & former editor and the first online editor at InformationWeek. In 2005, John was awarded the Jesse H. Neal Gold Award—the Pulitzer Prize for the business press—for Best Single Article, and was a finalist in the same category in 2003. He's also won several American Society of Business Publication Editors (ASBPE) awards for columns, features and case studies.
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