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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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