Benchmark Report
December, 2005
The SOA in IT Benchmark Report

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Table of Contents

List of Figures

List of Charts

  

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) brings with it real promise - and at the same time places a lot of pressure on today’s CIO to lower costs and make IT more responsive to the business.

The business benefits of SOA are largely untapped, but an Aberdeen survey offers perspective for IT organizations - and their enterprises - that want to embrace SOAs.

There is an urgent need for CIOs to more fully embrace SOA as a strategic blueprint for the IT organization. The top challenge to SOA adoption, cited by 41% of survey respondents, is “limited visibility for SOA value.” This may be a golden opportunity for CIOs to focus on the end-result of SOA business benefits rather than become enamored by the technology itself. A compelling business context is much easier to sell once a well-defined SOA implementation is fully delivered.

And SOA can also save money. Savings from SOA implementations result in two major undertakings: (1) re-investment in new IT capabilities and (2) direct business impact from SOA enablement to generate new revenue or enable new business capabilities. It’s no surprise that the top factor for implementing SOA, which 50% of survey respondents cited, is “development of new capabilities.”

 

Table of Contents
  • Executive Summary
  • Key Business Value Findings
  • Implications & Analysis
  • Recommendations for Action
  • Chapter One: Issue at Hand
  • Wide Adoption and Experience Remain Scarce
  • SOA Cost Savings Help the IT Budget
  • SOA Permanently Binds the Business with IT
  • SOA Enables the Development of New Capabilities
  • IT Benefits Precede Business Benefits
  • Chapter Two: Key Business Value Findings
  • Put the SOA Architect in Charge of Architecting, Not Project Management
  • The Role of the SOA Architect
  • CIO’s Need to Raise the Visibility of SOA’s Value
  • Experience with SOA Projects Matters
  • Re-tooling IT Skills: Business Analysts Are in Demand
  • Chapter Three: Implications & Analysis
  • How to Quantify SOA’s Value
  • Key SOA Technologies
  • Adoption Rates Vary by SOA Technology
  • Pressures, Actions, Capabilities, Enablers (PACE)
  • Areas of SOA Currently Being Implemented
  • Chapter Four: Recommendations for Action
  • Recommended Actions for all Companies
  • Laggard Steps to Success
  • Industry Norm Steps to Success
  • Best in Class Next Steps
  • Let SOA Provide Better IT Predictability
  • Analysts' Profiles
  • Appendix A: Research Methodology
  • Appendix B: Related Aberdeen Research & Tools
  • About AberdeenGroup
List of Figures
  1. Figure 1: Company Experience with SOA Projects
  2. Figure 2: Top 3 Factors Driving SOA Implementations
  3. Figure 3: Who Leads SOA Efforts in Your Organization?
  4. Figure 4: Top Three Strategic Actions or Plans to Address/Implement SOA
  5. Figure 5: Likely Scenarios in Three years as a Result of SOA Adoption
  6. Figure 6: Areas of SOA Being Implemented
  7. Figure 7: The Three Dimensions of SOA’s Value
  8. Figure 8: SOA Technology Components Use
  9. Figure 9: Areas of SOA Being Implemented or Planning to be Implemented
List of Charts
  1. Table 1: Percent of Current and Planned SOA-Based Software Applications
  2. Table 2: SOA Implementations Challenges and Responses
  3. Table 3: Key SOA Technologies and their Current Adoption
  4. Table 4: PACE (Pressures, Actions, Capabilities, Enablers)
  5. Table 5: Relationship between PACE and Competitive Framework
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