November | 2014
Adoption of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) caught momentum several years ago in the IT industry. With organizations increasingly investing in technology, governance process and delivery aspects of SOA, the overall maturity levels have increased over the years. According to Gartner, organization’s spending on application integration is predicted to increase by 33% by the year 20161, however, the million-dollar question is - have these huge investments in SOA resulted in proportionate gains and benefits for organizations?
Wipro recently conducted a technology survey and analyzed the current trends and practices of various organizations in the SOA and Integration landscape so as to understand the correlation of their investments to value realization. The findings indicates that 40% of the organizations surveyed fall in the “High SOA Maturity” cluster signifying the fact that SOA is not just a white elephant2
While the above figure kind of vindicates the “what you sow is what you reap” philosophy, the question is - what have organizations done right that has made them perform significantly better than their peers in their SOA journey? Here are some findings from our survey:
There remain instances wherein SOA adoption has not provided the expected benefits, which is primarily because of the challenges with regard to integration, governance, ownership, adoption, and skilled resources, depicted below.
Based on the current trends and initiatives as well as its impact on the value realization observed in high and low SOA maturity organizations, our key recommendations and best practices for NextGen SOA are:
A detailed analysis of the report comprising of several interesting data points related to current and future trends across business domains and a deep-dive into the recommendations provided above is available here.
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