SOA deployments on rise, with broad market adoption, CA survey says |
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By Jack Vaughan
18 Jan 2009 | SearchSOA.com |
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SOA deployments are on the rise and have achieved broad market adoption, according to Prabhjot Singh, vice president of marketing for CA's Wily Application Performance Management business unit. Singh makes his assertion based on data from a recent CA-sponsored survey. He adds, however, that there is a general lack of planning to manage the added complexity that SOA introduces in production settings.
"SOA has been a buzz word for several years, but we have in the last year seen it gain adoption in the businesses we work with," said Singh. "People are deploying SOA as part of their mainstream environments."
The survey disclosed that 73% of organizations have deployed an SOA application.
CA is observing a significant change in the nature of SOA deployments, Singh indicated. "We are seeing that many of the applications are heterogeneous, including both Java and .NET, whereas a few years ago it was only Java," he said.
Yet, according to the survey, as much as 36.4% of organizations do not measure the performance of SOA and Web applications.
The survey results show that between 70.8% and 76.l6% of respondents felt their organization's SOA deployments adequately met expectations. But, in the area of SOA performance, for example, 10% said deployments failed to adequately meet expectations.
Why? Said Singh: "Many of the projects were having issues either with scope creep or because they were designed without an understanding of the production ramifications." With SOA performance, perhaps more than other design styles, good collaboration is needed between IT operations, business stakeholders, and development teams.
The needs are greater, indicated Singh, because, while SOA strives for simplicity, it also introduces a unique level of operations complexity.
While the survey indicates there is room to improve, the CA survey also seems to point to greater mainstream SOA adoption; this, despite a spate of "SOA is dead" stories in the blogopshere. The survey, conducted online by TechWeb in the third quarter of 2008, polled a total of 615 technology professionals ranging from CIOs to IT management staff.
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