IT directors’ interest in service-oriented architectures (SOAs) is set to grow and is likely to have a major impact on firms’ application purchasing decisions.
That is the view of senior executives at SOA tool providers IBM and BEA, who last week insisted the concept of standards-based architecture to let firms combine and reuse application components is gaining support as more companies roll out pilot projects.
Bruce Graham, vice-president at BEA, said a recent global survey of 500 IT and business professionals by analyst IDG Research showed SOA adoption had started to take off in the past year. The proportion of respondents designating SOA as a high or critical priority for the next three to five years was 79 percent, up from 61 percent in the previous year’s study.
