Firms’ adoption of service-oriented architecture (SOA) is being hampered by the reluctance of department managers to fully fund initiatives if the benefits will be shared by other departments, according to senior executives at IBM.
Speaking to IT Week at the vendor's SOA business-centric summit in London, they said arguments over which departments should control and fund particular IT services are "the number one inhibitor" to widespread adoption of SOAs. Advocates of SOAs claim these systems deliver more flexible applications by allowing firms to deploy reusable components.
