More than a third of high-performing companies had adopted SOA, compared with just 14% of their less successful counterparts, the study of more than 750 chief informationofficers and top executives from 317 companies worldwide found.
But consultancy Accenture, which carried out the research during 2005 and 2006, said the successful firms had had to commit to major business change as well as IT change, with 69% saying they had taken “a hard look at their business processes to make sure they fit with enterprise systems”.
The same proportion of high-performing firms had deployed new technologies such as web services, mobile services and SOA.
