This is what many CIOs are learning the hard way, according to Ovum Summit, the analyst and consulting company. Successful SOA deployments demand state-of-the-art IT management strategies.
Ovum Summit recently conducted a survey of 333 North American IT decision makers representing a mix of enterprise and mid-market customers. The survey identified strong connections between an organization's commitment to managing IT as a set of services and the success of their SOA implementation.
Mary Johnston Turner, Ovum Summit vice president and author of the survey commented: "Our survey strongly indicates that successful SOA deployments need to be supported with management strategies that take an end-to-end, cross-tier look at the dependencies and relationships across the full set of systems and software used to enable end-to-end business services. Traditional IT management approaches assume tight connections between systems and applications while SOA environments are much more loosely coupled.
