In a self-funded study entitled "Benchmarking: Service-Oriented Architecture," Nucleus Research and partner KnowledgeStorm said that while SOA drives developer productivity, SOA often ends with a single project or a few projects, which limits the ability for broad-based SOA to deliver ROI. The study's findings were based on a survey of 106 end-user organizations of various sizes.
In its survey, Nucleus found that fewer than half of enterprises have really adopted SOA.
"[SOA is] pretty far along the hype curve," and is now suffering some backlash, said David O'Connell, senior analyst at Nucleus.
"The findings are that generally, people are not getting a large amount of return on investment on SOA," O'Connell said. "Only a minority of companies are getting a return on investment on SOA."
