Survey: Only 37% of enterprises achieve positive ROI with SOA
Nucleus Research and KnowlegeStorm have recently released a report of a survey they did, citing that only 37% of 106 enterprises polled achieved positive Return on Investment (ROI) on their SOA deployments.
Joe McKendrick reacted and said that 37% percent is actually not too bad since most companies are just beginning to learn and implement SOA, furthermore most companies don't know yet how to define KPIs that tie SOA activities and business performance together.
Todd Biske also said that correlating SOA and ROI is difficult since SOA is not a project but rather a way of approaching the technical solution within projects. The way the business is run is what generates ROI. Todd suggest that a better way to measure SOA impact is to look at development costs. Indeed, even the Nucleas survey found that developer productivity improvements were in the range of 28% for companies that adopted SOA.
Another point made in the survey is that SOA adoption rates are relatively low and only 4 out of 10 developers in the surveyed companies practice SOA. Not too surprising considering the incredible amount of hype around SOA.
