Most SOA implementations are now successful, with nearly four out of ten enterprises meeting all their goals and 60 percent meeting most of them.
That's according to a survey carried out by SOA governance company Amberpoint, which found that 38 percent of SOA installations met their targets. The company also found that just 1.5 percent of SOA projects ended in failure – a figure well below the industry average for all software projects.
Ed Horst, Amberpoint's VP of marketing was surprised by this particular result and could offer no explanation for it. He did point out that a number of respondents say that they had decided not to proceed with an SOA project, but even if these were taken into account, the number of failures still wouldn't reach five percent.
