IT leaders are eager to embrace the benefits of service-oriented architecture (SOA), but many are frustrated by the dearth of best practice available to guide strategies.
A shift to SOA will help IT improve service quality, lower costs and accelerate market-beating business developments, Ruediger Spies, enterprise applications vice president at IDC, told delegates at the analyst group’s recent SOA conference. But many organisations struggle to make headway with their SOA strategies.
One SOA enthusiast is the Ministry of Defence (MoD). It is piloting an SOA-enabled command and control programme, designed to enhance its logistics operations.
