More organizations are implementing service-oriented architecture (SOA) as a business enabler.
That is what Forrester Research Inc. found in its annual SOA adoption survey published this month. The survey has shown steady growth in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific during the past three years, but 2007 was a banner year, says Randy Heffner, vice president at Forrester Research Inc. That helps explain the survey title, "SOA Adoption: Many Firms Got Started in 2007".
"The IT industry is continuing its strong adoption of SOA, according to Forrester's latest survey data," Heffner writes. "A year ago, our data highlighted a general slowness in moving from SOA planning to actual use of SOA. This slowness disappeared in 2007's data, with strong growth in current use of SOA across North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific regions."
