As service-oriented architecture technologies and practices have gained the attention of CIOs and executive teams for showing business value, more and more IT managers are facing the prospect of trying out SOA for the first time. Just last year, SOA expanded by 100 percent, according to a study released by AMR Research. Analyst firm Gartner believes that by 2010 more than 80 percent of large, new systems will use SOA in at least some part of their design.
SOA offers distinct advantages to organizations with distributed and dynamic IT environments.
“The reason we use SOA is to allow things to change without causing them to break,” said Ronald Schmelzer, senior analyst and managing partner at ZapThink. “We're trying to introduce this whole variable and flexible approach.”
