Aberdeen research firm recently completed and published a survey of enterprises to face 950, the survey shows "about 1 / 3 to 1 / 2 support of enterprise SOA applications in protecting the stability of the difficulties faced."Report of the SOA for three franchised manufacturers-ITKO, Mindreef, and ProgressActional.
Many companies can not measure the structure of SOA, or even do not know what to measure in the end.
Heard the news about the investigation report of SOA implementation issues, and I would not be surprised, frankly, I think the figures even higher.One that caught my attention: at Aberdeen definition of "equivalent performance of the best" enterprises (ie the performance of the top 20% of companies), only one-third of enterprises use SOA more than 2 years experience in technology, but alsomeans that two-thirds of using the most advanced enterprise SOA technology do not even have two years of experience.SOA for those of us who are new to most of us the wisdom that the best performing companies are still at the exploratory stage.
SOA in the ascendant, so all the businesses surveyed, 77% said there is no return on that SOA is not surprising.However, in the "same level the best-performing" enterprise, 68% said they "invested in SOA to get some positive return," and reduce the cost of SOA application development under.
Why, then, these "best performing similar" enterprise SOA can see the success so early, while other companies still are still hard struggle.
Aberdeen said it was because most of the outstanding performance of enterprises have adopted the design (design-time, is in the development environment by adding controls, setting control or form properties such as ways to build on the application of the time) management, and repeatuse policies to achieve minimum life cycle cost of the services, about 26% of the total cost. Another part of the reason is the excellent performance of these enterprises in more than 80% by the automatic operation and management of SOA solutions.
The results of this study confirmed the strong management and reuse strategies on the role of the successful implementation of SOA.This is more suitable for reducing the cost of SOA, it can shorten the time required for application development and implementation.One particularly important point is that design time management.As the report describes as "the design time management for programmers to reuse existing services, saving time and duplication of the initial programming procedures for the preparation of the same long-term maintenance costs."
However, the success of SOA remains techniques to measure and report.The best performing company was to obtain current success, because they have the resources and know how to create a performance evaluation methods, and can be directly applied to their business.Thus, they can more clearly understand SOA approach (and other technologies) in a field of how to save money, or how to improve some aspect of the business, such as sales growth.
Imagine that we are not, because these companies can measure the results, so from the SOA to see the real benefits, then the existence of other enterprises, the success story yet to be discovered? Maybe.But I believe they know how to measure the results of the enterprises should have a higher success rate.
You can not blame them - SOA is not an exact science.When it comes business growth (relative to the reduction in development costs), even though I have encountered the most leading companies are no accurate way to track the SOA.So far, more than subjective evidence, such as increased developer or user satisfaction.
In the end SOA in driving new sales and win customers with a role on whether, and what role can play is still an unknown.As is shown by the survey, even with outstanding companies are only just two years of experience.