75% of Key Enterprise Decision-Makers Readying Large Investments in Their Service-Oriented Architectures in the Next 12 Months, Says Yankee Group.BOSTON -- Government sector is leading the way According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the Yankee Group (the Yankee Group, Boston, MA, www.yankeegroup.com) A major market research, analysis and consulting firm founded in 1970 by Howard Anderson. It provides general consulting and strategic planning in the computer and communications field. 2004 U.S. Enterprise Web Service Survey, a study of 437 enterprises across the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , senior enterprise buyers within manufacturing, financial services, healthcare and wireless sectors are preparing to invest in service-oriented architecture (SOA (1) (Start Of Authority) The first record in a DNS zone file. See DNS records. (2) (Service Oriented Architecture) The modularization of business functions for greater flexibility and reusability. ) infrastructure development. The related Yankee Group report, The Tipping Point: Service-Oriented Architectures Are Shifting the Integration Paradigm to a Loosely Coupled Enterprise Framework, shows that the government sector leads the way with current deployments--two-thirds of this sector have already laid the SOA groundwork. "The incorporation of new XML-based process-modeling techniques, leveraging the efficiencies delivered by composite applications and Web services, is placing business process logic at the core of application development and dynamic architecture design," says Phil Fersht, Yankee Group Business Applications Group director. "Numerous software companies (including BEA BEA - Basic programming Environment for interactive-graphical Applications, from Siemens-Nixdorf. , SAP, Vitria, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Oracle, TIBCO TIBCO The Information Bus Company and SeeBeyond) have rapidly been developing integration platforms that respond to the needs of the business process in clearly defined code structures, enabling greater reuse of existing code and the creation of composite applications." "There is still a large upfront cost implication to design and build architectures based on this model," continued Fersht. "All of these vendors are focusing their attention on developing more loosely coupled solutions and enabling the management of services within the organization." PRESS CONTACT For interviews, contact Phil Fersht, pfersht@yankeegroup.com. THE YANKEE GROUP (http://www.yankeegroup.com) The Yankee Group is the global leader in communications & networking research and consulting. The company helps businesses understand the opportunities, risks and competitive pressures of developing, deploying and consuming products and services that drive communication or information exchange. Now in its fourth decade, the Yankee Group is based in Boston with offices throughout North America and Europe. |
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