75 percent of organizations to use--an ESB to build their SOA.BEA systems BEA Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: BEAS) is one of the major companies developing enterprise infrastructure software. BEA makes middleware, products that help software run on top of databases. have revealed that an overwhelming majority of organizations view the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB (Enterprise Services Bus) A message broker that supports Web services. See message broker, messaging middleware and Web services. ) as a stepping stone to a Service-Oriented Architecture See SOA. (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. ), in a European-wide survey spanning nine countries. Ninety-eight percent of the organizations that took part in the survey said that the next step in the evolution of software infrastructure technology is the dynamic integration backbone of an SOA. Overall, 75 percent of the organizations participating in the survey also stated that they are currently using--or plan to use--an ESB to build their SOA. Elsewhere, the survey also revealed that organizational change management is perceived to be the single most important element to successful SOA implementation (cited by 42 percent of organizations). This is followed by strong leadership and effective on-going Adj. 1. on-going - currently happening; "an ongoing economic crisis" ongoing current - occurring in or belonging to the present time; "current events"; "the current topic"; "current negotiations"; "current psychoanalytic theories"; "the ship's current position" communication (cited by 30 percent of organizations). This is where implementation methodologies, such as the BEA BEA - Basic programming Environment for interactive-graphical Applications, from Siemens-Nixdorf. SOA Six Domain Methodology, play a critical role. The BEA approach encapsulates each of these elements within set of organizational, financial, operational, design, and delivery practices that must be mastered to successfully implement an SOA strategy. Given this importance placed on organizational change management as a gateway to SOA implementation, it is also interesting to note that almost half of the respondents In the context of marketing research, a representative sample drawn from a larger population of people from whom information is collected and used to develop or confirm marketing strategy. (48 percent) cited the Chief Technology Officer as having the most influence on SOA being deployed across an organization. The research also revealed contrasting opinions across Europe towards an ESB as part of an umbrella SOA infrastructure. Thirty percent of customers in the Nordic region (Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden) are currently using an ESB to build their SOA, compared with 18 percent for the rest of Europe. Moreover, 49 percent of the Nordic customers perceived 'management and administration complexity' as the main concerns in developing an SOA, compared with 28 percent for the rest of Europe. www.bea-systems.com |
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