Are Enterprises Truly Developing Service Oriented Architectures and What Drives These Deployments?

CUPERTINO, Calif. -- Today's leading enterprises are increasingly looking for new technologies, driven by ongoing pressures to reduce costs. These companies now realize they cannot afford the costs and reduced reliability that come from replacing or rewriting legacy applications that reside on the mainframe, including the wealth of business logic and data, which could be lost or inaccessible during a transition.

Industry analysts estimate that Web services will become the dominant distributed computing architecture in less than 10 years. In fact, this shift has already begun. A spring 2005 survey of 945 IT and business professionals showed that a surprising 59 percent of those surveyed reported having Web services deployed and in production. Although those surveyed seem to be taking an incremental approach to SOA, 35 percent have advanced to governing and managing services, a number of which support composite solutions. (1)

For businesses, adopting new technologies and Web enabling enterprise functions involves risk; there must be enough cost justification and business value to support such a change. Web services provides these benefits to both the business and the IT department. In the survey referenced above, nearly 90 percent of those surveyed reported some form of cost saving as a result of their Web services/SOA initiatives and attributed application reuse at 30 percent, as well as simplified integration and enhanced developer productivity. Additionally, 50 percent reported better integration between systems, and those with shared services reported a 71 percent improvement in the integration between systems.

SOA and Web services, along with host integration technology, open up a window to the legacy world. NetManage provides the foundation for accessing and integrating legacy applications and infrastructure for SOA deployments. NetManage enables the enterprise to rapidly leverage and reuse existing information systems (host and legacy applications, ERPs, CRMs, SCMs and databases), providing interoperability and deployment capabilities of these new solutions with its OnWeb(R) product family. OnWeb's unprecedented flexibility and speed can help transform host applications into Web applications, build composite applications that involve multiple enterprise information systems (EISs) and create reusable components that can be used as building blocks in other applications.

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(1) The survey was administered in spring 2005 by Systinet and WebServices.org, with 945 IT and business professionals responding, making this one of the largest-sample surveys of SOA adoption ever conducted.