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From the News Desk
Friday, 27. July 2007
SOA Discussion Moves From IT Staffers to Business Executives
The strategic decisions to adopt a service oriented architecture (SOA) are shifting away from the realm of IT staffers to business executives. SOA is a business strategy that helps a company reuse existing technology to more closely align it with business goals, driving efficiencies, cost savings, productivity, and enabling the creation of more modular and global business designs.
The IBM survey validates a fundamental commitment to SOA as the future of process and application design -- with both significant increases in budgets and the number of SOA projects aimed at new business challenges. At the same time, the survey also found that there is an increasing need for training staff so they possess the unique combination of both business and IT skills required for a business to realize the potential of SOA.
The survey also revealed that 67 percent of the respondents said the key decision makers responsible for moving to an SOA strategy are business leaders including C-level executives and business managers. Additionally, 65 percent of clients said that business leaders are also primarily responsible for selecting an IT partner to help achieve business goals in an SOA.
"Business leaders not engaged in the SOA decision making process will soon find themselves at a competitive disadvantage," said Robert LeBlanc, general manager Business Consulting Services and SOA, IBM. "With its focus on optimizing and automating specific business processes and eliminating redundant ones, it is business leaders that will drive the adoption of SOA from early stages to enterprise wide adoption."
Additional findings include:
SOA for Indian Enterprise IT Audience
The market for SOA, including software, services and hardware, will reach billion by 2007, according to IDC. The trend is corroborated by a Springboard Research report that predicts the Indian SOA market to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 49 percent from 2006-2009, making it the fastest growing market in the region. While the average Indian IT professional's SOA learning curve is low, the biggest hurdle to deployment is often met at the level of executive buy-in, where "business results" take importance over "cutting-edge".
In November 2007, SDA India Magazine and sda-india.com present the first of its kind business and technical conference on Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) to the Indian Enterprise IT community of CIOs, CTOs, Management, IT directors, IT managers, IT architects, Network and Infrastructure specialists, Project Managers, Project Leaders, and Software Architects. SOA India 2007 will feature two separate, but parallel, tracks for a business and technical audience. Other fringe topics that will be part of the larger discussion include: Business Process Modeling (BPM), Agile best practices, BPEL, SaaS, MDM, BI, and Enterprise 2.0. If you are responsible for business optimization, designing, developing and/or implementing your organization's IT strategy this conference will equip you with the tools and information you need to implement a company wide SOA solution that deploys agile, manageable, and secure technology.
What You Can Expect at SOA India 2007
Avail of 'Very Early Bird' discounts by sigining up before 27 August. Visit soaindia2007.com.
The IBM survey validates a fundamental commitment to SOA as the future of process and application design -- with both significant increases in budgets and the number of SOA projects aimed at new business challenges. At the same time, the survey also found that there is an increasing need for training staff so they possess the unique combination of both business and IT skills required for a business to realize the potential of SOA.
The survey also revealed that 67 percent of the respondents said the key decision makers responsible for moving to an SOA strategy are business leaders including C-level executives and business managers. Additionally, 65 percent of clients said that business leaders are also primarily responsible for selecting an IT partner to help achieve business goals in an SOA.
"Business leaders not engaged in the SOA decision making process will soon find themselves at a competitive disadvantage," said Robert LeBlanc, general manager Business Consulting Services and SOA, IBM. "With its focus on optimizing and automating specific business processes and eliminating redundant ones, it is business leaders that will drive the adoption of SOA from early stages to enterprise wide adoption."
Additional findings include:
- SOA Skills: there is a shortage of required SOA skills in the marketplace today. Currently, half the respondents of the survey said they have less than 25 percent of the necessary SOA skills to help their company meet long term goals. However, 80 percent of respondents are increasing SOA skills in their company this year, with more than 60 percent focused on retraining existing staff on SOA. A combination of business and IT skills was cited by 68 percent of the respondents as prerequisite to applying SOA to meet business goals.
- SOA Budgets: as has been reported by many leading analysts, today's successful companies are allocating a substantial portion of their IT budgets to SOA projects. This year 40 percent of respondents indicated that between 10 and 30 percent of overall IT budgets are being spent on SOA projects. Additionally 53 percent of respondents indicated that their budgets for SOA projects for 2007 increased between 10 and 20 percent compared to 2006.
- Reasons for Using SOA: to help clients keep up with the rapidly changing and competitive market, 75 percent of the respondents said the primary reason for implementing SOA is to meet new business goals, versus 25 percent that cited fixing existing business problems.
SOA for Indian Enterprise IT Audience
The market for SOA, including software, services and hardware, will reach billion by 2007, according to IDC. The trend is corroborated by a Springboard Research report that predicts the Indian SOA market to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 49 percent from 2006-2009, making it the fastest growing market in the region. While the average Indian IT professional's SOA learning curve is low, the biggest hurdle to deployment is often met at the level of executive buy-in, where "business results" take importance over "cutting-edge".
In November 2007, SDA India Magazine and sda-india.com present the first of its kind business and technical conference on Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) to the Indian Enterprise IT community of CIOs, CTOs, Management, IT directors, IT managers, IT architects, Network and Infrastructure specialists, Project Managers, Project Leaders, and Software Architects. SOA India 2007 will feature two separate, but parallel, tracks for a business and technical audience. Other fringe topics that will be part of the larger discussion include: Business Process Modeling (BPM), Agile best practices, BPEL, SaaS, MDM, BI, and Enterprise 2.0. If you are responsible for business optimization, designing, developing and/or implementing your organization's IT strategy this conference will equip you with the tools and information you need to implement a company wide SOA solution that deploys agile, manageable, and secure technology.
What You Can Expect at SOA India 2007
- Strong selection of industry experts from North America, Europe, Asia Pacific
- Over 30 intense, power packed sessions on aligning IT with business
- Cutting-edge content guaranteed to provide you with the tools and information you need to implement a company wide SOA solution
- Real-world business advice from Enterprise IT decision makers
- First-hand information about new vendor products and services
Avail of 'Very Early Bird' discounts by sigining up before 27 August. Visit soaindia2007.com.
