<<IBM has 500 consultants available for its recently announced SOA governance practice and is training nearly 90,000 IBM Business Consulting Services employees to help customers with SOA.
Hewlett-Packard added more than 2,000 new consulting and integration customers over the past year, according to Terri Schoenrock, director and global managing principal of the Enterprise Application Services Program Office for HP Services Consulting & Integration. In 2005, SOA consulting and systems integration made up just 3% of the total worldwide consulting and systems integration market, but is projected to grow to just under 20% in 2010, according to International Data Corp. (IDC). And for every dollar of SOA-related software product sold, services companies are generating $6 to $8 dollars of services work around those products, according to IDC's Sophie Mayo, a director for worldwide services, SOA and emerging markets. "You can't build an SOA based on a product you buy. It's a different architectural approach," Mayo said. "Due to the fact that most companies are already strained on resources, if they're serious about expanding across the enterprise I don't see how they can do it without a service provider." That's what the likes of IBM, HP and other services providers are banking on as they aggressively ramp up their SOA practices. Mayo, in fact, believes SOA projects are going to require more services than other types of projects. The reason? Modernization is people intensive, she said, and standardization is not quite "standard" yet. "The two main software players after this market, Oracle and SAP, they're going to have different types of standards and their components not going to work together. A lot of companies will work with both and will need SIs [systems integrators] to integrate those components," Mayo said. "IBM is internally building tons and tons of application components they'll string together in composite applications. Accenture is also building a lot of composite applications based on SAP, Oracle and others. Unfortunately, these things won't work together; you're still going to need [help] unless you have the capability internally or some company comes up with a tool that makes it easy for internal people to do." Initially, SOA is "not going to make people's lives much easier," Mayo said. "We're striving toward standardization, but it will take many years for the nirvana of plug-and-play. And there is so much legacy, and every year we create more legacy.">> You can read this at: <http://searchwebservices.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid26_gci1180190,00.html?track=NL-110&ad=548672> Gervas Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/service-orientated-architecture/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
