This is very important research. I hope this will highlight the need for better approaches to SOA Adoption rather than slow down the adoption of SOA as businesses become more "cautious".
With respect to approaches, we recently conducted a survey of 176 customers and prospects of Software AG webMethods and found the following. Please be aware of the selection bias factor as our sample was drawn from our own customer and prospect population. Still, I believe the data is interesting. 91% of respondents stated that Governance was either Critical (54%) or Moderate (37%)in importance for SOA Strategy. yet only 7% of respondents said their approach to governance was "Mature". 65% said their current approach to governance was either non-existent (26%) or Insufficient (39%). Once again, of course subject to sample bias but interesting to consider. I can cite much research (some from Burton Group) stating that governance is important for SOA Success. In my view, one of the big aspects of overcoming application silos is overcoming behavioral silos. This is hard and one of the aspects that is somewhat overlooked in the area of SOA Adoption. If human behaviors dont change, it's hard to effect a systematic change to the agility of IT as experienced by the business. Good governance suggests that we need to measure business value incrementally and continuously and keep reporting the value back to all stakeholders on an ongoing basis. I know that showing incremental value on an ongoing basis is very different from showing complete system transformational value at the "end" of the process. But if we wait until the "conclusion" to show value, it will be too late. my 2 cents, Miko --- In [email protected], "htshozawa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Interesting article. > Just curious Anne, who decided is the project was a success or a > failure and what was the timeframe when the deciding data was measured? > Was it immediately after the project finished or was it may be a year > after? > > I'm just wondering because most people involved in the project will > rate it as a success. :) > > H.Ozawa > > > --- In [email protected], "Gervas > Douglas" <gervas.douglas@> wrote: > > > > According to Burton Group vice president and research director Anne > > Thomas Manes, some users had executed nearly perfectly in terms of > > doing SOA on the IT side, but the initiative had yielded no increased > > agility, quicker time to market or project savings because the > > business remained completely oblivious to the initiative. Yet the > > study also found that users who do break down artificial corporate > > barriers, install proper governance and involve the business have > > runaway success stories to tell. > > >
