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SOA: Middleware Market is Set to Double in Size
Here’s another sign that SOA is not on it’s deathbed: the market for SOA middleware software is expected to more than double by 2016. That’s fairly healthy growth. A report by Wintergreen Research estimates that the SOA middleware market is currently clocking in at $3.5 billion, but they expect that it will grow to $8.2 billion by 2016. That works out to about 15 percent annual growth.
Much of the growth is coming as a result from people’s strong interest in the cloud. The report says that “As cloud markets evolve and users only pay for the capacity they use, SOA becomes a significant aspect of all markets going forward. SOA strategies relate to providing a middleware to manage different application access in ways that position software with a more flexible capability.”
There is also a move underway to move away from standard internet transport-layer protocols like HTTP, HTTPS, and Java message service (JMS) is being upgraded to MQ-based message services, and some of the growth will come as infrastructures change.
The report cites the benefit that companies are realizing from SOA is that it “can leverage the Internet and Internet-based standards, and has the potential to dramatically increase automated process between partners.” This leads to to “more effective integration with business partners, better supply chain collaboration, increased global sourcing and more effective use of external service providers.”
There’s another report on SOA that’s out that comes to a similar conclusion. That report was issued by Global Industry Analysts and estimates that the entire SOA software market, not just middleware, is growing rapidly and will reach $21 billion by 2015. [But then different analysts use different sets of parameters when defining markets and the players in them. Gartner Dataquest, for example, says that the SOA market is $160 billion.]
