{"id":83,"date":"2006-09-28T09:16:49","date_gmt":"2006-09-28T17:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.formtek.com\/blog\/?p=83"},"modified":"2006-09-28T09:16:49","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T17:16:49","slug":"soa-adoption-stats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/soa-adoption-stats\/","title":{"rendered":"SOA Adoption Stats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Analyst reports are confirming that adoption of SOA is growing, but just how fast is another question.\u00a0 And depending on which industry you&#8217;re looking at the numbers are quite different.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The <a title=\"Aberdeen Group\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aberdeen.com\" target=\"_blank\">Aberdeen Group<\/a>\u00a0report\u00a0&#8220;<a title=\"SOA acceptance\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aberdeen.com\/summary\/report\/benchmark\/RA_IT_ESB_PK_3170.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Enterprise Service Bus and SOA Middleware<\/a>&#8221; published in June and sponsored by <a title=\"IBM\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ibm.com\/us\/\" target=\"_blank\">IBM<\/a>, <a title=\"Tibco\" href=\"http:\/\/tibco.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">TIBCO<\/a> and <a title=\"Fiorano\" href=\"http:\/\/fiorano.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fiorano<\/a> finds that 90% of their survey respondants of 120 IT and business professionals expected to have had some level of SOA planning, design or programming completed before the end of 2006.<\/p>\n<p>In July, a survey from <a title=\"Evans Data\" href=\"http:\/\/www.evansdata.com\/n2\/index.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Evans Data<\/a> of 400 respondents\u00a0<a title=\"Evan's Data survey\" href=\"http:\/\/ce.tekrati.com\/research\/News.asp?id=7480\" target=\"_blank\">showed<\/a> acceptance of SOA, but not at such high levels.<br \/>\n&#8211; 24% of developers said that they&#8217;ve used SOA techniques, up 85% from the previous year<br \/>\n&#8211; More than 30% will be using more than 20 Web Services by the end of the year, up 58% from the previous year.<br \/>\nJohn Andrews of Evans Data said &#8220;While we are still at the beginning of this major software architecture shift, it is clear that the benefits of both SOA and Web Services are beginning to be realized.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image84\" alt=\"Evans Data Results\" src=\"http:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/EvansData.bmp\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Gartner&#8217;s <a title=\"Gartner Report\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gartner.com\/DisplayDocument?doc_cd=132048\" target=\"_blank\">report<\/a> from November 2005 found that SOA was growing, especially in vertical sectors that are highly dependent on Information Services.\u00a0 They looked at Banking, Insurance, Investment, Healthcare, Government, Oil and Gas, and Media.\u00a0 Of these, banking, insurance, investment and healthcare are the industries with the leading adopters, banking having an adoption rate as high as 78%.<\/p>\n<p>One area that shows up as an exception is government.\u00a0\u00a0A Merlin SOA Coalition did\u00a0<a title=\"SOA Adoption in the Government\" href=\"http:\/\/itmanagement.earthweb.com\/article.php\/3634251\" target=\"_blank\">survey<\/a> of IT workers that paints a different picture than what&#8217;s happening in industry.\u00a0 Merlin consists of <a title=\"Amberpoint\" href=\"http:\/\/amberpoint.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Amberpoint<\/a>, <a title=\"Systinet and Mercury\" href=\"http:\/\/systinet.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Systinet\/Mercury<\/a> and <a title=\"BEA\" href=\"http:\/\/bea.com\" target=\"_blank\">BEA<\/a>.\u00a0 The survey covered 196 government IT professionals and it found that only 17% of respondents were involved with SOA and one third of the SOA projects they were involved with\u00a0were considered to have been failures.<!--8739f82c4e5d99f6d51db4c862b7b234--><\/p>\n<div class=\"lightsocial_container\"><div class=\"lightsocial_element\"><a class=\"lightsocial_a\" 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