The company found that nearly half of the 400 Web Services programmers surveyed have already participated in successful SOA development efforts, and that SOA development efforts themselves are finishing on time—for the most part.

Service-enablement and service-oriented architecture (SOA) have garnered somewhat mixed reputations, in part—skeptics grouse—because they promise more than they can deliver, ignore obvious people and process problems, and are imperfectly understood by executives and business stakeholders (who tend to focus more on the promise than on the feasibility of pervasive service-enablement).