The firm conducted a survey of 950 companies and found that as much as half had "serious difficulties" when it came to establishing stable deployments for their SOA-enabled applications. That finding is part of free white paper, "Management and Governance: Planning for an Optimized SOA Application Lifecycle," sponsored by Progress Software, iTKO and Mindreef.
The main reason for the difficulties, according to the report, were a lack of SOA experience and a lack of automated management and governance tools.
The report assessed the companies in the study as having various stages of SOA acumen. It classified them, based on their SOA expertise, as being "laggards," "industry average" or "best-in-class."
