Only a minority of enterprises have adopted service oriented architecture (SOA), despite the hype suurrounding it, new research has found.
Most firms that do use SOA do so only within specific departments or projects, rather than throughout a company, the research from consultancy Saugatuck Technology says.
SOA, as a way of connecting applications across a network via a common communications protocol, can enable enterprises to reuse software and create flexible business processes. But high up-front costs and confusion about what SOA actually is have led to concerns among businesses considering this approach to building IT systems.
