The majority of organisations perceive service oriented architecture (SOA) as a key enabler to the effective use of Web 2.0 technologies in the enterprise.

A survey of 330 respondents in 11 European countries conducted Vanson Bourne reveals that 55 per cent of organisations view SOA at the best way to support the use of social networking and Web 2.0 development techniques in their IT infrastructure.

The European Business Innovation Survey sponsored by software vendor BEA also found that web services is the most popular web technology that organisations will use in the next 12 months as part of their Web 2.0 strategy (cited by 57 per cent of respondents). Collaboration technologies were next most popular for 32 per cent, followed by blogs (27 per cent).