AmberPoint today announced the results of its State of SOA Adoption Survey, which the company conducted to gauge the use of SOA in the enterprise. The research revealed a healthy success rate for SOA as well as notable heterogeneity in SOA environments. According to the survey, SOA applications are most often implemented to solve integration issues, most production SOA systems span multiple departments and the majority of organizations that have deployed SOA applications are meeting their desired goals.

330 IT professionals with an understanding for SOA concepts and methodologies participated in the State of SOA Adoption Survey. The research paints a picture of SOA in the enterprise that is more mature and successful than previous studies have indicated. For example, while 40% of the respondents have SOA-based applications in production, relatively few of these production systems are standalone, single-department systems.