Published: April 5, 2006 - 11:06am
This widely reported survey, commissioned by Diagonal, has been extensively covered in both the traditional press and 'blogosphere'. To summarize, over 80% of CEOs and CFOs don't understand SOA (or at least their IT Directors don’t think they do – perhaps there’s a communication problem somewhere) and two-thirds of these same IT Directors believe there is too much marketing and hype around the SOA landscape.
In other news Pope Benedict recently confirmed he is a member of the Catholic Church.
I would hardly expect the CEO or CFO of a large organization to understand the technical underpinnings of the ‘SOA story’ – and why should they? They are concerned with the ways in which technology can help the business, and even then more typically at a product or project level. SOA itself is only as good as the projects it can help deliver, and it will be judged in the boardroom on that basis.
With regard to the hype surrounding SOA, most of this is inevitable and understandable given the current emergent state of the market. The presence of this hype does nothing, however, to negate the very real benefits that many of the features of SOA platforms (loose-coupling, mediation and in-transit integration, etc) will deliver. These features can – and will – form part of the integration infrastructure, but they may also be leveraged in products and solutions that address more specific challenges within the business.
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