How Will SaaS and SOA Emerge Together?
So, SOA remains somewhat tactical even at most mainstream enterprises. There is also an important trend line around Software as a Service (SaaS) providers as they build their applications to be consumed and used as services. They might have a deep impact on how SOA is consumed — almost on an outsourced basis rather than a homegrown basis — and we are going to be tracking that carefully. An inhibitor to the business side of the house in enterprises adopting SOA broadly is a lack of discretionary spending in IT for SOA types of investments. There is a lot of confusion around SOA and its values, and what business terms and issues are the motivators. Therefore SOA remains difficult to define and rationalize in purely economic terms. There are a lot of reasons for that. The market is going to work toward a better understanding of the rationale behind businesses as they seek investments in this disruptive technology. We will move from monolithic silos of development and deployment infrastr
