Today, global businesses are increasingly turning to Service Oriented
Architecture (SOA) for their information technology infrastructure and
applications. SOA is becoming an increasingly practiced approach to building
software solutions as it can support integration and consolidation of
activities in complex enterprise systems.
This year the percentage of functioning SOAs has almost doubled, according to
Evans Data Corporation's latest Web Services development survey: "Twenty-four
percent of respondents (the sample data set being 400) are saying they
currently implement SOA, an 85% increase from last year." The survey also
shows that Web Services are now experiencing more comprehensive
implementation, with 30% of respondents predicting they will be using more
than 20 s... (more)