IDC MAPs - Market Advisory Portfolios

Meet Our Team

Marianne Hedin
Program Manager, Worldwide Services and Services-Oriented Architecture: The Services Opportunity

Sandra Rogers
Program Director, SOA, Web Services, and Integration

Patrick Chan
Chief Technology Advisor, IDC Asia/Pacific Emerging Technologies

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ONGOING ANALYSIS

Many IT industry participants first saw SOA as another standards and application development paradigm wave that would wane, but this round may be different, especially when embracing the SOA movement with a macro view and holistic enterprise perspective. To date, those that tend to espouse this latter orientation have made SOA work for their enterprises. IT executives within these ranks often note that although they are adopting SOA incrementally, the key is to plan and architect globally and work toward the enterprise-caliber blueprint. As SOA deployments expand, users will need to better understand and plan for the impact that can be unleashed with adopting SOA on an enterprise scale. Vendors of SOA solutions and infrastructure will need to better address hybrid and expanded footprints, as well as the unpredictable challenges that will be unearthed as SOA moves applications out of the comfort of individually controlled sandboxes into the global sea of networked technology.