Aberdeen SOA ERP

Aberdeen research has shown that there is 90% of one billion plus turnover companies are looking to or are deploying SOA.

These companies will need large budgets to move on to the SOA bandwagon with 40% of their IT budgets going to making this big leap.

There are three camps emerging

SOA Lite is for users who are primarily deploying web services that do not require mission-critical capabilities such as high-volume scalability, high availability and failover, management, governance, and security.

SOA ERP is used by companies that are choosing to deploy SOA surrounding their ERP application software.

Enterprise SOA requires and uses mission-critical SOA middleware suite capabilities

From the SOA ERP camp Aberdeen expects mostly Mid-Size Companies and some Large and Small Companies to opt into this category based on the following characteristics:

• The ERP vendor is a trusted supplier to the organization, and the relationship is
working;
• Business processes revolve around the ERP application software’s features, and
there are modest integration challenges with applications surrounding the ERP
package;
• A strong desire to get more intelligence out of the ERP application without extensive
custom programming due to limited skills or resources;
• Service-level expectations are in line with existing SLAs for the ERP package;
Enterprise Service Bus: An SOA Middleware Foundation
• Willingness to live with the SOA product features and development cycle of the
ERP vendor;
• Business transformation outside the limits of the ERP package are modest or not
expected.

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