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The Aberdeen Group SOA Governance Report: Planning for an Optimized SOA Application Lifecycle

How are the Best in Class companies driving down IT maintenance and development costs, increasing reuse and getting better results? Measure your own SOA progress against the market with this fresh and insightful fact-based research from Aberdeen Group. A $399 value, with complimentary download sponsored by ITKO.

Between a third and half of the 950 companies we surveyed in 2006 are having serious difficulties getting their SOA-enabled applications into stable deployment. The survey for this report shows that the predominant reason for these difficulties is inexperience exacerbated by inadequate tools for the automated management and governance of the growing plethora and complexity of web services and applications under an SOA.

There are four characteristics of the top-performing 20% of the companies - the Best in Class - in our survey:

• The Best in Class are most likely (33%) to have more than two years experi- ence with SOA technology;
• 68% of the Best in Class are achieving positive ROI on their SOA investments and are seeing lower application development costs under SOA, while 77% of the overall survey has yet to see an SOA payback achieved;
• The Best in Class companies have implemented design-time governance and re-use policy to minimize lifecycle service costs compared to 26% overall. Close to half of the Best in Class have set minimizing application software lifecycle costs as a measurable management objective.
• More than 80% of the Best in Class have implemented an automated solution to SOA operations and governance, typically with third-party software.