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Aberdeen: "The Composite Applications Benchmark Report - How SOA Standards are Accelerating Business Change"Application integration is a major IT headache and takes up about 40 percent of the typical IT budget, according to recent Aberdeen research. A typical enterprise's business processes are found in multiple IT applications, and the service-oriented architecture (SOA), which can encompass web services as well as the integration, business logic, and legacy technologies behind it, is seen as the technological means to solving the application integration problem. However, that research has found that most organizations have not dived deep enough into SOA to have one fully implemented. So, they have turned to building composite applications as fast as they can to deliver more value to line-of-business units, which always takes higher priority over IT's ability to deliver changes. Composite applications contain logic and data collected from multiple IT sources and harnessed with Web services standards such as XML, SOAP, and WS-. These applications are rapidly becoming the development standard of choice in all IT organizations. However, our research has found that composite applications can be built and implemented with Web services and SOA standards even if the organization has yet to fully develop an SOA. This allows IT to respond to the pressure of delivering more value to the business while helping ease the pains of technological integration.
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