SOA Tools
Key Findings:
- Service-oriented architectures built upon open, standards-based Web Services provide a strategic IT direction businesses need to meet their fundamental business goal: agility.
- By 2010, ZapThink expects 69% of the total enterprise software market to be Service-oriented.
- The overall market for products and services that support Service orientation will be over $98 billion by 2010.
- Reworking existing brittle, high-cost IT infrastructures into flexible, Service-oriented architectures promises substantial long-term cost savings and revenue opportunities through increased business agility.
- Service orientation represents the latest distributed computing approach to affect IT — the fourth major shift since the mid-twentieth century.
- ZapThink predicts that companies will begin to accept Service orientation in 2003, and it will become the dominant distributed computing approach by 2006.
Table of Contents:
- I. Report Scope
- II. Context for Service-Oriented Architectures
- 2.1. What is a Service-Oriented Architecture?
- 2.1.1. Evolution of Distributed Computing
- 2.2. Business Motivations for SOAs
- 2.2.1. The Economics of Business Agility
- 2.1. What is a Service-Oriented Architecture?
- III. Foundations of SOA
- 3.1. SOA Foundation: Model-Driven Architecture
- 3.2. SOA Foundation: Agile Methodologies
- 3.3. The SOA Metamodel
- 3.4. The 4+1 View Model of SOA
- IV. Market Segmentation
- 4.1. Current State of the Market
- V. Business and Technology Trends
- 5.1. Long Term Trends: A Shift in the Favored Approach to Distributed Computing
- 5.2. Long-Term Trends: Grid/Utility Computing
- 5.3. Inhibitors to Growth of Service Orientation and SOAs
- VI. Conclusions
- 6.1. Key Notes
- 6.2. Decision Points
- 6.3. Best Practices
- 6.4. Figures
- 6.5. Tables
- VII. Profiled Vendors