Quite frequently in this blogsite, I've talked about most shared-service implementations being more JBOWS (Just a Bunch of Web Services) than truly functioning SOAs. Now, a new study out of Saugatuck ...

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A recent study from market watcher Gartner Inc. suggests that in some cases SOA adopters might be service-enabling chiefly for the sake of service-enabling. In approximately 40 percent of cases, ...

Lately on this site, we have been discussing the investments necessary to get SOA going, and where the money will come from. A new study of 120 companies out of Aberdeen says organizations can shave ...

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Although SOA efforts are still early-stage at most organizations, systems integrators who work for government agencies are concerned that SOA efforts might put them out of a job. So says the Input ...

Among 300 clients polled at IBM's recent SOA conference, 42 percent said SOA is their organization's top spending priority Forty-two percent of respondents to a recent IBM-funded study said SOA is the ...

Participation by carriers in a long-term care insurance feasibility study is “not what we hoped for,” said Kate Eubank of the Society of Actuaries Research Institute. Eubank, the SOA’s senior ...

My good friend Brenda M. Michelson, who’s been on the SOA report podcast in the past, is working with the SOA Consortium around a SOA case study contest. The consortium’s Web site explains: Similar to ...

LIMRA and the Society of Actuaries (SOA) Research Institute announced today a new three-year partnership to collect and process data to be used in industry-wide experience studies. Through this ...

A recent study from market watcher Gartner Inc. suggests that in some cases SOA adopters might be service-enabling chiefly for the sake of service-enabling. In approximately 40 percent of cases, ...