SOA Research - Gartner's 2007 SOA Predictions:

·         Service-oriented architecture (SOA) will be used in part in more than 50% of new, mission-critical applications and business processes designed in 2007, and in more than 80% by 2010 (0.7 probability).

·         More than 80% of current (2006) production-deployed applications will be partly or fully re-engineered by 2011 to participate in the then-prevailing SOA-style business-driven application composition (0.8 probability).

·         By 2011, more than 65% of packaged applications' users will adopt "SOA enabled" versions of their core business application products (0.8 probability).

·         By 2010, more than 40% of SOA projects will use a centrally managed extended service registry, up from less than 5% in 2006 (0.7 probability).

·         By 2010, SOA services administration at more than 60% of enterprises deploying SOA-style services will be managed by designated Service Registry Administrators (SRAs); 0.8 probability).

·         By 2011, more than 80% of large organizations will implement multiple SOA backplane infrastructures (0.8 probability).

·         By 2010, more than 80% of all software infrastructure products will embed enterprise service bus (ESB) technology or require ESB technology as a prerequisite (0.7 probability).

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Gartner - Predicts 2007: SOA Advances
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Gary E. Smith
SOA Network Architect