SOA Discussion Moves From IT Staff Roundtables to Executive Agenda

IBM Press Room dated, 7/10/07 http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/21844.wss

In this report IBM quotes a survey they had the Link Group do and says strategic decisions to adopt a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and what partners should be brought in to do it are shifting away from IT staff to C-level executives and business managers. At least that's what over 60% of the respondents told Link, enough for IBM to say that "business leaders not engaged in the SOA decision-making process will soon find themselves at a competitive disadvantage." Link also found a severe shortage of SOA skills in the market.

The results of this survey may be pointing toward an evolutionary maturity in how organizations approach SOA as an enterprise business solution.