Product Description

This IDC study assesses the market opportunity for software revenue driven by service oriented architectures (SOAs) in 2004 and presents a forecast for 2005–2009. Historical and forecast revenue data is shown for the total worldwide market, along with segmentation by primary software market. This study does not contain vendor-specific revenue, market shares, or vendor profiles.

“SOA has had a viral impact on the IT industry at large — to a much greater degree than institutional adoption has incurred thus far. But ‘innovation in moderation’ has been the mode of many enterprises, and SOA-based initiatives are no exception. Those that indeed have made headway proceeding down this path have for the most been pleased with the results thus far and fully acknowledge that it is hard work. However, more robust implementations that stand the test of time need to occur to truly gauge how disruptive this trend will truly bear out to be,” said Sandra Rogers, program director for SOA, Web Services, and Integration research at IDC.

Worldwide SOA-Driven Software 2005-2009 Forecast: On a Course of Disruption