SOA in Asia to be $2.2bn by '10

The Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) market in Asia (excluding Japan)
would become $2.2 billion by 2010, according to a study by Springboard Research.

The report estimates the region's 2007 SOA market to be $810 million. The
region's SOA market would have a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 40
percent from 2006 to 2010, says the Springboard estimate. Australia was the
largest SOA market in the region at $205 million.

“SOA continues to gain traction in the market as more companies are either
implementing SOA or are planning to do so,” said Balaka Baruah Aggarwal, Senior
Analyst-Emerging Software, Springboard Research.

“Awareness has increased substantially in the last year, and we are now
seeing that translate into healthier adoption levels across Asia,” she added.

Improved service delivery and improved integration at both the data and
application levels drive SOA in Asia, said the report.

Mergers and acquisitions (M&As) also drove SOA deployment. Governance
continues to be more important with 85 percent of respondents instituting
governance in SOA deployments and 40 percent having a structure integrated from
the beginning of implementation.

“The main challenge with SOA deployment, as named by survey respondents, is
managing performance and scalability, and 21 percent mentioned this difficulty
as their number one area of concern,” said Aggarwal.

“Additionally, SOA is still largely a technology initiative led by IT
managers as indicated by 68 percent of our surveyed respondents; as such, SOA
has mainly been a technology-driven investment instead of an investment focused
on addressing clear-cut business goals,” added Aggarwal.

IBM tops the SOA vendors in the region, followed by Microsoft, BEA, HP, SAP,
Tibco and Oracle.