| Title: |
Enterprise Applications and SOA? |
| Author: |
David Sprott |
| Publication Date: |
22 September 2004 |
| Report Type: |
Journal |
| Report Class: |
Market Analysis |
| Abstract: |
Most enterprises will start moving down the Service Oriented Architecture route because their enterprise applications take them in that direction. The leading application vendors are all talking the SOA story. But a closer look shows the vendors have very different ideas about what SOA is; the extent to which it will reduce the level of supplier lock-in that exists currently; and crucially how their customers will adopt it. In this report we examine the strategies of the dominant vendors Oracle, Peoplesoft, SAP and Siebel, plus comment on Microsoft activity in this area.
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| Backgrounder: |
Understanding the performance of the application vendors is actually rather interesting from several points of view. Customers will be anxious to understand the vendor strategy because it will potentially have a major impact on their own strategy. Others who do not use enterprise applications will find it useful to look over the fence and assess the strategies, practices and patterns employed by (vendor) organizations that often have planet sized problems.
In assessing the application vendors support for SOA, we are not looking at this from the perspective of new acquisition selection criteria. Rather it's about understanding how your existing suppliers are planning to make radical changes to your application portfolio, and what the impact will be upon your business - both in terms of continuing investment and your ability as a business to respond to change.
A recent survey found that while most of the application vendors have recovered from dire satisfaction ratings a couple of years ago, customers are increasingly prepared and willing to consider changing enterprise application suppliers. For example nearly 30% of SAP professionals who volunteered their opinions said they were more serious about considering SAP competitors this year.
So if you are considering a change, the critical question is what are your assessment criteria both for continuing with existing suppliers and how to assess potential replacement(s)?
In this report we shall commence by considering the vendors' strategic options. We will then examine the status and progress of the major vendors, and make some assessments and comparisons.
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| Report Size: |
11 Pages |
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