Most commercial and government organizations still see SOAs as disruptive, said Jason Bloomberg, a senior analyst at market watcher ZapThink.

Agency officials understand that if they move ahead with an SOA, they’ll run into arguments about control, politics, funding and nontechnical issues that result from building shared services.

“For a lot of vendors, SOA is an opportunity to come out with new and improved products, so it’s a bandwagon that a lot of companies are jumping on,” Bloomberg said. “However, it’s hard to come up with a product that actually helps people with SOA.”

Nevertheless, he said he believes that agencies eventually will deploy SOAs.

“Most organizations have SOA as part of their road maps, and some have pilots under way or have rolled out departmental SOAs,” Bloomberg said. “There’s a significant ramp-up on the way [of SOA deployments], but full-blown enterprise SOAs are still a ways away.”

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