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http://bea.com/news LONDON—May 22, 2006—BEA Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: BEAS) a world leader in enterprise infrastructure software, today revealed that an overwhelming majority of organizations view the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) as a stepping stone to a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), in a European-wide survey spanning nine countries.
Ninety-eight percent of the organizations that took part in the survey said that the next step in the evolution of software infrastructure technology is the dynamic integration backbone of an SOA. Overall, 75 percent of the organizations participating in the survey also stated that they are currently using—or plan to use—an ESB to build their SOA.
Elsewhere, the survey also revealed that organizational change management is perceived to be the single most important element to successful SOA implementation (cited by 42 percent of organizations). This is followed by strong leadership and effective on-going communication (cited by 30 percent of organizations). This is where implementation methodologies, such as the BEA SOA Six Domain Methodology, play a critical role. The BEA approach encapsulates each of these elements within set of organizational, financial, operational, design, and delivery practices that must be mastered to successfully implement an SOA strategy. Given this importance placed on organizational change management as a gateway to SOA implementation, it is also interesting to note that almost half of the respondents (48 percent) cited the Chief Technology Officer as having the most influence on SOA being deployed across an organization.
The research also revealed contrasting opinions across Europe towards an ESB as part of an umbrella SOA infrastructure. Thirty percent of customers in the Nordic region (Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden) are currently using an ESB to build their SOA, compared with 18 percent for the rest of Europe. Moreover, 49 percent of the Nordic customers perceived ‘management and administration complexity’ as the main concerns in developing an SOA, compared with 28 percent for the rest of Europe.
“The service infrastructure layer has emerged to provide vital supporting technologies to help SOA become a reality—the most important being the Enterprise Service Bus,” says Martin Percival, Senior Technology Evangelist, EMEA, BEA Systems. “BEA seamlessly delivers the integration capabilities of an Enterprise Service Bus with operational service management in one, unified solution. This accelerates service publishing, configuration and deployment, simplifies the management of shared services across the SOA, and future-proofs the SOA from on-going service endpoint changes.”
Martin Percival continues, “We are excited that Forrester has recognized BEA as a leader in the Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Service Bus, ESB Suites, Q4 ‘05 and Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Service Bus, Comprehensive ESB Suites, Q4 ’05.”
ESBs deliver the key capabilities that enable services to interact dynamically: a service registry for publishing services, service versioning, and message brokering, dynamic routing and transformation between services. ESBs are expected to support message and transport security as well. They typically act as distributed intermediaries, enabling the policies associated with routing rules, transformations, security and access to be abstracted from the endpoints.
The survey was conducted among 571 delegates who attended the BEA Enterprise Service Bus seminar series. These events took place in Copenhagen, Paris, Frankfurt, Stockholm, Munich, Oslo, Helsinki, Madrid, Milan, Rome and Warsaw,
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