Gartner: SOA-Kompetenzzentren können Unternehmen bis zu 30 Prozent Einsparungen bei Integrationsprojekten bringen

Gartner warned that many ICCs will fail to achieve such savings because of insufficient sponsorship and other organisation execution problems.  “There are three major lethal showstoppers for the ICC,” said Mr Malinverno. “These are unclear corporate governance policies that muddle the ICC’s decisions, the selection of a suboptimal integration-suite product and underestimating integration costs.”

ICCs are mostly found in large companies, which frequently have more than one and federate them through a careful split of the areas of influence.  Most midsize companies haven’t yet created an ICC, but many will as they implement more sophisticated integration tools, web services and SOA projects. 

Gartner said that SOA in itself should not be seen as a quick fix. Survey findings indicate that it takes a considerable amount of time – typically two to three years – before leveraging services covers enough application functionality to reverse increasing IT costs.  Even SOA projects having reuse as a primary objective typically take one to two years to start reducing project cycles.  Despite this, Gartner predicts that organisations with the majority of integration work funnelled through an ICC/SOA centre of excellence are likely to see results sooner than those who take a piecemeal approach. 

Gartner analysts will further explore application architecture and governance, changing software platforms and web and multi-enterprise collaboration at the Gartner SOA and Application Development & Integration Summit, taking place on 25-26 June in London.  The Summit brings together a compelling blend of Gartner expertise, end-users and vendors infour conference tracks, including new research and best practice advice, real-life case studies, interactive panels and solution provider sessions in more than 80 sessions over two days.

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