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TechTarget/Forrester Research State of SOA Survey for 2010 STATE OF SOA 2010 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY (Draft) June 2010 “SOA IS ENTRENCHED” On the SOA road. Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) has come a long way since it came to industry attention in 2002 as a cure for proliferating, incompatible Web Services. As an industry buzz word SOA does not now fly as high as it used to. At the same time, SOA as an architecture or practice has clearly grown deep roots in technology shops. In IT today, architecture offices and development teams continue to work to cast their application development and integration projects in terms of services that can be reused and interchanged in the future. A look at the TechTarget/Forrester Research State of SOA Survey for 2010 suggests that SOA is in fact broadly entrenched today. Survey results show that 47.4% of respondents work in organizations where SOA projects are underway, and 30.9% have multiple SOA projects underway. In terms of project scope, this work is seen as „enterprise-level‟ in nature in 62.6% of the cases. Formal SOA offices or centers of excellence exist in 13.6% of organizations, up from 9.0% in a comparable 2009 survey. Remarkably perhaps, SOA seems to have withstood the onslaught of significant challenges both concrete and abstract. Use of SOA held firm in the face of the worldwide credit crisis of 2008-2009. Use of SOA has not dropped even as „cloud computing‟ has emerged as an alternative buzz word du jour. While budget stratagems for supporting SOA efforts have changed - tactical BPM efforts have been used to carry st