Enterprise lacks SOA skills

Enterprises suffer gaping holes in the skills required for service-oriented architectures (SOAs), reports VNUNet.

More than half of the companies interviewed for a recent IBM survey said they had only 25% or less of the skills required to build a functioning SOA.

Respondents lacked employees with the ability to bridge the gap between IT and business, and had insufficient experience of strategic mapping and modelling, SOA security and governance, and integration.

Wipro Technologies announced it had filed patents for its SOA-based solution e-Enabler, says Business Wire India.

This solution provides an SOA-based platform to align applications to business processes, cuts deployment time and enables faster time to market.

Independent tests have shown that e-Enabler-based implementation results in up to 30% performance gain in applications and up to 15% reduction in developer effort, thereby significantly lowering the total cost of operations.

At the recent Butler Group and Oasis conference on SOA standards and their impact on the public sector, one speaker described the Japanese government`s initiative to use SOA to boost the number of SMEs that conduct direct B2B e-commerce, said CBR Online.

This initiative may prove an example of good foresight, and could help give Japanese small businesses an edge over foreign rivals.

About 99% of all businesses in Japan fall into the small or medium category, and only 8% of these have the capability to conduct B2B electronic commerce. The government`s target is to raise this above 50%, with the help of SOA.