Oracle: Asia-Pacific telcos, banks biggest SOA adopters

11.05.2006
Telecommunications companies and banks are still the biggest adopters of service-oriented architecture (SOA) in Asia-Pacific, said Paul Marriott, senior director for middleware solutions at Oracle Asia-Pacific, during the recently held Oracle Technology Day.

An SOA environment -- one in which application components are built to be modular, reusable, easily integrated, and consumed on the fly -- promises adopters numerous benefits, such as lower costs, less redundancy among IT resources, and fewer people doing the same work. Its potential to improve efficiency and lower costs has an increasing number of enterprise IT shops looking at SOA and industry watchers forecasting big dollars to be spent on SOA-related technologies in the next few years.

'We're seeing a rapid adoption of SOA in Asia-Pacific and acceleration of adoption has been happening now for the last six to 12 months,' said the Oracle executive, adding that telcos and financial services institutions are the most advanced customers of SOA today.