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Demand for Service Oriented Architecture-Related Change Management Services Grows, but Transition Proves Challenging
The demand for organizational change management (CM) services related to service oriented architecture (SOA) is steadily increasing and will continue to grow in the coming years, a new study from IDC finds. As clients move up the SOA adoption curve and start to engage in broader enterprise-wide and more strategic engagements with a compounding level of business complexity, managing change with focus on the people and organizational factors becomes increasingly critical.
"Although this market is relatively nascent today, it is expected to become an important opportunity for service vendors in the next couple of years," said Marianne Hedin, program manager, Worldwide Services research.
This report also reveals that the transition to SOA is not always an easy one. Companies are realizing that implementing SOA means far more than addressing such tangible and relatively straightforward problems as integration and consolidation of applications. The burden of SOA implementation typically falls most heavily on the people and organizational side of the enterprise, where new skills and responsibilities have to be introduced along with attention to the business requirements, and to the much tighter relationship between IT and business.
Additional key highlights of this study include:
- So far, most of the CM growth has occurred among the large enterprises that have been much earlier adopters of SOA than medium-sized or small companies.
The financial services, telecom, government, and to some extent utility (energy) sectors have represented the primary markets for SOA-related CM services – again, because they have been the early SOA adopters to address their need to manage IT complexity and its escalating maintenance cost. - The retail and travel and hospitality sectors will most likely represent the next wave of clients with a need for SOA-based CM.
This IDC study, SOA-Driven Organizational Change Management: A Market Trends and Vendor Landscape Analysis of Major Service Players to Address This Emerging Opportunity (IDC #204727) examines broad market trends and the vendor landscape, focusing on eight service providers with respect to service oriented architecture (SOA)—based organizational change management (CM). The eight major service providers that IDC interviewed were Accenture, BEA, Capgemini, CSC, Deloitte, Keane, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), and Wipro. This document focuses on four major areas pertinent to SOA-based CM including: market trends and dynamics; services vendor strategy, focus, and capabilities; competitive differentiators among the service vendors and; client examples.
