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SOA players tap India potential
By siliconindia
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Wednesday, 03 January 2007, 18:30 IST
BANGALORE: The service-oriented architecture (SOA) market is buzzing with activity in India as well as abroad. A Gartner estimate states that by 2008 over 60 per cent of enterprises globally will use SOA as a guiding principle when creating mission-critical platforms. An Aberdeen group report notes 2,000 companies implementing SOA will accrue savings of over $53 billion by 2010.
Service-oriented architecture (SOA), involving the setting up of new applications combining loosely coupled and interoperable services is fast gaining ground in India as well as abroad. A report appearing in the Economic Times cited various studies to support the observation. It said that while a Gartner estimate states that by 2008 over 60 per cent of enterprises globally will use SOA as a guiding principle when creating mission-critical platforms, an Aberdeen group report notes 2,000 companies implementing SOA will accrue savings of over $53 billion by 2010.
In addition to the two studies, the Oracle Grid Index IV report of August 2006 states over 50 percent of Indian firms were actively moving closer to or have already moved to an SOA infrastructure.
"We believe SOA, or 'hot-pluggable solutions', will be the next big transformation as companies opt for open standards-based technology to drive and optimize their business efficiencies," S P S Grover, vice-president (technology sales), Oracle India told the ET.
"An organization will have many applications, such as ERP for logistics and finance, .NET for dotcoms. SOA, in a nutshell, integrates all platforms and business processes, and allows different applications to talk to each other cost-effectively," explained Timothy M Bryan, chairman and CEO of New York-based GalaxE.Solutions.
GalaxE.Solutions, provider of business process and supporting systems, incidentally will be transferring a major part its SOA and service level management-related solutions development work to its Bangalore center.
IBM, Oracle, HP and BEA are the other companies that have announced investments to expand their SOA portfolio and support services in India in the last one year. "In 2007, we plan to diversify to offer SOA solutions for telcos, retail and automotive industries, from this center," said Jeby Cherian, head (global business solution center), IBM India.
Alfred Chuang, chairman and CEO, BEA Systems further told ET, "Although figures pertaining to India are not available, the emerging enterprise, manufacturing and telecom segments in India are likely to adopt SOA in a big way. Apart from that the thrust on e-governance will also advance the SOA market in India."
BEA Systems is also all set to make the Bangalore R&D center the largest one. Hewlett-Packard (HP), in a bid to catch up with its competitors, has opened an SOA competency center in India that will support capability creation and service delivery for HP globally. This forms a part of the company's $500 million global investment plan to deliver world-class SOA offerings.
SAP claims to have over 29 partners in India who work for enterprise service-oriented architecture. "The industry needs will not always be fulfilled if we operate in a vacuum. And so we think a lot of these solutions that come in white spaces, that we have not targeted, will come from these third parties," Atul Sareen, director, Operations, SAP India told the publication.