SOA filling the Gaps

In a previous post titled:  Technology Predictions for 2015: Trivial, Over Estimated and Interesting , I analyzed  IDC's 2015 Technological Predictions. This post is dedicated to Gartner's top ten Strategic Technology Trends for 2015 . In addition of reading Gartner's prediction hyperlinked above, I read TechRepublic's article: Gartner's top 10 technology trends for 2015: All about the cloud . Methodological notes 1. Classifying of a prediction as Trivial does not imply that it is no t valid and does not imply that it should not be included in analysts' prediction. 2. A prediction could be classified as Over Estimated in different circumstances: a. The Technology is not so important as the analyst classified it.  It may vanish in Long Term or its use will be less prevalent than the analyst predict it will or its use will provide less Value than predicted so it will not be so important.   b. It is so immature that it will take longer time than speculate...

As promised in previous post , this post includes an English version of my presentation in the Israeli Systems Analysis Conference on March 13th.

image Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia T he headline depicts my impression from a Research Note written by Burton Group 's analyst, Craig Roth . The Research Note describes and analyzes the results of a new SaaS survey conducted by Burton Group and Ziff Davi s Enterprise. It is not just a survey. Some of the participants were asked to explain their answers. The explanations provide another layer of understanding: Why (explanations) in addition to What (the answers). Some of the findings are in accord with my expectations (I assume that my expectations are not very different from expectations of other people who read articles on SaaS), but there were also findings I would not expect to find. It should be noted that all the 318 participants reside in USA and Canada , therefore extrapolating the conclusions to other parts of the globe could be misleading. Reasons for implementing SaaS The obvious reason is cost reduction, but a lower cost was...