IT spending among enterprises in Asia-Pacific is growing rapidly. The emergence of enterprise integration and the need for flexible business processes is triggering extensive IT adoption, and driving the demand for service-oriented architecture (SOA) as a viable option to achieve competent IT infrastructure.

New analysis from Frost & Sullivan, Asia Pacific SOA Readiness Survey finds that the SOA adoption is expected to increase by 40% in the next two years.

According to Frost & Sullivan research analyst Harikrishna Subramanian, "SOA offers solutions that optimise current business processes and efficiently plan future software adoptions of enterprises that are looking for continuous process improvement with clear visibility of the processes."

SOA offers the means to economise software implementations in the long-run. The increasing penetration of Web services among enterprises in Asia-Pacific is encouraging the deployment of SOA. The spate of mergers and acquisitions in the software market is also driving SOA adoption.

However, the potential growth of the market is hampered by low awareness on SOA.

"Exhaustive implementation case studies and audits, coupled with extensive marketing campaigns on success stories can greatly improve the likelihood of enterprises to consider SOA as a feasible and efficient solution for business issues," claims Subramanian.