This Financial Insights study reports the results of a Financial Insights/IDC survey carried out among European insurance executives in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the United Kingdom on SOA adoption.

This report answers key questions such as:

In particular, according to Angela Vacca, senior research analyst, Financial Insights EMEA, "Insurance companies need to become faster in the development of new business solutions and understand that SOA can be an enabler to achieve this objective. For this reason short-term plans for the adoption of an SOA approach are extremely good."

• Financial Insights Opinion
• In This Report
  • Methodology
    • Conceptual Framework
    • Sample Design
      • Sampling Unit: IDC's Economic Entity
      • Sample Quotas
      • Table: Vertical Market Quotas
      • Table: Company Size Quotas
      • Sample Frame and Sampling Method
      • Table: Number of Completes by Country
    • Respondents
    • Interviews
    • Questionnaires
    • Interview Schedule
    • Confidence Intervals
    • Weighting
    • Analysis of the Data
  • Definitions
    • Service-Oriented Architecture
    • Composite Application
• Situation Overview
  • Business Need
  • Figure: SOA and Western European Insurance Companies: Reasons for Adopting It
  • Management Challenges
  • Figure: SOA: Importance for the IT Organization and IT Suppliers
• The Approach
  • Best-of-Breed Strategies
  • Differentiating the Adopters
    • Composite Application
    • Figure: Composite Applications: Adoption Rate Status in Western European Insurance Companies
    • XML
    • Figure: XML in Banking, Insurance, and Capital Markets
    • Middleware Platforms
    • Figure: NetWeaver: Adoption Rate Status in Western European Insurance Companies
    • Figure: .NET: Adoption Rate Status in Western European Insurance Companies
    • Figure: WebSphere: Adoption Rate Status in Western European Insurance Companies
• Future Outlook
• Figure: SOA and Western European Insurance Companies: Adoption Level
  • SOA Challenges
• Essential Guidance
  • Actions for Financial Institutions
  • Actions for Vendors
• Learn More
  • Related Research
  • Synopsis