"The promises of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) further spur portal adoptions, as many organizations see portals as either a first practical step toward SOA or a necessary complement to other SOA infrastructure," according to BEA's annual report on the enterprise portal market. The latest report found "that the portal market is growing again at a healthy 15 percent, and CIO surveys confirm for a fifth consecutive year that portal technology remains a strategic spending priority."
The report also made the following statements and conclusions:
* The portal market is expanding to include business process management and usage analytics technologies...