"SOA is not something you chose to do. It will happen to you whether you chose it or not," stated Daryl Plummer, a managing vice president at Gartner, during his Monday keynote. "When you buy your next upgrade you will have SOA in it. It is just a matter of how you chose to use it."
Throughout the first day of the show, Gartner analysts talked up their approach to SOA governance, called SOA Portfolio. They keyed on bringing discipline and tracking to the SOA implementation process, making sure that each project delivers ROI. To make SOA more effective, a system of order is necessary, they said, so that it can align business and technology.
"Portfolio is a set of capabilities that you track," Plummer said. "SOA needs to be tracked."
