- SOA adoption continues to accelerate with more organizations committing to it or planning their first projects. Governance is important for SOA initiatives to succeed.
- There are typically five stages of SOA adoption: opportunistic, systematic, enterprise-wide, measured, and industrialized. Following best practices around mediation, orchestration, modeling, monitoring, and governance can help organizations progress through the stages.
- Emerging trends include using event processing and a data grid to gain insights from large volumes of real-time data and make faster business decisions.