Gartner AADI - Service Oriented Development presented by Michael Blechar

Michael described an interest point concerning BPM. When a business unit starts documenting and defining their business process, not only do they start to get value through visibility and repeatability but they quickly start to see the value of SOA. This is due to the fact that once the processes are documented, people will want to fine tune and alter them to accommodate changing requirements or to make them more efficient. They will quickly see that without separating the individual units of work or activities they are not able to achieve this flexibility. Additionally, other units will see the processes and what to utilize them in whole or partially. Again, without the separation and granularity this is not possible.

The bottom line here is that BPM can sell SOA. Thus by supporting and promoting BPM, you will also be exposing the need for SOA.