This IDC study examines the market dynamics, growth, and opportunities for SOA-driven professional services on a worldwide basis, providing a forecast for 2007–2011.

"Complexity of issues begins to increase as SOA implementations evolve and new opportunities and challenges emerge for both end users and service vendors. Technology-specific questions about performance, reliability, availability, quality, security, and management continue to be important, but questions that are business focused like SOA governance, organizational change management, and business results take center stage. Service vendors must therefore prepare themselves to help their clients take SOA to the next level by addressing this growing complexity in their SOA journey," said Marianne Hedin, program manager for the Worldwide Services and SOA: The Services Opportunity research programs.