This IDC Insight profiles Accenture by describing the company's SOA capabilities with respect to its service offerings around SOA. IDC examines Accenture's overall SOA strategy and marketing messages, new developments in 2007, SOA services portfolio, major methods and tools used in SOA engagements, key competitive differentiators, strengths, and challenges. This document is a part of a series of profiles of major service vendors in the SOA market; the other vendors that will be featured are BEA Systems, Capgemini, CSC, Deloitte, EDS, HP, and IBM Global Services. Subsequently, all of these profiles will be published together in one major report, which will include a competitive analysis of these service providers.