Service-oriented architectures (SOAs) are the wave of the future, according to onlookers like XML-centric analyst group ZapThink, and the time has come for consultants to educate themselves accordingly. So says ZapThink in its latest report, “Service-Oriented Consulting: Facilitating the Service-Oriented Enterprise.”

The report’s big point is that there’s an increasing demand for architectural consulting, attended by a ramp-up in the number of technology solutions around the vision. Consequently, ZapThink predicts that total SOA architectural and process consulting revenues will “surpass those from system integration by 2006″ while system integration revenue earned by professional services organizations will fall more than 70 percent by 2010.

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