Jason Bloomberg, managing partner at analysis firm ZapThink, added, “The Open Group Service Integration Maturity Model was in large part contributed by IBM and includes some IBM-centric content, but The Open Group has done a good job evolving it to be a useful, vendor-neutral tool for helping organizations measure their architectural maturity.”

Many SOA maturity models come from software vendors and are little more than software sales tools, said Bloomberg. “ZapThink has found the ones from consulting organizations to be better aligned with enterprise needs.”

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