IBM's VP of SOA and web services, Michael Liebow, said the company sees the need for a SOA maturity standard and is planning to work together with other industry vendor and groups "this year" in order to create one.
"There are various process standards in the industry today, what the industry lacks is around this notion of service integration maturity," he said. IBM published its Service Integration Maturity Model (SIMM) in October 2005, detailing seven stages of SOA maturity.
"We've mapped this to CMMI [the Capability Maturity Model Integration] but we've thought about it from a services perspective," he added. "We have this seven-level model and we're working with various industry groups to create an industry standard model."
