On October 27, 2005, a service-oriented architecture (SOA) provider consortium, comprised of Sonic Software, Systinet, AmberPoint, and BearingPoint released a new SOA Maturity Model to the public. The SOA MM has five levels, each representing an increasing degree of business value. The consortium’s objective is to provide guidance to IT leaders and decision makers who need to associate (and communicate) the long-term investments of SOA with real business value. In this report, we provide an overview of the SOA MM, share our insights, and point out some relevant industry immaturities.