Wintergreen Research announced that it has released <A HREF="http://wintergreenresearch.com/reports/SOA_press_release.pdf">two new SOA reports</A> detailing how Web services significantly enhance worker productivity, implementing process from desktop icons. The services oriented architecture market study details how shifts to flexible computing models drive flexibility in IT and achieve resurgence of the mainframe.

IBM leads the SOA process engine and collaboration component license services and maintenance markets with 53% share, gaining on Microsoft, Oracle and SAP which all have single digit participation in the markets in 2006. The strength of the IBM middleware line is what made the SOA engine markets grow, giving increased productivity from automated process at every level of the channel and supply chain. This PDF press release contains more details.