By having a standard maturity model, it becomes possible for the organizations or industry to benchmark their SIMM levels, to have a roadmap for transformation to assist their planning and for vendors to offer services and software against these benchmarks.
SIMM may also serve as a framework for the transformation process that can be customized to suit the specific needs of organizations and assessments.
The Service Integration Maturity Model (SIMM) helps an organization create a roadmap for the incremental transformation of that organisation towards more mature levels of service integration in order to achieve increasing business benefits associated with higher levels of maturity.
SIMM is used to determine which organisational characteristics are desirable in order to attain a new level of maturity.
The Open Group has adopted SIMM as the foundation for the Open Group Service Integration Maturity Model (OSIMM), the industry's first collaborative maturity model for SOA adoption.