1. A method of consuming a Component Business Model (CBM) Heat Map for Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) based solution development, the method comprising the steps of: identifying a CBM Heat Map; at a first converting step, automatically converting the tabular representation of the CBM Heat Map to a Unified Modeling Language (UML) representation; and subsequent to the first converting step, at a second converting step, converting the UML representation of the CBM Heat Map to a first iteration of input for SOA solution development.