New generation business models impose additional requirements on the IT support of business processes. In particular, quickly responding to new business requirements, continuously reducing IT cost, and dynamically integrating new business partners and customers are highly demanded. Recently, the trend in software development has shifted from developing software systems to developing service-oriented systems that are composed of ready to use services. The Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) architectural style has been widely adopted in industry thanks to its ability of providing seamless integration among software services Service-based applications are constructed by integrating heterogeneous services that are developed using various programming languages and running on different operating systems from a range of service providers. Services are loosely coupled entities, often designed under open-world assumptions, distributed across organizational boundaries, and executed remotely at their service providers’ environment. They require a smoother transition from development to operation than traditional applications. The objective of the paper is to look at the requirements of transaction management for Service oriented systems and the systematic requirements from the starting point for an analysis of current standards and technologies in the field of Web services