“Financial services is the leading vertical industry in terms of early adoption of SOA,” says
ZapThink analyst Jason Bloomberg. According to Bloomberg, SOA offers long-term reductions
in integration costs, more reuse of IT assets, more visibility and control leading to less
compliance risk, and greater business ability. “Regulatory compliance is especially critical,” says
Bloomberg. “SOA provides an approach for dealing with issues like Sarbanes-Oxley in complex,
heterogeneous environments like those found at equities firms.”

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