Process disruptions, lack of reuse, escalations in help desk and field supports costs, non-compliance, information access failures and security breeches are just a few of the cataclysmic issues associated with deploying a service-oriented architecture without a corresponding governance organism, warned Jake Sorofman, vice president for product marketing at Systinet.
Governance – and the financial services industry’s over-arching need for it – was the key theme at the opening session of the Web Services/SOA on Wall Street conference in New York this week.
