Dan Rosanova is principal consultant at Nova Enterprise Systems, a consultancy that specializes in Enterprise Applications and Microsoft BizTalk Server solutions. He has ten years experience delivering enterprise solutions in financial, insurance, telecommunications, and medical industries on Windows, Solaris and Linux platforms.
Despite the tension between Software Architecture and Service Oriented Architecture initiatives in recent years, and their competition for funding and resources, the two efforts actually go hand in hand. Focusing on only one effort causes suboptimal returns on the other, with a serious and negative impact on your SOA investments. Dan Rosanova details how this can happen and how to avoid it.
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SOA projects can go drastically off course when they get tangled up in inter-system dependencies and new capabilities in myriad legacy systems. This can be the death knell of a service-oriented architecture initiative, as it falls behind schedule and runs over budget.
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Service Level Management Best Practices Life Cycle Overview - Improve Service Levels
Best practices for Service Level Management (SLM) is a process for consistently meeting customer requirements and delivering on IT's promises. See the steps required to ensure high-quality SLM.
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In order to keep fraudsters out, romance sites must deploy effective solutions that look at information independent of what is supplied by users. A device fingerprinting solution such as iovation ReputationManager™ provides unique insight into the computers being used to create multiple accounts and exposes hidden device-account relationships that identity-based fraud solutions often miss.
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