DAN ROSANOVA

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.

A Tale of Two Architectures

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.

The SOA Knowledge Gap

The traditional corporate hierarchy--the organizational structure that serves the company's business needs--can get in the way of software developers who need to create a service-oriented architecture which serves the business as a whole. Here's how to address some of the thorny issues it raises, especially in the process of gathering business requirements.

Confusing Nouns and Verbs: A Common Pitfall in SOA and Integration Initiatives

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.