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DigiBiz 2009

As a conclusion of the first international DigiBiz conference, held in June 2009 in London, SpringerLink published a book containing the paper presented by Pierfranco Ferronato (Chief Architect and founder of Soluta.Net) and Elia Conchione (Technical Coordinator). For more information, please visit this page.

"This paper presents the results of a EU FP6 funded project named “Open Negotiation Environment” (ONE), including it’s features, the strategies, the use of Model Driven Architecture (MDA), the tools, the process used in the development and the key decisions that drove the entire architecture’s specifications." - Abstract of the paper presented by Pierfranco Ferronato

"The strategy is to have a system that does not move data across the architecture when it is not required. The goal is also to support different architectures, namely: Information, Model and Application. The first is to be stored and maintained where the information is actually created (by the service providers), the Model in a separate repository; models are horizontal respect to the information and are common across services. Application architecture is managed by the Registry and it ’s used as a directory of services. This separation of concerns as implemented in this project helps to avoid data replication and it aims at providing a better alignment between IT and the business." - Abstract of the paper presented by Elia Conchione

Il Sole 24 Ore

Support to Software Architecture

"Il Sole 24 Ore" is an Italian national daily business newspaper owned by Confindustria, the Italian employers' federation. It reports on business, politics, developments in commercial and labour law, corporate news and features.

This newspaper has published an article about Soluta.Net in the "Special Events" section on Monday, December 15th, 2008. Davide Bordin and Pierfranco Ferronato have been interviewed in the context of the Innovative SMEs as a support to organizations.

Real-life MDA

Our experience described in M. Guttman's and J. Parodi's book

"The need for this book - No one has published a similar compendium of MDA case studies, making a transition to new technology is not simply a technical affair, although many of us tend to overlook this point, and the authors are superb writers. These are people who have seen a lot in the industry and have a gift for articulating important trends." - David Frankel, consultant and author.

The goal of "Real-life MDA", by Michael Guttman and John Parodi, is to define the "essence of MDA" through a collection of case studies and success stories involving the model-driven approach. The words of David S. Frankel, lead standards architect at SAP Labs, who also wrote the foreword of this book, are used for presenting it in Amazon.com.

Chapter 3 is entitled "Soluta.Net / Coopservice Case Study: Facilities Management Industry"; it explains how Soluta.Net applied the MDA approach in helping the Coopservice company improving its business position in the market. The "Results and Benefits" section, in particular, shows how the application of model-driven techniques in this project confirmed the many advantages brought by this approach, as the reuse of architectural building blocks, the absence of error-prone refactoring of source code, the separation between functional and technical concerns and the formalization and maintainance of the enterprise knowledge assets. Our industrial projects page contains a brief description of the project described in "Real-life MDA".

Digital Business Ecosystems

The DBE project in a book

This book illustrates the methodological roots of the DBE European project, in which Soluta.Net collaborated, and presents some real-world applications of those methodologies. Pierfranco Ferronato, chief architect in Soluta.Net, contributed to this book by writing a chapter titled "Ecosystem Oriented Architecture (EOA) vs SOA". "Digital Business Ecosystems", edited by F.Nachira, P.Dini, A.Nicolai, M. Le Louarn and L.Rivera Leon, is published by the European Commission, in association and with the support of the FP6 projects DBE and OPAALS. For further information please visit this web page.

INCUBATE Newsletter

Soluta.Net described in the INCUBATE Newsletter

Our skills and experience were described in the fourth edition of the INCUBATE newsletter (February 2008).

"The experiences gained in 15 years of projects with international customers, in most different sectors like telecom, eGovernement, health care, banking and pharmaceutical, allows them to be the key partner for many companies."

"Since its establishment in 2003 Soluta.Net has participated to proposals in FP6 and FP7. By today Soluta.Net has obtained a great score: four financed projects (plus a Thematic Network) among six proposals."

Click here to read the contents of the newsletter.

Eventi Speciali Nordest

An article about us

An article on Soluta.Net, containing an interview to Davide Bordin (Chief Executive Officer) and Pierfranco Ferronato (Chief Architect), was published on the "Eventi Speciali Nordest" newspaper in December 2008.

Click here to read the article.