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Hello and welcome to the latest issue of the Avanade Advisor, our forum for sharing tips, best practices, and other advice from our technologists and consultants with our colleagues and customers worldwide.

In this issue, you will learn tips from Avanade technologists for keeping your IT project on schedule and budget by recognizing dependencies that can drastically impact project delivery.

In addition, you can learn about the potential benefits of aspect oriented programming (AOP), including increased compliance with enterprise architectures, and reduction of errors in coding.

Last, you will also hear from Fidelity Information Services on how adopting a service oriented architecture (SOA) enabled the company to rebuild its loan origination system as a robust and scalable system that can now be easily integrated with their customers’ systems.

Thank you for your time and interest. As always, we look forward to receiving your comments or story ideas – simply send an e-mail to editor@avanade.com.


Adam Warby
Senior VP, Global Market Development



Banking on .NET
By David Spies, Fidelity

Fidelity Information Services' David Spies is counting on .NET to deliver more flexible software to the nation's top lenders.
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Keeping Your Project Safe from External Dependencies
By Bob Fahey with contributions by Chris Lewis

External dependencies can spell doom for an IT project. So, to save your project, your sanity, and possibly your job, learn how to get control over something that, by definition, is out of your control.
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Ask the Expert about Aspect-oriented Programming
By Jeff Kempiners

Compared to object-oriented programming or service-oriented architecture, aspect-oriented programming (AOP) is not a widely adopted concept – yet. Avanade already is helping customers take advantage of AOP for application architecture. We asked Jeff Kempiners, .NET Solutions Practice Director for Avanade Canada, for a high-level view of what AOP does, and how it can help the IT department achieve both technical and business advantage.
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