by XTIVIA | Feb 11, 2013 | Blog, Business Intelligence, Portals
Customer: “When will you deliver the scope in our statement of work?” Consultant: “We are Agile, so we can’t tell you that!” Customer: “At least give me a high-level timeline. When can I expect to see my deliverables?”...
by XTIVIA | Feb 10, 2013 | Blog, Business Intelligence, Databases, Portals
A very large gift given to us user interface developers in Liferay 6.1 is the inclusion of SASS support. One of the many ways SASS comes in handy is handling prefixed CSS rules – instead of having to specify each rule every time you, say, want to declare a gradient,...
by XTIVIA | Aug 29, 2012 | Blog, Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, Portals
Part 2: Personalization and Security A previous blog post in this series introduced the Liferay dashboard framework that XTIVIA has developed as serviceware that is available for purchase by our Liferay implementation customers. This post will continue the...
by XTIVIA | Aug 21, 2012 | Blog, Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, Portals
A requirement that is often found in enterprise IT environments is the need for “dashboards” that provide integrated, highly visual (e.g., chart-driven) representations of key data to executives, analysts and key decision makers. In addition to the data...
by XTIVIA | Jul 30, 2012 | Blog, Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing
We get quite a few questions around Dashboards and Scorecards. I think it is good to enumerate the differences between the two so that when you are ready to implement you don’t lose sight of the differences. So, without further ado, here are the differences that...
by XTIVIA | Jun 28, 2012 | Blog, Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing
Several weeks ago USAToday actually published an article about business intelligence on the front page. The story started with a discussion of a solar panel manufacturer so you had to read a little more to find out that the story really was about BI. I was...
by XTIVIA | May 13, 2011 | Blog, Business Intelligence
Which BI tool is right for us? Every organization faces this decision when they are looking to build a BI solution. We have had a lot of customers ask this to us. Without going into too much detail, I will outline the process I like to use. Price is almost always a...
