by XTIVIA | Oct 2, 2013 | Blog, Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, Perspectives
As professionals working in the business intelligence (BI) and data warehousing field, if we’re not posing questions of our data warehouse, we’re asking ourselves questions–especially about how to do our job better or maximize the value of our warehouse. Here...
by XTIVIA | Feb 13, 2013 | Blog, Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing
Lately, we at XTIVIA have seen a marked uptick for interest in open source ETL tools. Each customer situation is unique, but I would like to propose a few factors that you should review before making the decision: Incumbent Tool Set: Decisions around your choice...
by XTIVIA | Feb 6, 2013 | Blog, Data Warehousing, Databases
We all worry about the performance of our servers. It is what separates the DBA’s from the pretenders. You just never know just what setting will be the one that makes the big difference. The worst part is, the setting that works today may...
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...