XTIVIA BLOG
CRM Deployment: On-Premise or In the Cloud?
One of the biggest questions that needs to be answered when implementing any software — especially CRM (customer relationship management) — is, "where is this software going to be hosted?" "Is this going to be hosted on my own in-house servers or in the cloud somewhere?" There...
Four Factors To Help You Future-Proof Your IT
Future-proofing is a buzzword that's getting a lot of attention these days. However, the idea behind it is something IT professionals have worked with for a long time. Essentially, future-proofing means taking steps so you're able to flex and expand as needed for as-yet-unknown...
What Insurers Need to Know About Serving Policyholders in Today’s Digital Economy
As a consumer, insurance is what you pay for but never want to use; as an insurer, you want to protect the interests of your policyholders and facilitate your agents in doing so. In all cases, technology is the bridge to insurer success in serving policyholders better in...
Follow One Wild Pursuit at a Time to Increase Success
There is something to be said for disruptors, innovation, brainstorming, idea generation and creativity in the workplace. After all, these are the practices that envision, shape and birth the growing edge in any industry. At the same time, trying to do everything at the same...
The Ins and Outs of Single Sign-On – Part 2
In our previous blog on Single Sign-on (SSO), we defined SSO and explained some of the many benefits it brings to the corporate table. To give a little recap: it saves time and money. That being said, we didn't explain the nitty-gritty inner workings of SSO, the different types...
Common Insurance Use Cases Leveraging Liferay DXP
As I wrote in my Forbes article, Seven Disruptions That Are Shaping Customer Experience Today, today's rapid pace of disruptive change is shaping customer expectations and, accordingly, customer experience (CX) in ways that threaten to leave less agile brands behind. This is...
ETL Test Process and Best Practices
Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) is the process of gathering data (Extract) from an unlimited number of sources, converting it (Transform) into a format that can be analyzed, and centralizing it into a single repository (Load). ETL is an alternative, but related approach designed...
The Basics of SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines (VMs)
In the face of SQL Server 2008's end of life, there's been a lot of buzz around utilizing SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machine (VM). As one of the many ways of continuing support for your SQL Server Database, we'd like to elaborate on what exactly Azure VM is, what it offers,...
Choosing Between Azure Container Service, Azure Service Fabric, and Azure Functions
Azure Container Service (ACS) provides a way to simplify the creation, configuration, and management of a cluster of virtual machines that are preconfigured to run containerized applications. Using an optimized configuration of popular open-source scheduling and orchestration...
Making the Case for Digital Transformation with MuleSoft API Connectivity
Enterprise today is undergoing a significant upgrade through digital transformation to connect data and unify communications. Some of which is facilitated by MuleSoft API connectivity. But let's begin at the beginning. Digital transformation is not just about buying the latest...