XTIVIA BLOG
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...
Why Should I Upgrade Liferay?
I can give you a lot of reasons to upgrade Liferay. I've seen some large companies spend LOTS of money building out something incredible on the Liferay platform, then take a "lights on" approach almost as soon as the product launches. With the "lights on" approach, they'll...
SQL Server 2008\2008 R2 Signals Move to Azure Cloud
SQL Server 2008\2008 R2's retirement is inching closer; now is the best time to weigh your options and decide on the next course of action. Do you migrate your SQL Server database to an Azure environment or do you keep an on-premise system and upgrade to SQL Server 2016/2017?...
Top 10 New Features in Liferay 7.2
This article covers the list of top 10 new business features and major enhancements in Liferay DXP 7.2 that we like the most.
Lightning Implementation: All-At-Once or Step-By-Step?
So your sponsor is backing up the Lightning transition, your team is onboard, and all you have to do now is decide on your strategy. There’s a number of different ways, but typically you’ll either phase Lightning in or do it all at once. Which of these paths you choose depends...
Kubernetes, OpenShift, and the Cloud Native Enterprise
An overview of the landscape of Kubernetes and related technologies as they move into the enterprise space.