Perspectives
Delivering Your Enterprise: The ilities
Recently I was thinking about how I describe to others what our group does on a daily basis. Perhaps it’s my background with startups, but I’ve long felt that having a good elevator pitch for yourself or your company increases your ability to communicate... read moreHow Stale is Your Data Warehouse?
This is an important question that anyone responsible for a data warehouse should ask periodically and with some frequency as well. The following table will give you some concrete ideas on what to look for and how to use the metrics. The details of how you collect... read moreEconomic Principles for BI Programs
Economic considerations are at the heart of any business decision. They not only affect how we implement business intelligence (BI) solutions but also what we can do—and we give up other opportunities in the process of doing so. Here are three principles I have... read moreOperational Considerations for a Business Intelligence Initiative
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... read moreThe Seven Habits of Highly Effective Solutions Engineers
Over the past 20 years or so the concept of Design Patterns has emerged as a way to classify and define solutions to Information Technology challenges. In the software engineering community, patterns typically relate to technical topics and fill an important... read moreCommon Themes (and reusable components) in XTIVIA’s Enterprise Portal Implementations
These are exciting times in our Enterprise Portal practice – we are implementing challenging projects for some of the most recognizable names in Corporate America, growing our top-notch team, and solving interesting technical problems. All of this translates to being... read moreHave enough DBAs?
How do you know if you have the right number of database administrators (DBAs) on staff to properly take care of your environment? All your organization’s databases need to be kept operational and properly tuned, which probably requires around the clock... read more
Top 10 reasons why Liferay is the best Enterprise Portal product
At XTIVIA, we have extensive experience delivering enterprise portal, content management, and collaboration solutions since the late 1990s, and have seen this product space mature and evolve over the years. We started with traditional commercial software from the... read more