API Design & Implementation Best Practices
Digital transformation is happening everywhere with the involvement of mobile and cloud technologies. Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), once seen as developers’ tools, are now being exposed to the market. However, digital transformation is not an easy...
Businesses Need Businesses: Two Ideas to Reboot Post-COVID-19
If the disruption caused by COVID-19 has taught us anything, it’s that businesses need businesses. We are all interconnected and need each other to deliver value to customers and remain viable for our own longevity. As the CEO of an IT integration firm,...
Solving Concurrency in Epicor-Salesforce Bi-directional Integrations
Concurrency issues in a bi-directional Epicor-Salesforce integration can hinder your teams’ productivity, and mediating them isn’t always an easy barrier to hurdle. The main reason is that, although Epicor is an acceptable ERP system for many businesses,...
Frictionless Enterprise Is the Key to the New Normal in Business
COVID-19 is changing the way we do business. While we are in a digital economy, people and process take precedence over technology — until the people and processes are affected. When that happens, morale, productivity, and results are vulnerable… that’s...
Sockets, Cores, and Threads, oh my!
What do you mean, exactly, by “CPU”? Once upon a time, computers sat on our desks; we knew exactly how many processors they had; and back then our biggest uncertainty was whether they could handle Y2K. Fast forward to today: our computers have 4, 8 or 16...
ETL Audit-Balance-Control Recommendations
SUMMARY: XTIVIA recommends that organizations implement an Audit-Balance-Control (ABC) framework to enhance the reliability and transparency of ETL/ELT data pipelines by leveraging comprehensive metadata to automate reconciliation and error recovery. Audit procedures...
Common Causes of Software License Noncompliance
One of the biggest threats to a business is the repercussions of noncompliance. Whether you’re out of compliance with your security system and privacy protocol, your financial documentation, or your software licensing, noncompliance is a difficult barrier to...
API and Platform Integration Tools
The right integration tool is key to unlocking unified API management and successful digital transformation. Today’s technology-focused environment is flooded with API and platform integrator tools, making the right choice hard to find. Over the past 20 years,...XTIVIA Announces Achievement of SSAE 18 Certification
XTIVIA has earned SSAE 18 Certification from The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA). SSAE is used to regulate how companies conduct business and, more specifically, defines how companies report on compliance controls. This certification assures high-performance, insight into operations and gives a company extra credibility for the way they conduct business.
Salesforce and Epicor: Why You Should Go for a Custom Integration
As the link between company resources and customer information becomes more vital, the need for CRM and ERP integrations is quickly growing. Having succinct connections between inventory and sales, purchasing and customer reporting, and other resource-sales...