by XTIVIA | Mar 20, 2013 | News
03-20-13 XTIVIA, Inc. is a proud Silver Sponsor of the Gartner Portals, Content & Collaboration Summit 2013 XTIVIA, Inc., a Liferay Platinum Partner and the 2012 Liferay North America Partner of the Year, is a proud Silver Sponsor of the Gartner Portals, Content...
by Asier Del Pozo | Mar 19, 2013 | Blog, Enterprise Java, Portals
Traditionally, building portals and/or web sites with “search that just works” has been hard but over the last few years, life has become easier. Various search tools such as Lucene and Solr have emerged, and platforms such as Liferay have integrated with...
by XTIVIA | Mar 6, 2013 | News
03-06-13 XTIVIA, Inc. announced today that XTIVIA will be a Bronze sponsor at this year’s International Informix Users Group (IIUG) 2013 Informix Conference, the largest IBM Informix gathering in the world. The IIUG Conference is a technical conference for IBM...
by XTIVIA | Mar 1, 2013 | Blog, Business Intelligence
I am not a regular ETL developer but I do “dabble” in developing code from time to time. One requirement that I come across is looping (while, for, infinite) in a job and performing a task based on condition and then going to sleep for a period of time....
by XTIVIA | Feb 26, 2013 | Blog, Data Management, Databases
Often I am asked about the importance of a security audit, with the majority of these questions being asked by representatives of smaller organizations. The questions are centered around if there is a need to perform a security audit when the organization has taken...
by XTIVIA | Feb 24, 2013 | Blog, Portals
Microsoft Excel is the de facto standard spreadsheet tool used by businesses around the world and houses some of the most critical business information. However businesses often struggle to make this information available to employees and other stakeholders that would...
by XTIVIA | Feb 22, 2013 | Blog, Databases
One of the important performance metrics we monitor for our Virtual-DBA and consulting customers is Page Life Expectancy (PLE). We look for low values as well as values that are trending lower over time. A drop in PLE is a prime indicator of memory pressure. PLE is...
by XTIVIA | Feb 20, 2013 | Blog, Data Management, Databases
We had a Virtual-DBA customer request that we install and configure a new Grid Control agent on a new server with existing databases. While there are several ways to do this, we wanted the customer to be able to perform this task by themselves in the future. The...
by XTIVIA | Feb 20, 2013 | Blog, Databases
At XTIVIA, we monitor and support multiple clients that use Lawson applications with a DB2 LUW (Linux, Unix and Windows) database back end. I wanted to share some of my experience and lessons learned over the years. Schema Layout: Out of the box, Lawson uses...
by XTIVIA | Feb 18, 2013 | Blog, Business Intelligence
It is refreshing to see Microsoft finally acknowledging the business as well as technical framework under which Business Intelligence projects are typically run. By taking this approach, Microsoft is definitely building upon the core competence it has gained over the...
by XTIVIA | Feb 13, 2013 | Blog, Business Intelligence
Absolutely! The reports from Gartner are great (at least from my perspective) and there is a lot of useful information in them. I found the latest one particularly engaging. As I read through the report, I started thinking about what it means to us (as practitioners...
by XTIVIA | Feb 13, 2013 | Blog, Business Intelligence
Two bits of Information I picked up from our principal Informatica Architect. When I used these, it did really work wonders. Aggregators and joiners should have sorted input. The Sorter Transformation sorts rows more efficiently that the Aggregator...
