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ARC Technical Guidance — July 2025 update: every change you need to know
Find out about the July 2025 ARC Changes coming in to force from April 2025. Read now and don’t be caught off guard!

Jim Walker
6 days ago5 min read


Are Your Database Sizes Growing Out of Control?
Databases have a habit of growing quietly in the background until, one day, they’re suddenly everyone’s problem. Storage might feel cheap, but the ripple effects of an oversized database are anything but. Longer nightly ETL runs, sluggish reporting, bloated backups, and clogged networks all trace back to unchecked growth. The result? Your business loses precious time and flexibility, especially when jobs that should finish in an hour creep into the early morning.
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Jim Walker
Aug 274 min read


How to Make Your Automated Communications More Powerful – Through Conditional Data Tags
Automated communications are only as good as the data they carry. In Civica Cx, built-in tags go a long way - but only so far. What if...

Jim Walker
May 225 min read


50 shades of...Cases and Tasks
I have the great pleasure of working with so many Civica Cx sites, and one question that seems to come up fairly frequently is: "Should I...

Jim Walker
May 95 min read


Navigating the 2025 ARC Changes: What you need to know
We're all no stranger to the ever-evolving landscape of regulatory requirements. From April 2025, changes to the Annual Return on the...

Jim Walker
Mar 213 min read


Please don't do your census or large customer surveys before you've read this!
The Importance of Forward Planning in Census Data Integration for Cx Housing System Introduction Census data collection within housing...

Jim Walker
Mar 134 min read


Maximizing Communication Impact with Information Field Responses
In this post I show you how you can pull information field responses in to Communications Remove manual entry?, improve communication...

Jim Walker
Nov 20, 20245 min read


Cx Web Services Step by Step - Get me a token!
In an earlier post, web-services-and-why-you-should-care we talked through what web services are and what you can do with them. We...

Jim Walker
Jun 1, 20236 min read


Stored Procedures for Bulk Communications
Lets cut right to the chase....this is pretty specialist stuff. You either want to know it, or you are one of the 99.999999% of people...

Jim Walker
May 31, 20234 min read


Web services, and why you should care
In the first article in the series, we learn about what web services are and some key concepts

Jim Walker
Feb 16, 20235 min read

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