Barry Fisher, Founder and CEO at Pivale Drupal agency - a man with dark hair, a neat beard, moustache and glasses.

Barry Fisher

Founder & CEO

Barry is our founder and CEO, responsible for delivering on our mission statement and ensuring successful digital transformation for our clients. Barry oversees the majority of our consulting and digital transformation projects.

Articles by Barry

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From Chaos to Calm: Our Path to Seamless Digital Transformation

4 March, 2025
#Advice
#Drupal
#Security & compliance
#SEO
#User experience

Managing a strong online presence is essential for competing in today’s global business world. Juggling multiple websites, can spiral into a logistical nightmar

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Why website support retainers are essential

31 January, 2025
#Advice
#Insights
#User experience

Retainers - they're a common occurrence in industries and yet, they're sometimes misunderstood. We break down why you need one.

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The hidden risks behind your legacy systems

17 January, 2025
#Advice
#Insights
#Security & compliance

Whether you’ve just stepped into a new role, joined a new company, or been caught up in a merger or acquisition, you might find yourself stuck dealing with lega

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Choose Pivale’s Drupal Multisite for your digital transformation in an uncertain world

18 December, 2024
#Advice
#Drupal
#Insights
#Security & compliance

Operating in today’s business world is increasingly challenging. With economic uncertainty, rapidly evolving technology, and relentless competitive pressures.

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Tackling EMEA‑specific challenges for successful digital transformation

1 November, 2024
#Advice
#Insights
#User experience

Whether you're a CTO or CMO in the EMEA region, you're probably no stranger to the challenges of working across such a vast area.

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The digital bouncer: Prevent digital troublemakers coming in

10 October, 2024
#Advice
#Insights
#Security & compliance

It's your website behaving strangely? Being unstable, slow load times, or regularly going down? As a digital agency, we’re seeing a rise in the volume of bots.

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Pivale’s formula for digital transformation with Drupal Multisite

2 September, 2024
#Advice
#Drupal
#Security & compliance
#User experience

So, your company is thinking, "How do we get to where we want to be?". You've been handed the task of getting a new, secure website up with a CMS.

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The Dream Stack: Pivale’s Perfect Web Package

4 August, 2024
#Advice
#Backend
#Drupal
#Frontend
#Security & compliance
#WordPress

For any serious business of a certain size, prioritising security is a must. While WordPress has its merits, security isn’t one of them.

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Drupal 7 End of Life: Support Ending Jan 5, 2025

4 June, 2024
#Drupal
#Security & compliance

Act now before the Drupal 7 end of life deadline to mitigate the risk of vulnerabilities, data breaches, financial penalties and reputational damage.

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Pivale’s Vision and Masterplan Approach

15 April, 2024
#Advice
#Insights

From experience, we’ve seen the complexities that large organisations face when purchasing and integrating software. It's not just having the right tools.

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Calculate your 5× ROI & don't rely on luck

30 January, 2024
#Advice
#Insights

If you’re not aiming big, is it even worth the effort? Many of our recent clients already know about our 5× ROI goal. But now it’s time to be bold.

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How your agency is going to win bigger clients

22 January, 2024
#Advice
#Insights

Do you run a marketing, branding, or creative agency? This one's for you. There comes a certain point in every agency’s life where it's time for growth.

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Green lights and red flags for digital agency collaborative working

2 January, 2024
#Advice
#Drupal
#Insights
#User experience
#WordPress

When it comes to marketing, branding, digital and creative services, the fact is most agencies can’t do it all. This probably isn’t news to you. Here’s why…

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Development programmes: stop standing still after you launch your website!

30 October, 2023
#Advice
#Insights

It’s a moment of opportunity. A new ecosystem for your customers. The potential for change is palpable within leadership teams and it’s all about to start now.

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Why you need to STOP hunting for the unicorn

9 October, 2023
#Advice
#Insights

Let’s face it recruitment is hard. And it’s not getting any easier. Inundated with CVs, but nothing that fits the bill. Know the feeling? You’re not alone.

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Businesses with many websites need Multisite!

10 September, 2023
#Advice
#Backend frameworks
#Drupal
#Insights
#Security & compliance
#SEO
#User experience
#WordPress

Think of your digital presence as a set of offices. You’re the owner of the offices, and it’s your job to make sure they’re all in tip-top condition.

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Why Pivale test with CircleCI and you should too

9 July, 2023
#Advice
#Insights

We use a solution that removes risk and allows for constant renovation and innovation of websites and applications. CircleCI CI = Continuous Integration.

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Engineering Excellence Explained: Customer Analysis

1 June, 2023
#Advice
#Insights

Engineering excellence is the processes and systems applied for every client project that the Pivale team undertake.

Barry Fisher, Founder and CEO at Pivale digital transformation agency - a man with dark hair, a neat beard, moustache and glasses.

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