Let’s be honest – content governance is far from an exciting topic. BUT the potential of a very small intranet team creating and maintaining a platform that provides an organization with relevant, high value information, helping workers to get their jobs done with greater accuracy and in less time is exciting. It is [...]
Since an essential element of modern Portals and Business Applications is that they are designed to be evolved by Business Users after they have been built, a critical part of the software infrastructure for Business Applications is that it must make it easy for users to get the information they need and to work with [...]
I’ve seen a set of posts recently where users are trying to come up with an easy way to describe WebCenter Suite (and more specifically WebCenter Framework & Spaces), how it can be used, and different customer use cases. So I’ll provide a series of posts starting at the top level and then drilling [...]
Tremendous value and cost savings can be realized by rationalizing multiple, existing content repositories into a single platform. A mature, enterprise-caliber content management platform has the ability to maintain and govern all unstructured information across various systems from a secure, central location – reducing management costs and increasing the value of your existing content. [...]
Perhaps the most frequent of frequently-asked-questions about IRM was put to me recently by one of my Irish colleagues:
If you have to get IRM decryption keys and access rights from an IRM server, how does that impact offline access to documents and offline creation of new documents? How do I ensure that business users [...]
Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 is already certified with the 10gR2 10.2.0.4 database for several platforms. Our Applications Platforms Group continues to certify additional platforms on a regular basis. They have just completed their certification of Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 versions 12.0.4 and 12.1.1 with Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and 2008 for x64 (64-bit) [...]
Back from the dual launch events in both DC and London, we’re starting to hear some extremely interesting reviews around WebCenter. You should check out Forrester’s site for a new overview of WebCenter 11g. It’s quite good and focuses in on some key areas of the entire product stack.
In addition, Craig Roth also [...]
As part of today’s Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g launch, Oracle announces the general availability of Oracle WebCenter Suite 11g – the industry’s most comprehensive enterprise portal platform designed for business users and IT and unified with business applications, Enterprise 2.0 services and social communities. Oracle WebCenter Suite 11g delivers significant new features including:
• WebCenter Spaces – [...]
While this could be considered heresy to suggest that not everyone in the connected world will prefer to create a mashup, it is clear that mashups are helpful to many. There is a key need to be able to pull information together and shape it around a specific task. When I approve budget expenses, I’d [...]
Editor’s note: Dr. Sherry Mead is an expert in the user experience of search. This blog is the first of a two-part series on the latest user interface design for search functionality.
Sherry Mead, User Experience Architect
What Are Facets?
From Wikipedia: “A faceted classification system allows the assignment of multiple classifications to an object, enabling [...]