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SiteStudio vs. SiteStudio for External Applications (SSXA) Smack Down!

September 19, 2011

smackdown image With the release of Oracle Content Management 11g, customers were introduced to many new features, functionality, and technology to help them solve their business problems. One of the new additions is Site Studio for External Applications (SSXA). SSXA provides the ability to run a website in an application server environment, while utilizing the benefits of a Universal Content Management backend (now called Oracle WebCenter Content). With this capability, Oracle helps companies take advantage of the main benefit of a Site Studio site, which is the ability to hand off content contribution to the users responsible for maintaining the content, while enabling them to leverage the latest web development technologies including JavaServer Pages (JSP) and JavaServer Pages Standard Tag Library (JSTL).

Both Site Studio and Site Studio for External Applications offer the ability to build and maintain enterprise-scale web sites. Both technologies separate content from presentation, and allow content to be updated by non-IT users. Additionally, both components support Oracle Universal Content Management 11g. Therefore, either component is more than adequate for website creation today. However, one thing to consider is the technology direction your organization is heading. If you see your IT infrastructure quickly evolving, you may want to consider SSXA as it more closely aligns with Oracle’s Fusion Middleware strategy to provide interoperability and integrations across all Oracle software applications. If your organization is content with your current infrastructure and technologies today, and may not see the immediate need to move to a more IT-centric web content management system (WCM), Site Studio will suffice. Ultimately however, either system provides the necessary WCM features and functionality to create and deliver highly visual and interactive websites. Fishbowl has experience implementing and developing sites using both SSXA and Site Studio, and we are ready to help you decide which one may be best for your organization’s website creation process.

For more information and technical details read the complete comparision whitepaper by Mariah Bailey, Senior Software Consultant at Fishbowl Solutions. Read the Whitepaper

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iPad general thoughts..

June 28, 2011

Last night on the couch, whilst watching TV I came across the above add or a very similar one for the iPad.
Now in the UK, iPads & tablets for me are still really classed as a cool gadget & fun toy to play with and until the end of last year I hadn’t seen them being used. Of course you`ll see a CEO carrying one, you or a work colleague may have one but if you’re in the UK the likely hood that you’ll be given one for work or have a business case to justify one is probably very rare..
(If not please tell me I’d love to know how you use yours).

In the US however it seems to be a completely different story.
All the meetings I attend I see at least 5 iPads come out.. (Yes, there is poor me with the classic notepad). And these people are actually using them to type, hand-write, or dictate notes, share and brainstorm ideas, share agendas, access documents. It’s not only in meetings but I’ve also seen a number of corporations like Medtronic invest in iPads; enabling their employees to gain fast access to documents & presentations securely whilst on the move.

Over the last couple of months I have seen a switch in attitude in the UK with the iPad well not only iPad but mobility on a whole and a need for cross device compliant application – it will be interesting to see how the market changes and to see how prevalent ipads/tablets will be within business. Fishbowl Solutions are already ahead of the competition investing time into their mobility solutions for E2.0 ECM, WebCenter and although I can see the majority of the market is in the US it is coming to EMEA and the rest of the world.

If you’re interested in Mobility solutions and what Fishbowl has to offer get in touch.

Posted in Content Management, Enterprise 2.0, Integrations, Mobile, UCM, UX, WCM, Web 2.0, WebCenter | 1 Comment »

HTML5 UCM – WebCenter DropBox styled integration podcast

May 19, 2011

John Brunswick (@johnbrunswick) is just one step ahead..
I’ve just joined twitter within the last week (@JRSim_UIX) and came across this awesome podcast on HTML5 drag and drop from the desktop into UCM from WebCenter:

E2.0 Workbench Podcast 3 – HTML5, UCM and WebCenter “QuickBox”

He beat the FB labs team to our blog post.. very jealous – you can see one of our quick POC we did a couple months back for dragging and dropping from the desktop and auto tagging documents to UCM with HTML5; using the scroll wheel to define the size of the tagging area.

We’ll still be putting a post when we finalise our edition – but it was really good to see another post on this – we love it here when the Oracle Team come up with these innovative integrations.

Posted in Content Management, Enterprise 2.0, Labs, UCM, WCM, Web 2.0, WebCenter | 1 Comment »

2011 ECM E2.0 & Information Management Trends

February 2, 2011

Over the last 3 months you have no doubt witnessed a host of crystal-ball gazing blogs, papers and general punditry. The prediction papers and chest thumping was a virtual flood of pontification.

Instead of joining the fray, we sat back and read. A LOT! We collected articles, blogs, reports, and snippets from all over the web. We read the very well known, and the not so well known.

Then we gathered the text together and analyzed it. We researched 2010 search trends. We looked at 2010 hiring trends. We looked at stories and data. The result is in a free report we have made available (link on the image – registration required and greatly appreciated).

We found that amidst all the theory and conjecture 6 key trend themes emerged that were common to all of the material. These were

The socializing of business processes
The Cloud as infrastructure
Mobility for information
Renewed focus on User Experience
Analytics and Search for navigating the information flood
Operational Efficiency

We delve deep into each of these themes to explore them and tease out what they’re about. We tied them to hiring trends – evidence of real $$$ investment by organizations. We mashed them up against Google keyword search trends – evidence of what users are curious about and interested in.

All in all it is an exciting report that represents not just the voice of Fishbowl, but rather the combined voice of the industry ecosystem.

Please download this free report and share it with your colleagues, customers and constituents. And then let us know what you thought of it.

Posted in Content Management, Context, Enterprise 2.0, Integrations, Mobile, Portal, Semantic Web, WCM, Web 2.0 | 2 Comments »

5 Pillars for WCM Optimization – Pillar 2 Re-Use Rather than Re-store or Re-Create

December 14, 2010

5 Pillars

The primary advantage that organizations gain through incorporating WCM in their enterprise information management (EIM) strategy is the ability to repurpose existing information. Research has consistently demonstrated a material cost incurred when employees search for information and spend time re-creating information that already exists. When WCM is included in a larger EIM strategy, content owners are able to leverage the web distribution channel without having to re-create content. This has the follow-on effect of minimizing or even eliminating synchronization efforts to keep multiple copies of the same item up to date. It also means that when a change to the content is affected, it ramifies throughout all the distribution channels including WCM channels without additional work.

Think about your corporate web site and the mobile version of your web site. Most of the content is probably the same with the mobile site maybe containing a subset of the main site content. If you are copying and pasting content or even “automatically publishing” a copy of main site content to a mobile website directory or server, you are forced to update the same information twice: Once for the main site and again for the mobile site. Even when replication is automated, if problems occur synchronization and tracing efforts are required. A better solution is to leverage WCM systems that draw content from the same logical (even if physically distributed) repository and render it for the appropriate delivery channel.

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