We are very honored and excited to announce today that Fishbowl won the Forrester Groundswell Award in the Employee Mobile Application category. 
This was given out in conjunction with Forrester’s Content & Collaboration Forum being held today and tomorrow in Boston. Fishbowl’s entry, “Enabling Medtronics’ Global Sales Force with Mobile Content Management“, was selected for our work integrating Medtronic’s iPad-based Mobile Content Management System with Oracle WebCenter Content (formerly UCM).
Fishbowl would like to extend a sincere thank you to Jim Freeland of Medtronic for making this possible. Jim will be presenting Medtronic’s iPad solution with along with Chuck Day of Medtronic and Tim Gruidl, President of Fishbowl Solutions, on October 4th at Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco. To read more about the presentation or OpenWorld visit our OpenWorld page.
Medtronic’s Mobile Content Management System (mCMS) enables sales reps to download collateral from Oracle WebCenter Content into folders on their iPads by leveraging Fishbowl’s iOS Mobility Suite API. The iPad allows sales reps to quickly call up the latest videos, presentations, and PDFs stored in Oracle WebCenter Content. If reps don’t have an internet connection, they can still access any downloaded content in offline mode and use the synch button to check WebCenter for content updates when reconnected. Medtronic has nearly 2,500 mCMS users across 11 global regions, and these users access over 3,500 pieces of content. To read more about the solution, click here.
Fishbowl’s Jason Lamon attended the Forrester Content & Collaboration forum today to accept the award on behalf of Fishbowl Solutions and Medtronic. There were over 200 entries this year for the Forrester Groundswell Awards. Jason also participated in a panel discussion with the other award winners to provide some highlights of the project and its success.
This award recognizes Fishbowl’s ability to solve our customer’s information management challenges, and how as a team, we are able to deliver exciting and innovative solutions to customers. Thank you again to Medtronic and everyone at Fishbowl Solutions whose hard work made this solution and the iOS Mobility API a reality.
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).
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.
Oracle OpenWorld is right around the corner. With hundreds of sessions, meetings, and announcements all converging over 5 days, the show can overwhelm first-time and regular attendees alike. Fishbowl Solutions is committed to helping attendees get the most out of their OpenWorld experience, and as a first step we have provided a brief synopsis of Fishbowl’s activities at OpenWorld. WebCenter (Oracle UCM) sessions and activities are also included for your convenience.
Last week we launched two new WebCenter groups to coincide with Oracle’s rebranding and new user engagement platform. These groups are co-managed by Oracle and were created to foster conversation from a location that encourages open discussion around Oracle WebCenter Content and Portal. We invite customers, partners, Oracle employees, and industry leaders to join.
