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Don't Let Your Enterprise Security Become Headlines
“Hackers Elect Futurama’s Bender to the Washington DC School Board” -- posted by PCWorld on March 2, 2012. “STOLEN NASA LAPTOP HAD SPACE STATION CONTROL CODE ” -- posted by Discovery News on March 1, 2012.
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Oracle Targets Documentum Customers, Time to Switch Enterprise CMS Platforms?
Enterprise content management is a 2.7 billion dollar industry with just a hand full of vendors competing for market share. Documentum was once the master of the content management space, the de facto product for most companies looking to automate their processes and get control over unstructured data.
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Oracle's Innovations: Improving Business #OOW11
While attending the Oracle Open World conference in San Francisco last week, I had an opportunity to discuss the many different Oracle announcements with customers.
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Oracle Focuses on WebCenter Sites (Formerly FatWire)
I was fortunate enough to attend a partner conference at Oracle’s headquarters in Redwood Shores, California, just prior to the announcement of the rebranding WebCenter product launch. Our meeting focused on Oracle’s vision purpose behind the rebranding and grouping of their portal, content management, web content management and enterprise
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The Era of Mobile Apps: Are Your Customers App Happy?
Technology evolves at a rate much quicker than most of us can keep pace with. Right now we are in the era of mobile applications. Here are three ways to capture the interest of your app happy customers.
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But I Want That: Social Networking in the Workplace
Years ago, when I first started working with customers on the concept of Intranets and corporate portals, people looked to the World Wide Web for a definition of what they wanted. In a discovery session with a client, one of the VPs said, “You know that new thing out there….
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Understanding Oracle's Universal Content Management Metadata Profiles
There is power in Metadata. Unfortunately, administrators tend to overlook or not fully understand the abilities of the tools that come with most enterprise content management applications. Oracle’s Universal Content Management application has a not-so-hidden gem that is all too often overlooked: Metadata Profiles. Content management applications have taken
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The Chicken or the Egg: Aka the Content Management System or the Portal?
Many software companies who provide both Content Management and Portal applications are merging the two technologies to provide a consolidated approach for presenting information to users. Historically, portal products have had some kind of content store embedded within them, but were never designed as enterprise level content management applications.
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Enterprise CMS: Tips to Find the Best Solution & Reduce Cost
Over the years, I’ve been involved in a large number of product analysis and vendor competitions with companies looking to purchase enterprise content management. As a result, I’ve noticed a few trends in the decision process that companies undergo and have come to some realizations.
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The Importance of Metadata in Content Management
One of the biggest hurdles in implementing an effective Content Management application is to establish a usable Metadata Model. Having a repository of data that users cannot search and access information from is no better than storing data on a simple file system.
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The Gap Between Creation and Management: Where’s the Bridge?
When people think about creating new digital assets, products like Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Flash, Avid Media Composer or Sound Forge Pro are the professional’s first choice -- depending on the task at hand.
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