The Seven Dwarfs of Data On-boarding in Splunk

In my time working with and using Splunk, I have learned a few tricks and tips to make the Splunk experience even better. This post assumes you are familiar with a few Splunk keywords. If you are having trouble following along, take a look at this link and look up the terms: http://docs.splunk.com/Splexicon. If you have never seen Splunk before, I suggest taking a look at the Splunk Tutorial to familiarize yourself with the product: ...


Run Forrest Run!

"Run Forrest Run" – do you remember that scene from the movie Forrest Gump? Well, that seems to be the trend nowadays with government agencies running away from costly entreprise solutions towards more open source software because it is, well, free.  Luckily, Forrest Gump unshackles himself from his polio braces and breaks free; and so so did many government agencies. In my prior blog on open source Web Content Management (WCM) systems, I mentioned Drupal as a strong...


A Little Bird told me...

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You can imagine the scene in the cartoon above playing out in the office of a marketing professional in almost any corporate environment these days. In this case, the little bird is the data mining wizard that was brought in, and the big mountain ram is the marketing executive finding out about all the beautiful nuggets of information that had been discovered, all while he's dreaming up the potentially useful (clever and/or evil muuhahahaha) things he can do with those nuggets. As I...


Oracle WebCenter Sites Asset Modeling: An Introduction

Welcome everyone, to an introductory blog about Oracle WebCenter Sites (WCS) Asset Modeling.  Asset Modeling is the first major step in planning and designing the structure of a website using WCS.

When you sit down to analyze the requirements of a website, you should first compartmentalize all the different aspects and sections that will be necessary to fulfill the requirements.  This approach will eventually lead to the most efficient design and modeling of assets for the website.

For example, how many different kinds of webpages do we need? Can any subsections of webpages...


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