Product Announcement: Collab Explorer 1.0 Released

Posted by Vasanth Manikumar on December 23, 2010 Collaboration, F1 Product

Hi all,

Please pardon the interruption in our blog posts for the past month. It's not that we didn't have anything to write about, but wanted to focus on delivering some important Function1 products. As usual, at Function1, we are always looking for ways to improve the user experience for our customers. And today, we are staying on course with that mantra with the release of our Collab Explorer product for customers using Oracle WebCenter Collaboration. This product is essentially a portlet which allows users to...

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Some cool project

Posted by Hani Atalla on October 03, 2010 Function1, Enterprise 2.0, Development Confluence Word Press Integration, General, Portal

It is a thrill being a team member on a project that includes creative team members who aren’t shy of exploring unique avenues to achieve the project’s objectives.  Don’t get me wrong, we aren’t taking elusive risks with potential greater expense just to plug in our resumes that we ventured into bleeding edge technologies.  The team’s objective is to push the Oracle WebCenter Interaction technology to its fullest potential to meet the project’s requirements.  So what are we trying to do?  Well, since this blog site is, for the most part, about Oracle WebCenter Interaction (you didn’t...

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A Webcenter Interaction 10gR3 install and an Oracle 11g Database walk into a bar

Posted by Allan Mai on April 23, 2010 Enterprise 2.0 Portal, wci

Error accessing database! Check your config files and verify that your database is correctly scripted.

It's 2 AM, and these are not exactly the calm and soothing words you want to be seeing from PTSpy after a clean, fresh  install of your WCI portal. It is frustrating, it is alarming, and above all else, did I mention it is 2 AM?  The prospect of re-scripting a database by hand is just ever so slightly upsetting.  So we look at little deeper at the Spy log:

Exception in thread "Main Thread" com.plumtree.openkernel.exceptions.OKSQLException: Error in function PTSession.Connect...

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Terms of Endearment - Part 1: Understanding High Availability

Posted by Sandeep Khaneja on April 01, 2010 Fault Tolerance, high availability, redundancey

Hello Everybody...so this is my first post of a multi-part series of topics covering terms that are often misused or generally confusing. There are a number of topics I want to cover at a general 101 level before looking at each in more detail during a 202 series.

So without further a dieu, those of you that have had the pleasure of working with us may already know that for some reason people confuse Vasanth for me, and vice versa. While we are both awesome people, I assure you we are in fact different people with different parents that aren't even related to each...

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WCI Search Overload Syndrome

Posted by Vasanth Manikumar on March 26, 2010 Enterprise 2.0 Banner Search, Portal, Search Server

Recently, one of our customers asked us to help them improve the search experience for their 6.5 portal users, and before I could even think about the problem, the first thing that popped in my mind was this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1AwFY6MuwE&NR=1

This commercial is so telling of the search-overloaded world we live in, where we are constantly searching for information since the results are so handy.  On some days, I even feel like...

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