Best Practices

Work From Home Successfully

Posted by Avani Cheriathundam on Thursday, October 20, 2016 - 08:46 Best Practices work from home, Best Practices, tips, project management

While working from a virtual environment offers many benefits, it can sometimes be challenging with all of the various distractions, which you may not experience in an office environment. From thinking about and tackling your day-to-day responsibilities, to having a television nearby, all of these things can easily run you off course making it difficult to concentrate on work and manage your time efficiently.

Below are some tips that can help curb those distractions, and allow for you to be successful in the workplace, whether you work from an office or not.

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The Open Front Door to your Data - Announcing a White Paper by Function1

Posted by Rishi Das on Tuesday, September 20, 2016 - 09:06 Best Practices, Data Security data security, web applications, cyber security, vulnerabilities, safety, protocols, network security, data storage, data accessibility, standard, protection, secure

Generations ago, documents and prized objects were hidden from the public, secured in the safes of many homes, offices, banks, and institutions. Under close protection, as well as under lock and key, this tangible-data was protected from unauthorized parties through the implementation of time-tested procedures.

As the world changed and technology improved, the methodology for approaching and securing this data changed as well. In our February 2015 White Paper, Protecting the CIA, we discussed the importance in protecting the...

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To Review or Not to Review – That Is the Question.

Posted by Puja Katari on Tuesday, September 13, 2016 - 09:15 Best Practices project management, performance reviews, performance evaluations, employee reviews, performance review benefits, employee feedback, yearly reviews, performance appraisals, rating systems, mid-year reviews

I’d like to think that there is the perfect employee out there in the world, but in reality, no one is really perfect. Isn’t everyone’s definition of a perfect employee different anyways based on the company’s needs? We all have certain standards and expectations of our company, colleagues and ourselves and need to make sure that at the very minimum these are met. A company is only as good as its employees, right?

In order to ensure that employees are performing at their best and are continuously improving, a company should define a clear performance review process. It also...

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Work from Home Hacks: 7 Telecommuting Productivity Boosters

Posted by Caroline Givnish on Thursday, August 25, 2016 - 12:10 Best Practices productivity, hacks, Best Practices, project management

It’s no surprise that telecommuting continues to steadily rise with the promise of flexibility and cost-efficiency resonating among employees and employers alike. For employees, the benefits of working remotely are pretty obvious: eliminating a long commute; wardrobe savings; and availability for family, to name a few. But, what’s in it for employers? Besides the tangible allure of savings in real estate-related costs, businesses that offer the ability to work from home benefit from an increased level of...

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Managing AngularJS Content within Oracle WebCenter Sites

Posted by Eric Brengle on Tuesday, July 26, 2016 - 10:04 Best Practices, Development, Enterprise 2.0, Function1, Web Experience Management AngularJS, Oracle, WebCenter Sites, Content Management, Contributors.

There are a multitude of reasons organizations will turn to a content management system, but the underlying goal is the same across the board: Managing your content in an organized way. The examples that first come to mind include managing assets such as page titles, articles, images, but what happens when a more complex asset is introduced like an AngularJS widget?

A Tale of Two Cities:

With WebCenter Sites you don’t have to give up control of the contents of your organization’s widgets. Out of the box WebCenter Sites does not natively support...

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Splunk Knowledge... Share it Through Documentation

Posted by Naveed Krabbe on Tuesday, July 5, 2016 - 10:33 Best Practices, Operational Intelligence Splunk, Documentation, Content Creation

Anyone who has worked in professional services knows that technical documentation is always requested for any type of content delivery. Of course the importance of documentation extends far beyond the consulting realm, as it is always a good practice for organizations to document their technical content. In today's blog I will attempt to write a non-technical blog about documenting technical Splunk content.

So what should be included in Splunk content documentation? Here is a breakdown, by heading, of the information that I have found to be very key in any Splunk content and use...

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Wellness at Function1

Posted by Vidhya Amirthalingam on Thursday, June 30, 2016 - 13:28 Best Practices, Cool Tools Wellness Program, FitBit

In 2014, Function1 launched a Wellness Program with the goal of promoting a healthy workplace through fitness and wellness challenges. We have run a number of challenges over the years, ranging from step challenges using FitBit devices to meeting personal goals. The average length of the challenges has been 3 months and participation has ranged from 40% to 60%, depending on the challenge. We have also incentivized participation through rewarding winning participants and/or teams with gift cards.

In order to gain insight and tips on improving Function1’s wellness strategy,...

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A Quick Migration of WordPress to Drupal 8

Posted by David Thompson on Thursday, May 26, 2016 - 10:20 Best Practices, Drupal Drupal 8, migrate module, Content Migration, Drupal Migrate, Migrate WordPress to Drupal, WP to Drupal 8, Quick Migrate

I recently discussed a DIRECT workflow for migrating WordPress to Drupal 8.

That process assumes you want to install WordPress on your local computer. But, remember that WordPress, being a CMS like Drupal, also requires Apache, mySQL and PHP. Below I'll show you how to get that local WordPress environment setup. BUT, the thought of setting up a new development environment for Wordpress might make you cringe, especially if you love Drupal the way I do. If so, skip that part, you really don...

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A Direct Migration of WordPress to Drupal 8

Posted by David Thompson on Thursday, April 28, 2016 - 09:07 Best Practices, Drupal Drupal 8, Drupal Core, Content Migration, Migration, data migration, Big data, Data On-boarding, Data

Migrations from WordPress to Drupal are required when customers are standardizing on Drupal to ease institutional IT staffing requirements, or they just want the many additional customization capabilities built into Drupal. Here is how to migrate your WordPress data directly into Drupal 8 using the Migrate API.

Here is one workflow to get started quickly …

1. Setup your D8 site (drupal-8-0-5) locally. This blog post assumes your WP site is already setup on your local environment....

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Jive to Drupal Migration

Posted by Hani Atalla on Tuesday, April 19, 2016 - 10:04 Best Practices, Development, Drupal jive, migrate module, postgresql, Drupal, data migration

Recently, Function1 was engaged to perform a Jive migration project to Drupal 7 and specifically the Open Atrium 2.0 distribution since Jive is a communication and collaboration platform. As a team, we are familiar with Open Atrium and have used it few times on multiple projects and know its different content types. The challenge was in grabbing the data from the PostgreSQL database, which had close to 300 tables, and formulating the data source to map to the target Open Atrium content types.

In performing the migration, we extended the Drupal Migrate...

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