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Oracle WebCenter Sites for Mobile Devices

Posted by Somen De on Friday, February 10, 2012 - 23:36 Web Experience Management, Best Practices FatWire, linux, mobility server, ms admin, Oracle WebCenter Sites, WEM

Do you currently have websites built on the Oracle WebCenter Sites product suite? Would you like to leverage your existing WebCenter Sites install to support mobile devices? If you answered yes to both, we are happy to report that there is a great add-on product that will greatly simplify the process of supporting mobile devices.

Here at Function1, we are proud to be industry leaders in implementing websites with WebCenter Sites (formerly Fatwire).  In addition, we are excited to be partnering with Netomat...

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Required Reading 3: How Useful is a Use Case?

Posted by Avani Cheriathundam on Tuesday, January 17, 2012 - 02:59 Best Practices, Function1 Best Practices, General

A use case can be formally defined as a list of steps defining interactions between a role and a system, to achieve a goal. However, if you haven’t written one yourself, you have at least heard the term somewhere. But exactly how useful are they when developing a product or defining a system process?  Without having the proper understanding of use cases and the purpose of writing one, writing an effective case to elicit functional requirements can be pretty…useless.

Use cases can mainly be viewed as writing a story, so there is no real standardized format for writing them, making it...

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Best Practices for your Splunk Deployment: Indexer Performance

Posted by Sandeep Khaneja on Tuesday, November 22, 2011 - 04:40 Best Practices, Operational Intelligence

Function1 is a Professional Services Partner to Splunk.  We have gathered a wealth of experience in conducting dozens of consulting engagements in conjunction with Splunk PS, and now we want to share some of our Best Practices with you. The most common growth of a Splunk deployment starts from a utility used by your Systems Administrator to find that needle in the haystack issue,  and grows to an enterprise scale reporting tool used by the leaders of your organization.  Splunk as an enterprise platform is typically situated in a very prominent place in the decision-making process of your...

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Required Reading 2: Change Management and You

Posted by Avani Cheriathundam on Monday, November 7, 2011 - 20:59 Best Practices

Change is never easy, but acclimating to change that you are unprepared for, is even harder.  In the IT world, a standardized change management process ensures that there is minimal impact due to any changes that are imposed.  It is especially important to have the proper change management process in place because changes can affect anything from multiple users, disrupt key business activities, involve modifications to the infrastructure, or involve process modifications. It also facilitates efficient and prompt handling of all changes maintaining balance between the need for change and...

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Required Reading: The Basics

Posted by Avani Cheriathundam on Tuesday, June 21, 2011 - 10:37 Best Practices, Function1 Best Practices, General

As a business analyst, requirements management is at the top of my list of interests and is something that is rarely talked about or discussed, but essential to any sucessful software development process. Without requirements, there are no defined statements as to which the project outcome should conform to. Each requirement should be documented, actionable, measureable, testable, and should define a business need or opportunity. This is important to a successful and timely delivery of systems, but when applied correctly, it can be used in all facets of decision making.

The...

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Known limitations with the Web Center Interaction

Posted by Vasanth Manikumar on Wednesday, June 10, 2009 - 01:05 Best Practices Best Practices

Hey all!

Over the last few months, I've had 2 customers run into 2 separate limitations with the Oracle Web Center Interaction(WCI) product, namely in version 6.1 MP1.  The first of the two cases I had run into previously, so that prompted the idea for this post to share and build a running list of these limitations.  The second of the 2 cases led me to dig deeper to find the reason for these constraints.  What are these limitations you ask?

Well for example, if you're working with ALUI 6.1MP1, did you know that the maximum number of pages created within a community...

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PTSpy log messages linked to ... hair loss?

Posted by Vasanth Manikumar on Monday, April 13, 2009 - 11:01 Best Practices Best Practices, ptspy

For the past few years, researchers have been perplexed about the causes behind the increased rate of hair loss in ALUI portal administrators. So, a team from Function1 took on the task of tracking these subjects for a few months and recorded the findings. One of the interesting things discovered was that the cause was not genetic or gender-specific in most cases. It was actually the simple explanation of the subjects repeatedly pulling on their hair while investigating problems with the portal.

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