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Women Empowering Women: The Founder of Lucky Saidaty on Changing the Game for Women in the Middle East

Posted by Caroline Givnish on Thursday, March 8, 2018 - 09:55 Function1, Web Experience Management Women's History Month 2018, women's history month, women in tech, function1, Web Experience Management, WEM, Drupal, Drupal Commerce

March is Women's History Month; a time for recognizing and reflecting upon the achievements of trailblazing women across the globe. I had the honor of speaking with one such disruptor: Saphia Cadet, Founder and CEO of Lucky Saidaty. Lucky Saidaty is an online community that allows women in the Arab world to connect through its...

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No Content Server Explorer for Mac OS? No Problem!

Posted by N'Dèye Gnagna Marianne on Tuesday, February 27, 2018 - 09:17 Cool Tools, Development, Web Experience Management CSExplorer, WCS, Oracle WebCenter Sites, JSK, WebCenter Oracle Sites, Oracle, Eclipse, Cool Tools, WebCenter Sites Developer Tools

After years of owning a PC and taking my environment setup for granted, I landed with a Mac OS that has proven to be a bit of a challenge when it comes to spinning up the 11g JSK. Among the drawbacks is the lack of a Content Server Explorer (CS-Explorer) as the JSK stores it as an executable.

The lack of a Mac installer for the explorer within the JSK is not drastic. Technically, miracles can happen - or close enough - when you have an Intel processor and the help of a third-party tool. However, today I have decided to take a completely different route. Come to think of it, the...

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Modern User Profile Management and GDPR

Posted by Tony Field on Tuesday, February 20, 2018 - 10:01 Web Experience Management gdpr, personalization, WEM, Web Experience Management, user profile management
What does your business think about its customers’ privacy? Since the dawn of the internet, the answer to this question has varied from company to company. Some organizations have gone to great lengths to protect personal information, while others literally exist to aggregate and sell it to the highest bidder. All of this will change starting in May of this year.
 
Citizens of the European Union have sought a more transparent, responsible, and trustworthy attitude towards consumers from its businesses. This has ultimately led to the creation of Regulation 2016/679,...
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Simplify Your WCS Controllers With Your Own Asset Reader

Posted by David Chesebro on Tuesday, February 6, 2018 - 09:47 Development, Web Experience Management 12c, Oracle WebCenter Sites, Oracle WebCenter Sites 12c, Groovy, Asset Reader

Oracle WebCenter Sites 12c introduced the new Asset Reader API. While you may not be ready to use it in your code - maybe your existing DAOs are working just fine or perhaps for performance reasons - you might be thinking: "Wouldn't it be nice if my controller code was this short and simple?" With a few simple code...

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Are you getting the insights you expect from your website search?

Posted by Aiiaz Khan on Tuesday, January 30, 2018 - 08:53 Web Experience Management Web Experience Management, search, Insights, WEM, Strategy, Search Engine

When considering search, the first thought is generally SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and SEM (Search Engine Marketing). Both involve driving and maximizing the visitors to a site or a given page.  However, once they get there, are they getting what they want? Maybe. Can we do more? Probably. How? One way is to factor in the insights from your website search when selecting the content to show them.

We live in a content-centric age where a vast quantity of content is available to everyone. The trick is not only to get people to your site to see your content and show them relevant...

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Maximizing Your Oracle WebCenter Sites Content Management Training - PART II

Posted by Mark Mitchelson on Tuesday, January 23, 2018 - 10:59 Web Experience Management WCS, Oracle WebCenter Sites, Training, Project Planning, Class, Education

Welcome to the second installment of Maximizing your WebCenter Sites Training. In the first article, I outlined a number of recommendations that focused on getting the most out of User, Developer, and Administrative CMS training.  It is critical that attendees know how to hit-the-ground-running, are engaged in system adoptance, and that all groups push towards a successful rollout. In this post, we'll focus on scheduling as it applies to an Enterprise Content Management implementation.

Carefully...

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Extending the REST API Outside of the Box for WebCenter Sites 12c

Posted by Allan Mai on Tuesday, January 16, 2018 - 09:07 Web Experience Management WCS 12c, controllers, Development, Java

While the default REST API in WebCenter Sites 12c continues to provide the same basic and key functionalities for developers to use; if a developer or a project required a deeper and more targeted Sites specific task to be implemented, then this is where a customized controller and tailored end-point would have a place to shine....

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Content-as-a-Service: An Architecture for Evolution

Posted by Aiiaz Khan on Wednesday, January 3, 2018 - 10:40 Web Experience Management WCM, CMS, WEM, CaaS, Content As a Service, Service Oriented, architecture, service, content, Web, Mobile, Omni Channel, Web Experience Management
The one constant in technology is evolution. The CMS space is no exception. With the growth of delivery channels, cloud technologies, microservices architecture, and the progression of web rendering technologies Content-as-a-Service (or CaaS)...
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Not Integrating Your Commerce with Content? Winter is coming.

Posted by Eric Brengle on Tuesday, December 5, 2017 - 09:22 Web Experience Management Oracle WebCenter Sites, Commerce, Content Creation

The customer digital lifecycle has more moving parts than ever before. With each of these individual efforts requiring deliberate planning, coordination, and precise execution in order to move customers towards a transaction, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed.  Are you doing too little? Are you doing too much? How do you manage all these moving parts to ensure your customers are getting the information they need to make a purchase decision? The questions go on and on...

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AI & The Redefinition of Content

Posted by N'Dèye Gnagna Marianne on Tuesday, November 21, 2017 - 08:42 Web Experience Management artificial intelligence, AI, content, CMS, Enterprise CMS, Watson

Let's talk about AI! Why AI? Well, it's incredibly popular and trendy. An analogy can be made between AI and when Coco Chanel rid women of the corset fashion to a sportier, chicer outfit. Risqué, scary, unheard of, but oh so liberating and exciting!

 

If you have been living under a rock without internet connection or communication device, you might be wondering what AI (aka Artificial Intelligence) means. The best definition I could find is the following......

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