Wow! It’s always amazing what can be accomplished in a weekend when you give people limitless supplies of calories and caffeine, as well as a hard deadline. Couple that with a lot of competitive fire and the drive to innovate, and you just might be able to produce THREE, new software solutions and spark new product ideas. That’s what transpired during the weekend of April 7th as Fishbowl Solutions held its annual hackathon event. Over 250 hours were spent across three teams as they architected, designed, and developed their solutions. Teams then had to present the business use case for the solution and show a demo to the Fishbowl employees that did not participate in the hackathon. The non-participants then voted for the winner. What follows is a recap of the solutions developed in order of where they placed after the voting.

Controlled Document Management in the Cloud

Team Members: Andy Weaver, Lauren Beatty, Nate Scharber, Brent Genereaux, Amy Mellinger
Solution Summary: The goal for this team was to develop a controlled document management solution in the cloud. Essentially, the team wanted to produce a lightweight, cloud-based version of Fishbowl’s flagship controlled document management solution called ControlCenter. Their demo showed how easy it would be to provision users for the cloud instance, and then the simple steps users would take to begin uploading, reviewing and managing documents in the cloud.

For more information on this solution including some business use cases and screenshots, read this blog post — Fishbowl Innovation: Controlled Document Management in the Cloud

Team Controlled Document Management in the Cloud

ATLAS – Intelligent Chatbot

Team Members: John Sim, Danny Lesage, Amanda Jovanovic, Matt Hornung, Sean Deal
Solution Summary: This team was all about bots. What’s a bot? Well, it’s software that can run automated tasks over an Internet connection. Fishbowl’s resident Oracle UX expert, John Sim, is from the United Kingdom and while John was visiting he shared how Dom the pizza bot enables customers to order pizzas from Domino’s using Facebook Messenger. Sadly, Dom can only facilitate such requests in the United Kingdom currently, but this provided a great example of a bot for personal use (and made everyone hungry for pizza). However, Fishbowl isn’t in the business of “chat commerce” for food, so the team set out to develop a chatbot that could help users find content stored in Oracle WebCenter.

For more information on this solution including some business use cases and screenshots, read this blog post — Fishbowl Innovation: ATLAS – Intelligent Chatbot and Virtual Assistant for Oracle Applications

Team ATLAS: Intelligent Chatbot

Cloud 2 Cloud Content Migrations

Team Members: Tim Gruidl, Jake Ferm, Dan Haugen, Tom Johnson
Solution Summary: The premise of this solution was based on the proliferation of cloud storage/file sync and share systems within an organization and how it would take many steps to migrate or copy content between them. For example, moving or copying content from Microsoft OneDrive to Oracle Documents Cloud Service.

For more information on this solution including some business use cases and screenshots, read this blog post — Fishbowl Innovation: Cloud to Cloud Content Migrations for Oracle Content and Experience Cloud (Oracle Documents Cloud Service) and Other Cloud Storage Providers

Team Cloud to Cloud Content Migrations

This was Fishbowl’s sixth annual hackathon event, and the bar raises every year with the innovative solutions that get created. Here are some more pictures from this year’s event.