Oracle UCM 11g is HERE – Announcements and Useful Links

Oracle Universal Content Management 11g is here! Fishbowl Solutions has been working with the 11g UCM product for several months now – as part of Oracle’s Early Adopter Program. Now that Oracle has announced and made the product available, we can share...

UCM Workflow Explained

Too many people under utilize their workflow capabilities. They create one-way dead end workflows that cannot handle exceptions (what happens if the request form is incomplete?), cannot escalate reviews if someone is out of the office (vacation,  what is that?), and...

Advantages and Disadvantages Between CIS, RIDC, SOAP, and WSDLs

Someone asked about RIDC vs. CIS on the intradoc_users forum and I remembered my Oracle Support article that nicely outlines the main integration points with UCM.  This is a direct copy paste for people who may not have a support login. Content Server Integration...

E20 Lessons from Apple and Microsoft and Market Cap

Apple overtook MSFT in market cap today.  What does this mean for Enterprise 2.0?  Lets break it down. More investors (or at least capital) think they can make more money in Apple than in MSFT. That means they think Apple will sell more than MSFT. What does Apple...

Collaboration Success Depends on Users not Technology

The All Collaboration blog has some startling statistics from their recent survey. If you look at the chart at the right (or click the link above for the full report) you will see that the top four most important factors for effective collaboration are *not*...

The Changing Face of Enterprise Content Management

Content management systems are increasingly becoming back end “black box” content stores. This trend towards commoditization puts a decreasing importance on the system and an increasing importance on the ways in which the system capabilities are surfaced....