John Brunswick

10 Reasons Enterprise Portal Still Matters

May 12, 2011 | Enterprise Portal, Extranet, Portal, WebCenter

Continued innovation with Rapid Application Development tools like Ruby on Rails, Grails, Cake PHP and others can occasionally prompt IT shops to ask “Given all of these advancements – what value does an enterprise portal framework provide? It seems like I can quickly develop extranet, intranet and other web solutions with RAD tools. Is a portal overkill?” As an architect I...

25 Excellent Oracle WebCenter Resources

April 12, 2011 | 1 | Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise Portal, WebCenter

This list is by no means exhaustive, but for people diving into WebCenter for the first time or existing WebCenter users it is helpful to get acquainted with an established blogging community, various online video series, downloadable VirtualBox appliances, discussion forums, code samples, product tutorials and latest documentation to connect with experts and pick up useful pointers. This post...

Mom’s Enterprise Usability Tip #1 – Avoid Option Overload Plague

March 31, 2011 | Enterprise Portal, Usability

At a recent client meeting I was stunned to see the results of user interface designs created for one of the world’s largest companies by an organization specializing in user exeperience. The design was overly complicated and if put into production would create endless confusion for end users. What may have been represented by a series of simple wizards, turned into a complex maze of...

E2.0 Workbench Podcast 2 – WebCenter PS3 Navigation Models and CSS Menus

January 25, 2011 | 7 | ADF, Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise 2.0 Workbench, Enterprise Portal, Extranet, Web 2.0, WebCenter

Subscribe to this Podcast on iTunesIn our second installment of the WebCenter workbench we take a look at WebCenter PS3′s new Nagivation Model and how it is possible to create fly-out, multi-level drop down menus using it and CSS3 stylesheets. This allows WebCenter navigations to be developed using very common web design and development skills, but take advantage of many other WebCenter...

Decline of Web 2.0 Pure Plays – Power of Low Friction Interaction

December 20, 2010 | AIIM Enterprise 2.0 Experts, Enterprise Portal, Usability, Web 2.0

There is no doubt that the social web has become a staple of modern society. With this maturity comes change. Just as the automobile industry underwent massive consolidation once some common practices were established around manufacturing, Web 2.0 has seen massive consolidation around functionality like tagging, profiles, news - now inherent to the social web. This is witnessed in a series...