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...

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...

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Enterprise 2.0 Interactivity Spectrum – Portal, Content or Both?

September 25, 2010 | Enterprise Portal, Extranet, InfotechAligned, Intranet, Web 2.0

“Should we use a portal or content management system to launch our x, y or z project?” is one of the most common questions heard from from organizations embarking on Enterprise 2.0 projects. It is a complex, critical debate that will has significant implications for future agility and capabilities that IT organizations will be able to deliver to their business sponsors. There is no...

Elevating Customer Experience through Enterprise Social Networking

March 26, 2010 | Enterprise 2.0, Extranet, People Connections, Web 2.0, WebCenter, WebCenter Content

I am not sure about most people, but I really dislike automated call center routing systems. They are impersonal and convey a sense that the company I am dealing with does not see the value of providing customer service that increases positive perception of their brand. By the time I am connected with a live support representative I am actually more frustrated than before I originally...

6 Best Practices for Enterprise 2.0 Implementations

March 12, 2010 | Content Management, Enterprise Portal, Extranet, Governance, InfotechAligned, Intranet, Web 2.0

In the February installment of Oracle’s Enterprise 2.0 Newsletter I had an opportunity to share a series of tips around addressing business issues, management costs and deployment strategies for the latest generation Enterprise 2.0 technologies. Read the complete article – 6 Best Practices for Enterprise 2.0 Implementations: Tips from Oracle’s Enterprise 2.0 Technology Specialist...