Great Expectations: Best Practices for Ensuring a Successful Client Engagement

Posted by Puja Katari on March 09, 2017 Best Practices successful client engagement, mitigation, expectations

In my experience, one of the most important and challenging tasks for any project is to set and manage the expectations of the customer from project initiation to delivery. Throughout the project life cycle, expectations should be monitored and managed to ensure a successful engagement. 

I know that sometimes it’s hard not knowing exactly what to do and it can take some trial and error to figure out what works best.  I’ve realized that the first thing to figure out is when these disconnects can occur.  Once that is ironed out, one can work through ideas on how to prevent them in the...

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Celebrating Function1's Women in Tech: Meet Casey Fox!

Posted by Caroline Givnish on March 08, 2017 Function1 women in tech, balance the equation, gender equality

In the second edition of our Function1 Women in Tech Interview Series, I had the privilege to sit down with Casey Fox to discuss her career as a Front End Developer. Casey shares how her parents and a special teacher played key roles in shaping her interest in the field of technology and talks about the importance of showing her young daughter that...

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Solving the Doctype Filter Insufficiency in Oracle WebCenter Sites

Posted by N'Dèye Gnagna Marianne on March 07, 2017 Best Practices, Development, Web Experience Management WCS, WebCenter Sites, Doctype

I bet that you have once created an asset, with a doctype filter, uploaded a file as an attribute, and noticed that the filetype and mimetype were not getting pulled. You checked the file once again to see that it had an extension and was actually not corrupted either. Everything seemed ok. You edited the asset. Re-saved it. Shook your head. Sweated a bit. Checked the asset definition to make sure that the doctype filter was still associated with the definition. Checked the doctype filter's attribute names. Well, you never know... a typo here and there... Nope. Nothing. You just don't know...

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Fighting Financial Fraud with Splunk

Posted by Naveed Krabbe on March 02, 2017 Best Practices, Function1, Operational Intelligence Splunk, Fraud, Security
Introduction

It comes as no surprise that as the banking industry is increasing its online presence, financial organizations are making fraud detection and prevention a top priority. Fraud can have a significant impact to organizations both financially and operationally. Of course, in addition to large monetary losses, damage to reputation and customer relations can also occur that further highlight the impact of fraud.

The ability for organizations to perform advanced analytics on their data is necessary to recognize and respond to patterns of fraud. Simply stated, quicker fraud...

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Celebrating Function1's Women in Tech: Meet Neena Bhutiani

Posted by Caroline Givnish on March 01, 2017 Function1 women in tech, function1, balance the equation

What better way to honor Women's History Month than to highlight and celebrate some of the very talented women we are privileged to work with here at Function1?! Neena Bhutiani, Splunk Certified Architect and Operational Intelligence Practice Manager, kicks off our Function1 Women in Tech Interview Series by discussing her leap of faith into the...

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