The New and Improved Drupal Commons

Posted by Avani Cheriathundam on August 26, 2013 Web Experience Management Acquia, Collaboration, Commons

On February 26, 2013 Acquia announced the release of Drupal Commons 3.0 to the public for Drupal 7.  This third generation release by Acquia included several new features to help enhance and accelerate the creation of communities and social applications within Drupal. This distribution is bundled with other modules that are pre-configured to work with Drupal Core.  While Drupal core was designed to be flexible, without much attention to the look and feel, Commons was designed as more of a complete package out of the box.  And Commons is also free to all users.

The first release of...

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Think small, search faster

Posted by Ridwan Ahmed on August 19, 2013 Operational Intelligence search, speed, Splunk

Compared to a few years ago, it is almost unbelievable that we are able to sift the amount of data we can, and the speed with which we can do it. But like the fast cars we drive today that are much faster than similar cars of yesteryear, we get used to the speed we have, and soon wonder: “can it go faster?”

Yes, but with some conditions.

Like Turbocharging, Supercharging, and enlarging the displacement in cars-- all valid ways to make a fast car go faster, --in Splunk there is Report Acceleration, Summary Indexing, and searching tsidx files.  Each has its own benefits and...

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WebCenter Sites 11g R1 (11.1.1.8.0) First Look: The WebCenter Content Connector

Posted by Mitul Patel on August 16, 2013 Web Experience Management 11.1.1.8.0, 11gR1, FatWire
.8 is Here!

With the latest release of WebCenter Sites 11gR1 (11.1.1.8.0 or "dot 8"), Oracle has introduced a bevy of new features strengthening the product's appeal to developers and marketers alike. The Function1 WEM Team is hard at work dissecting these new features and will be sharing with you our findings in a series of blog posts dedicated to covering these latest product enhancements.

Introducing WebCenter Content Connector

The first in line for a "First Look" is the new integration point with Oracle WebCenter Content (WCC), the WebCenter Content Connector. This feature is...

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Publishing WCS content to multiple environments

Posted by Sridhar Polishetty on August 09, 2013 Development, Web Experience Management Customizing the Publishing, Customizing the Transporter, Delivery

Many organizations want to keep content published to a live site and Disaster Recovery (DR) site on a real-time basis to ensure that latest content will be available in case of a disaster.  Prior to the WebCenter Sites 11gR1BP1 Release, we needed to develop a workflow step action and approve the content to both destinations.  This approach has its own problems, and required users to run publish two separate times – one for each environment.

But with 11gR1BP1, Oracle has provided the necessary publishing hookups, which enable developers to transport the content to multiple...

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