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In with the New!

Posted by Caroline Givnish on Friday, October 31, 2014 - 13:20 Function1 function1.com, function1, website redesign, makeover, responsive design, redesign, branding, brand awareness

As we welcome a new season, we invite you to enjoy the revitalized Function1.com! At Function1, we practice what we preach. We are constantly evaluating our brand communication efforts and decided it was time to focus on a modernized, refreshed look for our website. We’re still the same, first-rate enterprise technology firm you met seven years ago; we just needed a little facelift to aptly reflect our ever-expanding team and client base.

Our new home page showcases interactive components including a slider feature as well as the highlighted recent blog posts from every service line...

There's Gonna be Some Changes Made

Posted by Ashish Bhutiani on Tuesday, October 2, 2012 - 15:44 Web Experience Management, Function1 General, responsive, Web Experience Management

Excuse the Bruce Hornsby reference, but it's that time again! Summer is over, football is back on TV, and your favorite TV shows are just getting started. Obviously, it must be time for another Function1 website refresh. For this first phase of the refresh, we were mainly focusing on the design and keeping it in line with our new branding. If you try to access our site in a mobile browser, you will see that we are using a responsive design as Jeremy wrote about in...

Then One Day It Happens...

Posted by Kevin Chu on Friday, May 4, 2012 - 14:00 Operational Intelligence, Function1, Cool Tools Analytics, General, Splunk

Image: nokhoog_buchachon / FreeDigitalPhotos.net

You’ve joined an elite team of engineers and administrators tasked to oversee your company’s technological needs. As your company’s ambitious marketing teams generate more and more buzz, you find that with each day your job circles increasingly around growing your business’s capacity. Months go by filled with unhindered efforts in project completion. You’ve helped double your web traffic, beef up your network, and revamp your monitoring system. ...

Required Reading 3: How Useful is a Use Case?

Posted by Avani Cheriathundam on Tuesday, January 17, 2012 - 02:59 Best Practices, Function1 Best Practices, General

A use case can be formally defined as a list of steps defining interactions between a role and a system, to achieve a goal. However, if you haven’t written one yourself, you have at least heard the term somewhere. But exactly how useful are they when developing a product or defining a system process? Without having the proper understanding of use cases and the purpose of writing one, writing an effective case to elicit functional requirements can be pretty…useless.

Use cases can mainly be viewed as writing a story, so there is no real standardized format for writing them, making it...

An Internship at Function1

Posted by on Wednesday, September 14, 2011 - 21:27 Function1 General, Internship.

My internship at Function1 has been an awesome experience thus far. I was ecstatic for the opportunity and unsure of what exactly to expect. I had just finished a bumpy transition through my first year of college and I wasn't sure if I was entirely prepared for an IT internship at this early stage. Nonetheless, I was excited and determined to capitalize on the opportunity. The small size of the company meant equal attention was given for all and everyone has their own individual place in the company. I also found that it was a laid back environment compared to...

New Look, Same Great Taste

Posted by Ashish Bhutiani on Friday, August 26, 2011 - 09:30 Function1 General

If you visited our site this week or are reading this on our site right now, you would have noticed some big differences. We have a fresh new look, and have started to update a lot of our content. In fact, over the next few weeks you will see even more changes to our site as we finish the process of making our site truly reflect who we are.

Back in 2007, we started Function1 with the goal of being a world-class WebCenter Interaction product and consulting company and our old site reflected that. Now, in 2011, we are still the same WebCenter experts you know and love, but we aren't...

Required Reading: The Basics

Posted by Avani Cheriathundam on Tuesday, June 21, 2011 - 10:37 Best Practices, Function1 Best Practices, General

As a business analyst, requirements management is at the top of my list of interests and is something that is rarely talked about or discussed, but essential to any sucessful software development process. Without requirements, there are no defined statements as to which the project outcome should conform to. Each requirement should be documented, actionable, measureable, testable, and should define a business need or opportunity. This is important to a successful and timely delivery of systems, but when applied correctly, it can be used in all facets of decision making.

The...

Spring Cleaning...Yields a Few New Employees!

Posted by Sandeep Khaneja on Monday, April 18, 2011 - 23:52 Function1 General

Hey!! Guess what I found?? NEW PEOPLE!!

We haven't done an intro blog like this in awhile and realized that we're missing something without it. So, without further ado, I'd like to wish a very belated but heart felt welcome to Mitul Patel, Avani Mehta, Somen De, and Karl Cepull. Not only are they new hires, but they were hired in that order to specifically spell the word MASK with their first names....uhh, what? jk.

Mitul joined the family as a Consultant in November last year. He's a Scarlet Knight with a background in Biochemical Engineering. We were all a bit curious...

Moving to ECM

Posted by Hani Atalla on Sunday, March 20, 2011 - 00:08 Development, Function1, Enterprise 2.0 Collaboration, Development, General, UCM, WebCenter Content

Companies, similar to humans, have norms and habits and Function1 has one. Towards the last quarter of the year, the Function1 fraternity gets to be in teams of threes where each team is tasked with selecting a technology, researching it and, in an exotic company retreat during the month of January, presenting it to the other team members. Given that we come from different schools of thought, it isn't always easy to agree on a technology among the team members (though we are only three) but then democracy prevails (sort of) and the most senior person picks a technology! In the end, our...

Function1 Needs Your Help!

Posted by Ashish Bhutiani on Thursday, March 10, 2011 - 13:50 Function1 General

A couple years, we enlisted the help of our faithful readers to help us pick our logo. We are in the process of revamping our website and are looking at refreshing our logo, so thought we would go to you again for some help. Out of 150 designs, our website team has narrowed down the choices to the four below. Please click here to take a look and let us know your opinion!