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Does Your WebCenter Sites Deployment Need a Health Check?

Posted by Rick Ptasznik on Tuesday, November 14, 2017 - 11:18 Web Experience Management Oracle, WebCenter Sites, WCS, Health Checks, Assessments, performance

Just as you and I (should) go to the doctor regularly for checkups, major IT systems like WebCenter Sites should also get an occasional health check to ensure that they are operating at peak efficiency. As a complicated enterprise product, there are many potential issues that can impact WebCenter Sites’ performance, uptime, and ease of use. Some issues result from misconfigured settings, or problems that develop over time, including: performance issues due to memory usage, disk space, and database size.

If your environments are experiencing unexpected downtimes and users (or...

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Controllers, At Last!

Posted by Allan Mai on Wednesday, November 8, 2017 - 11:02 Web Experience Management Oracle WebCenter Sites 12c, controllers, WebCenter Sites Developer Tools, Development

The buzz-worthy release of Oracle's WebCenter Sites 12c gives us many reasons to perk up and take note. Among the unveiled features is a long-overdue Model-View-Controller framework; this shiny, new implementation finally provides developers with a clear and clean path for wiring together and rendering content. In the past, we had described a few work-arounds that were viable stand-ins for this piece...

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I Ain't Afraid of No Ghosts!!!

Posted by Mitul Patel on Wednesday, October 18, 2017 - 09:28 Function1, Web Experience Management Oracle WebCenter Sites 12c, Upgrade, Bug, Siteplan Tree, Pages, Data

A Campfire and a Scary Story

With All Hallows Eve aka Halloween fast approaching (my favorite made-up holiday of the year), I figured I would share a little tale of fright, mayhem, blood, and hair raising shrieks in the night... you know, to get you in a spooky mood. So, here goes nothin'... [The setting is night time around a camp fire in a dark wooded area] Once upon a time in quaint southern town, the home of a massive titan of web commerce, there was a web content management deployment with the name WebCenter Sites (WCS). About 3 or 4 months ago, WCS users were ecstatic as...

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Join Function1 at Oracle OpenWorld 2017

Posted by Caroline Givnish on Friday, September 29, 2017 - 14:06 Function1, Web Experience Management Oracle WebCenter Sites, WebCenter Sites, WCS, Oracle OpenWorld, OOW, OOW17

We're in San Francisco this week for Oracle OpenWorld (#OOW17)! While we are looking forward to attending as many of the 2,500 sessions, demos, and hands-on labs offered, we're especially excited about one presentation in particular...

Function1 Vice President (and respected leader in the Oracle WebCenter Sites architecture sphere), Tony Field, is teaming up with Oracle's Sripathy Rao for a discussion on Oracle WebCenter Sites and Oracle Cloud. If you're still building out your...

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Maximizing Your WebCenter Sites Training

Posted by Mark Mitchelson on Wednesday, September 13, 2017 - 08:51 Best Practices, Web Experience Management Oracle WebCenter Sites, Training, best practice, FatWire, Education, Courses

If you’re planning a future Oracle WebCenter Sites (WCS) rollout, developing your first site, or managing website content within WCS, effective and timely training is a key factor towards your success and overall system adoption. Reducing uncertainty and clarifying expectations increases motivation and aligns vision with execution. All users, including casual content contributors and approvers working within intuitive interfaces, will benefit from exposure to the new system and a clear outline of their roles and responsibilities.

Throughout my career, I’ve launched dozens of WCS...

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Oracle WebCenter Sites 12c New Features at a Glance

Posted by Mitul Patel on Tuesday, August 29, 2017 - 09:19 Web Experience Management Oracle WebCenter Sites 12c, New Features, Upgrade

The Early Adopter's Paradox

If you live under a rock or are a hermit and simply haven't heard ... Oracle WebCenter Sites 12c is out! Apologies, since that's a bit too enthusiastic considering it has been out for some time now. Maybe you have heard, but as an early adopter of the latest and greatest software in the past, you've been burned and have sworn off volunteering to be a guinea pig to push that big red upgrade button first. Now, as the seasoned technology professional and/or Technology Manager that you are, you have turned to the tried and true method of  ... "let's let the...

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The Universality of Devices

Posted by N'Dèye Gnagna Marianne on Tuesday, August 15, 2017 - 09:59 Best Practices, Development, Function1, Web Experience Management WCS, sites, WebCenter Sites, device, device group, Vanity URL

Device detection is handled smartly within Oracle WebCenter Sites, but unfortunately there is no clear wiggle room if one wants to not follow Oracle’s recommendation when it comes to mobile support. The platform sniffs out if you are on a desktop or any other mobile device listed in the Device Repository (simple xml file that contains properties for each device that an application wants to differentiate upon). You might think: “Amazing! And WCS already has a file listing relevant default/common devices! I have less work to do.” For a few minutes, you are as happy can be. Until you load...

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Content & Commerce: The Reese's Standard

Posted by Eric Brengle on Wednesday, August 2, 2017 - 12:57 Web Experience Management Oracle WebCenter Sites, Oracle Commerce, WCS

Content & Commerce: The Chocolate and Peanut Butter

There are certain things in this world that are just meant to be together.  Back in college, I had a professor named Wayne Jackson who summed up a Sony/Phillips platform merger as the “Reese’s Standard.” Both Sony and Philips had brilliant standalone products but the real magic happened when you put them together. He’d preach, “On the one hand, you had Sony; the chocolate. And then over here you had Phillips; the peanut butter. Now bring those two sides together and you have yourself a Reese’s.”

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