Oracle ECM Alerts - Product News & Information

Some of you might have noticed that we recently added a new component called "UCM Clean Content Component" to the UCM Document Management 10gR3 bundle. If you haven't downloaded it yet, you'll find it on the Universal Content Management Product Download page on OTN under the "Oracle Universal Content Management Document Management 10gR3" section.

So what is "Clean Content?" Clean Content is Oracle's really cool SDK that allows you to examine Office documents for hidden content, and if desired, scrub the hidden information from the files. It has been available to Oracle Outside In Technology OEM customers for quite some time, and now we're making it available to UCM customers. Clean Content nicely complements the suite of content filtering and extraction technology offered by Oracle to OEM and UCM customers.

Why is this useful? Many Microsoft Office documents contain hidden content that you're not aware of and would not want exposed to a wide audience. For example, Word documents might contain hidden comments, deleted slides from PowerPoint files might still be in the file, or Excel files that connect to databases might contain database user names, passwords and other connection information that you don't want released.

The Clean Content Component for UCM 10gR3 uses Oracle's Clean Content technology to allow users to examine managed documents for hidden content. The component provides a service that analyzes a managed document, and generates a Document Risk Analysis Report. Users can access this functionality via the "Examine Document" option in the "Action" menu on the Content Information page of the desired item. The component does not automatically scrub content at this time (for example, before publishing files to an extranet or at the end of the workflow before saving the final revision). However, we look forward to adding that functionality in a future release -- stay tuned!

Looking for another justification to attend COLLABORATE in Orlando this year?

Alan Baer and I will be conducting a Two Hour Hands-On Labs focused on the latest release of Oracle's Web content Management solution, Site Studio 10gR4. This will give attendees two free hours of training to learn how to build Web sites that give business users control of content.

The Site Studio 10gR4 2 Hour Hands-On Lab will be held twice:
* Tuesday, May 5 @ 9:45am-11:45am
* Wednesday, May 6 @ 8:30am - 10:30am

Read about the Hands-On Labs.

What's COLLABORATE?
The Independent Oracle user Group (IOUG) is holding their annual user conference in Orlando Florida this year, May 3-7, 2009. Similar to last year, content management will have our own dedicated "conference within a conference" ensuring attendees get a full agenda of best practices, tips and tricks sessions, and an opportunity to network with fellow Oracle content management experts within the community. A bunch of us in product management will be there, come join us!

Learn more.
View the agenda (PDF).
Registration rate discounts end April 23, 2009

Additionally, I noticed they put 3 presentations from COLLABORATE 08 on the site for you to download. Check 'em out!

Joe already blogged about the Site Studio 10gR4 samples and viewlets. The viewlets show how to do key Site Studio tasks, and the samples provide some Site Studio 10gR4 “artifacts” (element definitions, region definitions and templates, etc.) to get started with.

Along with the artifact samples is a new Site Studio Samples site designed to showcase them. This site isn't a traditional sample site. Instead, it presents the "sample" Site Studio objects in a self-documenting way. It’s built with Site Studio, so it’s sort of like an object browser built with the objects it is browsing.

Leaving aside the mind-bending aspects of it, here’s what the sample site looks like. In this screen shot, we've navigated through a region definition, and are now looking at the templates that "know" how to format content authored to that region definition. Note the dependency documentation in the right column.

All the other sample Site Studio objects - page templates, element definitions, region definitions, and subtemplates - are presented in a similar manner and can be accessed using the vertical navigation on the left. The site comes as an archive, and can be loaded into any UCM instance with Site Studio 10gR4 enabled. Tell us what you think about this approach - both the samples themselves, and the site to view them in.

Just a reminder that responses for the 2009 Cohasset ARMA International Electronic Records Management Survey are due tomorrow. Results of this survey provide guidance not only for Oracle, but for the RM industry as a whole.

Please take 15 minutes to complete: http://www.cohasset.com/mer2009survey/

Cheers!