Recent Posts by Ken Walker

What is Elasticsearch? ElasticSearch is a distributed, open source search and analytics engine for all types of data, including textual, numerical, geospatial, structured, and unstructured. Elasticsearch is built on Apache Lucene and was first released in 2010 by Elasticsearch N.V. (now known as Elastic). Why Use it? The first search engine used by our Content Server was Verity.  As content repositories got larger, to around 1,000,000+ we outgrew it. The biggest issue was, there...

There has been quite a bit of Buzz about Elastic Search and when WebCenter Content will use it.  Rest easy... that day has arrived!  What's "Elastic Search?"  Glad you asked!  In a nutshell, Elastic Search uses a file system based index, and is an alternative to managing your search index in a Database.  It lends itself well to large repositories (+1M content items).  Elasticsearch is a distributed, open source search and analytics engine for all types of data, including...

WebCenter Content in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Join Senior Product Manager, Santanu Chakraborty as he leads a discussion around how you can move/setup your WebCenter Content to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. In this informative session, you will get a deep dive into the WebCenter Content solution background, some of the common challenges current customers face and how moving to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure provides an overall solution that is easier to manage,...

Oracle Outside In Technology 8.5.5 has been Released   The Oracle Outside In team is pleased to announce the release of Oracle Outside In 8.5.5 into general availability. Oracle Outside In 8.5.5 is now available for download.  The documentation is also available online. Important new features in Oracle Outside In 8.5.5 include the following:     The new supported formats are: Microsoft Access (text only) Windows 2019 Microsoft Office Theme files (File ID only) Windows 2019 Microsoft...

As part of Oracle’s continued commitment to providing the industry’s leading Support offering, the Support End Date for Oracle Outside In v8.5.4 has been extended. Premier Support is extended to December 2020 for the following products: Oracle Outside In Technology 8.5.4 This change is reflected here, in the Lifetime Support Policy.

When you have an issue with a product, finding a solution can be frustrating.  Searching can take too long and search results often seem too random to be helpful.  Opening a Service Request can seem like the quickest way to get help but that can be frustrating too, particularly when the engineer assigned to help you keeps asking for various configuration files and information.  This article will introduce you to a couple of tools to help hasten your path to a solution. If you...

Oracle's WebCenter Content has been serving libraries of content to customers for many years now.  Customers invest time and money bringing a new Content Server online and as time goes by, hundreds, thousands, even millions of Content Items get collected, catalogued, indexed, and stored for easy retrieval and future use.  Now, imagine a scenario where it becomes necessary to move this collection of content to a new home?  This happens more often than you might think....

It's that time again, when efforts to design and create new products and new features require us to cease development on the older releases.  Please be aware that Premier Support for all WebCenter Content 11g products will end, at the end of December, 2018.  Please make a note of these announcements: The Lifetime Support Policy provides access to technical experts for as long as you license your Oracle products, but when Premier Support ends, the following items will no longer...

It seems like only yesterday that our leap into the 12c world of WebCenter Content was upon us.  Yet... here we are, at the end of the grace period for the development of any one-off patches for good old version 12.2.2.0.0!  This means that, going forward, we will (generally) not be releasing any new patches to fix issues specific to this version.  Our first answer will be, "Well, you'll need to upgrade to a fully supported version in order to get a patch for this issue,"...