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The CMSDK Group provides services in all aspects of Oracle based content management solutions.
Content management is not a stand-alone application. A successful implementation must engage as many components of an enterprises information practice as possible. Step one is the creation of a strategic plan that supports the enterprise Information Technology strategy and business mission. The development of a content management strategy provides the core metrics for the development of an implementation plan and acts as an on-going guideline for initial design, change management, and support.
Oracle CMSDK provides powerful tools to manage security, access, versioning, archival, work flows, and business process management. The CMSDK Group can work with your business and IT management to create an implementation plan that achieves your business goals. The implementation plan identifies user communities, metadata requirements, search options, custom servers and agents, content types, and custom content behaviors. The CMSDK may integrate with Oracle Internet Directory, a third party LDAP service, or other authentication scheme. CMSDK security must be defined in the context of your enterprise directory scheme. As a component of Oracle AS 10g, a CMSDK Domain should have a well organized Domain, Node, and Service structure and a set of Enterprise Manager policies for their management.
Oracle CMSDK is implemented within the Oracle AS 10g J2EE environment. Within this environment we can extend known content types; define specific metadata and behavior requirements; validate attributes; control versioning; create custom search protocols; manage events; integrate with third party applications; and affect almost every aspect of the system - all within the context of a COTS environment administered with Application Server's Enterprise Manager.
The most popular interface to Oracle CMSDK is through a powerful web interface based on JSP and Struts. The CMSDK Group can customize this web interface to meet your specific requirements.
Using WebDAV and Windows technologies The CMSDK Group can create custom user interfaces for the Microsoft Windows user community. as an alternative to the Web User Interface.
Many enterprises have a variety of special purpose applications, sometimes originating from individual departments. Content Management provides an architecture for integrating these department systems into the whole cloth of the enterprise. The CMSDK Group can create custom document parsers and renderers to accomplish this.
A parser is a Java class that extracts structured data from a file being inserted into a CMSDK repository. Common reasons for parsing files on input include repurposing legacy data; reducing the opportunity for human error; minimizing data entry cost and time; and triggering event behaviors such as maintaining audit trails, linking documents to multiple folders, or notifying offices of changes.
Rendering describes the process of transferring a file stored in CMSDK to another storage mechanism. It is not the opposite of parsing. You can render objects that have not been parsed and often rendering can be launched as a result of parsing. Using a custom renderer you can transform a file from any known format into any other format.
Oracle CMSDK is just one component of a successful content management implementation. It provides a repository for the management of unstructured information. We use the term unstructured to describe files in comparison to structured information typical of a relational database.
The CMSDK Group bases our develop on Oracle precisely because Oracle CMSDK is just one component of a total solution. A solution that not only addresses issues of data storage, multi-media, faul tolerance, distributed processing, and scalability in the context of industry standard SQL and J2EE architectures; but a solution that is also designed to integrate with a wide variety of third party applications and solutions.
Seeding a content management system with legacy documents poses challenges that are very different from day to day operation. Performance, security, parsing, auditing, and user interaction are all very different. Bulk loading may take place over an extended period of time. This requires solution of a variety of business process issues. The opportunity for human intervention to respond to and correct ambiguities is absent, requiring a system to identify and queue exceptions for efficient review and correction. These are common problems when any large database is launched and The CMSDK Group has considerable experience in this area.
The CMSDK Group can design custom training programs for your development and support staff so that you can operate, maintain, and extend your CMSDK implementation independently. The most challenging issues are ones your staff are already comfortable with - the operation and maintenance of your Oracle databases and application servers. In as little as a week The CMSDK Group can bring your staff up to speed on the basics of CMSDK administration and development.
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