I would like to take this opportunity to welcome you to the first edition of The Aquarium. Our goal is to help you do more with less. We will do this by providing you industry news, examples of how other companies have done more with their UCM platform, and tell you about products we offer that help you get more out of your UCM investment.

Have you—like many of the interesting people we have met over the years—ever wondered why we call ourselves Fishbowl Solutions? In honor of our nearly 10 YEARS of business, we are pleased to dispel the myths around our clever and oh-so-memorable name.  Click here to read our story.

I hope you enjoy the information we have provided to you today. I love talking with people about their use of Oracle UCM, so please contact me at any time.

Sincerely,
Tim Gruidl
President and CEO, Fishbowl Solutions
tgruidl@fishbowlsolutions.com

Billy Cripe on Web 2.0 and organizational efficiency:

 “When Web 2.0 technologies are combined with a corporate culture that values participation the result is a decrease in the cost of doing business and an increase in organizational efficiencies.  Ultimately this means that companies can get more out of the people and systems in which they have already invested.  People work smarter, faster, and more enthusiastically when the technology allows them to engage with (rather than simply query) their colleagues.  Systems provide more relevant information to people and processes when they are able to leverage the aggregate inputs, intelligence, and interaction of real live users.”

Billy’s Blog: Fusion ECM

Fishbowl Solutions' Subscription Notifier does the trick.

Most companies have policies and procedures that they rely on for many processes in the organization. Reviewing these important documents and making sure they are up-to-date can be daunting. The situation is made even more complicated by the fact that many different people must contribute to the content.  What happens when the procedures for Disaster Recovery Plans are not up-to-date? The outcome can be very serious.

Learn how one organization used Fishbowl Solutions’ Subscription Notifier™ for Oracle UCM to keep their Disaster Recovery Plans (DRPs) accurate.

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Oglethorpe Power Corporation (OPC) was going green and needed the world to know. The only problem was their corporate website. It needed to reflect their green initiatives and serve as a resource for the public to learn more—this meant a complete redesign and migration to a new architecture. Although OPC had some internal resources to accomplish the website redesign and migration, their aggressive six week timeline meant they needed help. Fishbowl Solutions provided the expertise and experience needed to deliver in just six weeks

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Fishbowl Solutions: the origin of our name.

A fishbowl discussion happens when a group of people share ideas and information.  In an open fishbowl, participation and idea sharing is encouraged, but not required. People enter and leave the fishbowl as they are able to add value to the discussion.

This is how we operate at Fishbowl Solutions. Our work environment is set up so that people can easily jump in when a discussion is happening around a customer question, an opportunity or issue. We don’t work in isolated offices or cubes. Our entire company is built on the foundation of knowledge-sharing and continuous improvement – that’s how we have come up with our family of product solutions and that’s how we create our powerful consulting solutions. This open fishbowl allows us to deliver the best possible solutions to our customers – and it creates a fun and dynamic work space where employees are welcome to jump in and out with their ideas and experience. We all learn (a lot!) from each other and our customers every day. Now you know just a little more about what we are all about.   Feel free to read more about Fishbowl Discussions on Wikipedia if you like.