Fishbowl Solutions has been delivering enterprise content management (ECM) solutions based on Oracle WebCenter for over 17 years. WebCenter is the only ECM solution we’ve built a consulting practice around and have software solutions for. Its comprehensive capabilities have satisfied numerous customer use cases including employee portals, contract management, and quality control. That being said, we understand customers have other use cases for storing and managing their high value content, and more recently that includes document storage in the cloud.

To satisfy use cases where companies manage the majority of their content with on-premise solutions like WebCenter but may need simple, cloud-bases solutions to manage specific documents that are part of a controlled process – contracts, policies and procedures, etc., Fishbowl developed a proof of concept (POC) for lightweight ECM in the cloud. This solution would provide a low barrier to entry for customers wanting content management capabilities through a simplified user interface that includes a dashboard, document list, and profile driven metadata fields. The other obvious benefit this solution would provide is a much lower overall cost due to a cloud-based subscription model, and less need for development resources and system administrators.

From a development and technology perspective, the team working on this POC discussed how workflow, revisioning, security/permissions, would all need be included to make this a viable solution. Here are some of the technologies they leveraged to develop the solution:

• Development Technologies
  • NodeJS – server-side JavaScript
  • VueJS – front-end development framework
  • ExpressJS – web application framework for NodeJS
  • Semantic UI – CSS library
• Infrastructure Technologies
  • Google App Engine – managed production application environment
  • Google Cloud Database – managed NoSQL object storage
  • Google Cloud Storage – secure, binary file storage

The following are some screenshots of the solution as it appears running on the Google Cloud Platform, but the flexibility of the technologies used to develop the solution means it could integrate with other cloud platforms like Oracle Content and Experience Cloud. Contact us today if you would like more information – info@fishbowlsolutions.com or 952-465-3400. If you are interested in learning more and discussing the technologies involved in the development, please leave a comment and we will get some dialogue going there.