Showing posts with label Oracle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Oracle. Show all posts

Sunday, May 29, 2016

Oracle Knowledge Management

As customer expectations rise, delivering personalized experiences that improve customer loyalty, increase customer acquisition and optimize efficiency is increasingly more challenging to achieve. It is very important to engage customers in their preferred channel and to minimize the overall effort of that engagement.

A key to minimizing the customer effort is to deploy a knowledge management platform that crosses all channels, presents accurate content from multiple sources, maintains, relevance, and captures feedback for continuous improvement. Oracle Knowledge is a complete knowledge management solution which provides personalized cross-channel service and support.

Knowledge Platform

Oracle Knowledge Platform is an integrated set of knowledge management capabilities including advanced natural language processing, search, flexible authoring and publishing, rich analytics, customizable self-service, and agent facing knowledge applications. Oracle Knowledge is built on a highly scalable J2EE architecture and on Oracle technologies including WebLogic, Oracle Data Integrator, and Oracle Business Intelligence.

Semantic Search

The Oracle Knowledge semantic search capabilities are built on the fundamental understanding of language. Core language dictionaries are available in 20 languages understanding everyday terminology. In addition, multilingual industry dictionaries are available for major industries including high tech, telecommunications, insurance, finance and automotive.

This core understanding of a user’s language is key to finding precise answers from multiple external sources including the knowledge base, web sites, file systems and other internal knowledge repositories. The most recent release of Oracle Knowledge continues to build on this foundation with widely expanded language and geography coverage, significantly increased performance and reduced footprint with faster search response times, faster content processing performance, and a reduced semantic index size, as well as learning-based search ranking for reduced incident handling time. These improved features deliver increased productivity and lower operation costs.

Authoring, Publishing, and Workflow

Oracle Knowledge is designed to help companies to develop a knowledge base as an integral part of a user’s job. Contact center agents and customers create content as a by-product of solving support issues using a powerful, web-based, WYSIWYG rich text editor. Product experts and contact center agents can collaborate with other users and customers to refine or expand the knowledge base.

Advanced editing capability such as global find and replace and replacement tokens improve the article accuracy while lowering operation and knowledge administration costs. Oracle Knowledge comes with valuable tools to manage the life-cycle of articles. Customers can create their own article templates and metadata. The software tracks all revisions of the articles and provides detailed history. Articles may be routed for approval through the use of a workflow. Providing users with the ability to attach files to forum posts allows them to provide additional information to explain their issues. These capabilities improve self-service rates, while expanding the knowledge base and the user community.

The user interface of the authoring system is available in 24 languages, but content can be created in nearly any language. Oracle Knowledge allows customers to manage the relationship of an article across different locales and languages, while providing authors with the ability to develop locale-specific content and metadata allowing fine-tuning of the customer experience.

Analytics

Analytics Dashboards are tailored to functional roles across the service organization. They harness the optimal value of company stakeholders by providing relevant insights at a glance to reduce operational costs, increase employee productivity, and strengthen customer relationships. With the configurable custom KPI wizard for creating KPI with thresholds and triggers, organizations can increase the efficiency of authoring content, increase answer relevancy, and improve the overall insight of knowledge activity.

InfoCenter: Self-Service Knowledge

InfoCenter provides a Knowledge portal for customers and employees with integrated browse and search functionality via a customizable user interface and knowledge widgets. InfoCenter surfaces the power of industry-based libraries, knowledge federation abilities, and natural language processing abilities of the platform to deliver true, intent-based best possible answer to customers. It transforms the self-service experience for customers by providing contextual, and relevant answers to their questions.

iConnect: Agent Knowledge

iConnect provides robust and scalable answer-delivery framework aiding the agent-facing service delivery model. The context-driven user interface simplifies and enhances the user experience and is tuned for increased performance. iConnect is available as an out-of-the box integration into Oracle Service, and Oracle Service Cloud. Open APIs allow for integration into most industry standard CRM applications.

AnswerFlow: Guided Knowledge

AnswerFlow provides consistent service resolution for agents and customers with the prescriptive delivery of knowledge. AnswerFlow combines decision trees with external data that leverages and increases the strategic value of Knowledge Platform across self and assisted service customer interaction channels. AnswerFlow enables to create and deploy automated interactive processes that guide users toward appropriate answers or solutions in cases where:
  • answers are conditional, and can vary based on factors such as account status, location, or specific product or model;
  • diagnosis is complex, and identifying the best response among many possible answers involves asking detailed questions and eliminating alternatives.

Galaxy Consulting has over 16 years experience in many knowledge base applications. We can help you to deploy Oracle Knowledge Management. Contact us today for a free consultation!

Thursday, January 26, 2012

Content Management Systems Reviews - Oracle UCM

Oracle Universal Content Management (UCM), formerly Stellent, is a component CMS and supports the entire content lifecycle. Component CMS manages content at a component level rather than at the document level.

Oracle UCM manages the entire spectrum of unstructured content - from documents, graphics, and Web pages to scanned images, e-mail, and records.

Oracle UCM converts over 500 file formats to web-ready formats such as HTML, XML, GIF and PDF, and delivers content via web sites, desktops, syndication feeds, mobile devices, and web services.

It integrates with Microsoft Office, Outlook, AutoCAD, Lotus Notes. It includes multi-site web content management, document and image management, digital asset management, records and retention management, personalized content delivery, categorization, portal integration, SharePoint integration, document capture and scanning integration, content conversion and transformation.

Unified CMS offers the same set of common functionality in one product for all content types. This eliminates the requirement for integrations between various ECM components. All managed content and services can be accessed from a common user and administrator interface. Features included are search, security, workflow, revision control, content conversion for all types of content, web based authoring and version control.

It includes the following key features: 

  • in-context web site contribution, preview, updates, and approvals;
  • e-mail notifications during workflows;
  • library services, including full-text search, check-in, check-out, and version control;
  • flexible metadata and security;
  • template-based pages;
  • libraries of reusable components and XML-based fragments;
  • native content conversion to web viewable formats, including HTML, XML, and PDF;
  • dynamic delivery and scheduled publishing models;
  • personalized content delivery;
  • scheduled content release and expiration;
  • full digital asset and records management features.

Consolidating the overall architecture on a single code base, security model, and API eliminates the need for integration, leverages a common IT infrastructure, minimizes application development and support costs, enables simple upgrades, maintenance, and training.

Although each type of content requires some unique functionality, such as file plan management or warehouse management for digital and physical records, robust transformation for video files or for digital assets (such as taking Adobe Photoshop files and transforming them to different formats, resolutions, and sizes), and WYSIWYG editors, layouts, and templates, or dynamic and static publishing models for web sites, these independent content management systems all share a common set of services and functionality.

Any of the content management features can be enabled or disabled within the Oracle WebCenter Content platform. The same content publishing capabilities used to build web sites also work with digital asset management, so the customer’s images and videos can be transformed and added to the site. The same document management system also works with records management.

Benefits of a Single Platform

  • Users can create content in Microsoft Word, Visio, or Adobe Photoshop. Whether they are adding content to a web site or collaborating on a presentation, the functions they need stay constant and that is the ability to find content easily, collaborate efficiently, securely store and transform content from one form to another, and deploy it wherever it is needed.
  • A unified architecture offers graphical user interfaces with a common look and feel.
  • Ease-of-use, because document and imaging management, digital asset management, web content management, and records management functions are on the same web interface.
  • Higher productivity because users can perform all content related functions in one place.
  • Consolidating the overall architecture on a single code base, security model, and API eliminates integration, leverages a common IT infrastructure, and minimizes application development and support costs.
  • Dramatically reduced implementation and setup time compared with rolling out separate or integrated systems.
  • Simpler upgrades because all updates occur on a single platform.
  • The unified architecture of Oracle WebCenter Content ensures all ECM applications can be deployed on the same platform, and specific content management capabilities are interchangeable, extensible, and complementary to each other.
  • Oracle WebCenter Content’s unified architecture ensures all ECM applications can be deployed on the same platform, and specific content management capabilities are interchangeable, extensible, and complementary to each other. This single architecture approach allows users to access all content, applications, and content services from a common user interface.