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Dmitri Khanine

Hi, I'm Dmitri Khanine and yes, I'm not kidding or trying to play a trick on you. When I was working on my first Stellent (now Oracle UCM/ Web Center Content) project 7 years ago, I would have practically killed to know the truth about how the original group of product designers were approaching similar situations. I knew these guys were really fast. The had to be, otherwise how else did they manage to deploy the suite to dozens of large enterprise clients and keep them happy for years - with just a handful of consultants? I knew that it took them days, not months to roll out the Content Management and setup live interactive web sites with Site Studio.... but how?! Thousands of pages of vaguely written documentation and the wall of  secrecy surrounding the actual design patterns, best practices, do's and don't's of a successful UCM rollout made finding out practically impossible - until now!.

The proper use of design patterns, best practices and shortcuts is probably the most important thing any serious Oracle UCM professional can know! After seeing enough of the "new guys" risking their projects and their careers simply because no one was willing to give them the straight-up info (some of the practices I saw on people's projects are downright dangerous and lead to nasty things happening pretty fast)... I finally got pissed off enough to do something!

Last year I've published The Oracle UCM Handbook where I gave the first-ever lightning-fast introduction, that allows people to literally get up and running in a short afternoon and tap into insider secrets and breakthrough shortcuts of the product. I continue to publish more and more tips, tricks shortcuts and gotchas on my Youtube Channel and my blog and I've even started a thread on Oracle UCM Design Patterns... I'm giving away for FREE to you what took us years of nerve-racking experimentation and thousands of dollars to develop!

But this is to your advantage, and I would grab this advantage while you can! I truly didn't think that my Knowledge Center project would even get this far... and we're still waiting for the industry leaders to shut us down.

But I gotta warn you...

No matter how much good information you consume on a subject - Oracle UCM or anything else - there's still no substitute for years of hands on experience down in the trenches. Yes, I can slash months and even years off your learning with my tips and insider information, but there will come a project where plain old outside opinion will come in very, very handy.

Notice, I'm not saying "consulting" or even "help"! A lot of times all it takes is a quick tip. A short course correction... to steer you back to safety... back to your way to a successful project.

Last week a large Government corporation form the West called us to check on their Site Studio web site. Took us 3 days to do a new simple version of the site... A shocker considering that they spent their last 3 months running in circles trying to make Site Studio do it for them just right. They got too close to the problem and over-complicated things started to seem normal...

Geez, even the brightest of surgeons get together and chat about the operations they are about to do. There's a real danger in getting all-too-close to a problem at hand. Losing perspective is dangerous and a fresh look from outside may be all you need to see a perfect solution.

And that takes me right to the promise I made in the title. Yes, I'm not kidding about the time on the phone and even a free goto meeting session. Listen, if you feel stuck or just have a slight feeling you might benefit from an expert opinion - give me a shout. I'm happy to give you a free sample of what we do for our clients, no strings attached. Will take a look at your systems, talk to your team and give you a hand.

But there's one condition. There's always a "condition" right? Nah. Its not one of those about contacting me at 4 AM on the last Friday of a leap year and answering a stupid math question. Nope. Its just this simple one: you must be serious.

There's a lot of Oracle clients out there actively seeking our help and I'm not going to waste any cycles on tire-kickers and wanna-bes. We're not a free training office or a career counselling shop and we're not helping the individuals. If you trying to get a job with Oracle Web Center- read a book, listen to a quick start course and get some practice that way. If you have questions on Java - go to online forum.

I'm only helping the real Oracle Clients and serious System Integrators. Why? 'Cause a typical UCM project can make or break dozens of business processes with lots of people involved and have a very real impact on the health of an organization. An individual's career... Hmmm.... not so much.

I hope you understand...

One last thing - this phone consultation and a web session thing with no strings attached - its all new and I'm helping people on the first come - first served basis. I'm still gonna be there for our existing clients along with my team... Actually, they take precedence, so if you think your project might benefit from an independent opinion of one of the top folks in Oracle UCM - don't delay. Drop me a line at dk at stellentexperts dot com and will get started.

Yours truly,
Dmitri's Signature 

Dmitri Khanine
Sr. Architect, ECM Solutions,
Author, The Oracle UCM Handbook

P.S. This friendly offer I'm extending here may not be around for long because I'm already getting a lot of flack from certain industry-types who don’t want this type of information and advice available to guys like you.
  
P.P.S. One last thing - its important. Please read the following "testimonials" now.
 
What clients are saying about Dmitri

 “I was very happy having someone like Dmitri on the team, as he was extremely dedicated and I could trust what he was saying” …

Wendy Hart, Web and Communications Coordinator, Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services

 “Dmitri has proven to be instrumental to successful and timely delivery of multiple content migration projects. His knowledge of Oracle Universal Content Management as well as his customer services skills is unparalleled” …

Erin Leith, Project Manager, Enterprise Technology Solutions, Justice Technology Services

“… we are grateful to Dmitri for helping us through our crises and making the project go as smoothly as it did."  …

Deb McGarvey, Business Support Analyst, Ministry of the Attorney General

“Dmitri's patience and dedication played a critical role in making SharePoint 2007 pilot in CEG a success…” 

Ken Klinger, Director, Consumer Electronics Group, AMD

"Dmitri has played an important role in WPS over the years and more recently on the Global Disclosure project, the CRM and the EWCMS projects, 3 very tough initiatives." …

Dan Oliver, Manager, Application Development, Royal Bank of Canada

"You're about the strongest developer, and you're also someone I really enjoy working with.."

Harris Demel, Manager, E-Business and Web Initiatives RBC Capital Markets,

"Dmitri's help with design of Household Maintenance System saved us over two months of manual labour….. " 

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