The name of the base system (platform): | Oracle Fusion Middleware |
Developers: | Oracle |
Last Release Date: | August, 2013 |
Branches: | Internet services |
Technology: | Corporate portals |
Oracle WebCenter Suite 11g
As a part of a packet of WebCenter Suite 11g there is a content management system and components for creation of portals, websites and compound applications. Besides, WebCenter includes tools of support of joint work Oracle Beehive. According to Oracle WebCenter Suite represents more comprehensive product, than SharePoint, whose installations "in most cases serve as simple file servers". WebCenter allows to organize joint work within key business processes of the organization.
Oracle WebCenter Suite 11g gives to the organizations an opportunity to develop and unroll internal and external portals and websites, composite applications and mashup-components and also the services of social networks and collective work which are closely integrated with corporate applications. Oracle WebCenter Suite 11g integrates functionality of all product portfolio of Enterprise 2.0 and offers ready integration tools with business applications, representing the modern platform for deployment of the environments of collective work managed by information.
Oracle WebCenter Suite 11g increases return from investments into technologies due to turning on of tools of social networks in the existing portals, expansion of opportunities of Oracle applications Applications, effective use of the Oracle Content Management complex and also easy assembly of composite applications thanks to uniform architecture of user environment and an extensive set of the reuse components based on standards. Besides, Oracle WebCenter Suite 11g offers the optimized opportunities of collective work, expanded means of personalisation and also the improved search and use of information in the context of business processes.
In the Oracle WebCenter Suite 11g complex the following functionality is expanded and improved: support of the external corporate websites and Internet communities; mobility with the application for iPhone providing access to content and the statuses to Oracle WebCenter Spaces; means of context search and navigation according to corporate information using the Business Activity Streams component; opportunities for collective work, including voice and web conferences, instant messaging, notifications on presence and search of experts; setup and personalisation for business users who can easily create mashup-components according to business needs; integration into widespread applications for work with text documents, spreadsheets and e-mail; the support of the Content Management Interoperability Standard (CMIS) standard allowing to use content from a set of repositories and systems; the means for developers including the extensive directory of ready components of reuse.
Updating of fall of 2013
The Oracle corporation submitted the new version of the Oracle WebCenter platform which allows the organizations to provide sharing of information in September, 2013, to try to obtain the maximum effect of business operations and to expand interactions on mobile and to web channels.
In modern economy the organizations need to provide for successful business to clients, partners and employees access to information necessary to them in the context of specific business process. The new version of Oracle WebCenter satisfies these requirements thanks to updating of all portfolio, including technologies for deployment of portals, management of web Wednesdays and content and collective work. Helping the organizations to optimize methods of work with information, the new version improves decision making processes and also increases performance of work and business performance.
According to developers, the updated Oracle WebCenter portfolio offers new mobile applications, support of initiatives of BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) and the optimized building tools for fast deployment of mobile portals and websites. The new version includes the optimized tools designed to expand possibilities of business users and to exclude their dependence on IT specialists for the accelerated output of products to the market and cost reduction.
In the whole Oracle WebCenter represents the center of interactions for business offering optimal conditions to clients, employees and partners. So, the new version of WebCenter Portal allows business users more simply and quicker to create intuitive portals with the integrated content of applications, including: rationalizing development processes using the integrated tool kit for mobile and web Wednesdays; providing ready templates for widespread options of use; accelerating creation of portals with editing in the WYSIWYG mode.
In turn, Oracle WebCenter Content simplifies sharing of information and also: manages all lifecycle of content in a scalable content management system; gives to mobile users an opportunity of continuous access to documents through the devices preferred by them; provides use of content in environments of the business applications focused on processes.
Besides, improvements in the product Oracle WebCenter Sites help marketing specialists with the online mode to attract consumers, to direct and turn them into regular customers, including: easily managing the mobile websites and more effectively interacting with mobile consumers; creating the multimedia online environment for clients using video records and other digital marketing content from corporate or cloud environments; reporting more significant search results to help clients with navigation and the choice on their websites.