Oracle Announces General Availability Of WebCentre Suite

Helping organisations increase productivity and improve user interaction with Enterprise 2.0-enabled portals, composite, and web applications, Oracle has announced the general availability of Oracle WebCentre Suite, a component of Oracle Fusion Middleware.

Oracle has also announced the availability of Oracle WebLogic Portal 10g Release 3 and its immediate inclusion as part of Oracle WebCentre Suite. The new release adds enhancements to further customers’ competitive advantage and provides support for the newly released Oracle WebLogic Server 10g Release 3.

Oracle WebCentre Suite is the latest in a series of products that combine technology from Oracle Fusion Middleware and BEA Systems. A complete, open and manageable user interaction and portal platform, Oracle WebCentre Suite enables organisations to securely deliver extranet and intranet portals along with composite applications that integrate processes, content, business intelligence, and enterprise application information in a single user interface.

The WebCentre Suite also enables delivery of a broad range of Enterprise 2.0 services, such as wikis, blogs, discussion forums, secure search, and RSS feeds, through these portals and communities.

Oracle WebCentre Suite consists of:

Oracle WebCentre Framework – a JavaServer Faces framework to accelerate development and deployment of context-driven composite applications;

Oracle WebCentre Services – a range of Enterprise 2.0, content and communication services – wikis, blogs, voice, community discussion - that can be embedded directly into existing portals and applications to deliver Web 2.0 capabilities within the context of integrated user interactions through portals and applications;

Oracle WebCentre Interaction (formerly BEA AquaLogic User Interaction) – provides open, extensible, and scalable social computing capabilities for delivering team-based community spaces for heterogeneous environments;

Oracle WebLogic Portal – provides a scalable extranet and e-commerce platform to deliver a targeted user experience based on past site interactions and a dynamic user profile leveraging content from any JCR 1.0 compliant repository;

Oracle WebCentre Anywhere - a set of wireless and desktop services that enable users to connect with Oracle WebCentre Suite applications from any connected device, including desktop and mobile applications.

“By bringing together the best user interaction and portal technologies from Oracle and BEA, Oracle WebCentre Suite offers a complete, open and integrated Enterprise 2.0 solution that allows organisations to leverage existing IT investments while providing users with a better, more personalised experience,” said Vince Casarez, vice president, Product Management, Oracle.