As part of the Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g launch, Oracle has announced the general availability of Oracle WebCenter Suite 11g, an enterprise portal platform, which will help increase productivity for business users and IT by bringing together people in organisations with the business processes and information they need to access.
New and enhanced features, which enable users to build and manage online business communities that help capture and strengthen relationships between people, processes, applications and information to accelerate strategic decision-making include: Oracle WebCenter Spaces, Oracle WebCenter Services, Oracle Business Dictionary, Oracle Composer, Task Flows and pre-packaged integrations.
Business users can create portal mashups that consolidate business applications, business intelligence, content, and social computing services on a single screen. This puts relevant communities, information, and the tools to make key business decisions at users’ fingertips.
To simplify implementation, Oracle WebCenter Suite 11g bundles enterprise content management, enterprise search, business process management, and Presence capabilities. As a component of Oracle Fusion Middleware, it extends the value of existing strategic investments through certified integrations with Oracle Database, Oracle Identity Management, Oracle Business Intelligence, Oracle Applications and several third-party applications.
New Capabilities
- Oracle WebCenter Spaces is a personal and team work-environment for business users to create formal and ad hoc Web-based communities to simplify or accelerate completion of projects or business processes. Oracle WebCenter Spaces is pre-integrated with Microsoft Office, and built to scale out from departments to the enterprise.
- Oracle WebCenter Services provide social computing services like tagging, linking, recent activity, RSS, ratings, people connections, and activity graphs, which enable users to integrate these technologies with their enterprise applications and collaborate with others.
- Oracle Business Dictionary is a role-specific library of enterprise applications, business intelligence, business processes, enterprise content and information that IT and business users can combine, edit, share and customise to create executive dashboards.
- Oracle Composer is a browser-based tool that enables end-users to customise portals and composite applications with social computing services. Using Common Metadata Management, personalised settings are stored as a layer on top of the base application, which speeds the work of IT and insulates users from updates and patches regardless of their customisations.
- Task Flows offer more than 50 pre-built components that can be individually exposed as portlets or customised to deliver a range of user experiences enabling developers to re-use and combine individual portlets into complex portals and applications.