Oracle White Paper—Oracle WebCenter Suite 11g – New Features
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Executive Overview
In today’s hyper-competitive global economy, the ability to be agile and responsive to
change is more important than ever before. Information and the interactions around it
have become the key assets of most enterprises, and making correct decisions in
shrinking cycle times is the defining operating characteristic of winning companies. The
market imperative to access the right information and people at the right time has led to
an increased interest in building a next-generation enterprise workplace. Such a
workplace leverages Web 2.0 technologies and usage patterns to transition the
enterprise to an Internet-powered, user-focused, and community-centric social fabric that
ties together people, ideas, content, processes, systems, and enterprise applications.
Bringing Web 2.0 capabilities and services to the enterprise is about more than just the
latest technology; it's about changing the traditional business model and tapping into the
creativity, intellect, and passion of every single employee. It is much more important for
companies to understand the changing trends in business than to just implement the next
"hot" technology product. Oracle WebCenter enables companies to foster the
development of new ideas, tap into critical employee thinking and knowledge, and enable
the synergy of teams to revolutionize their existing business models and achieve lasting
success.
At the core, Oracle WebCenter is built on a standards-based, open, declarative
framework. This enables combining rich internet applications (RIAs) development through
dynamic user interface technologies with the flexibility of an integrated multi-channel
portal framework and horizontal Web 2.0 services that provide content, collaboration,
presence, and social computing capabilities in the context of a business problem or user
task. In summary, Oracle WebCenter Framework 11g speeds the delivery of next-
generation applications and portals that blend composite interfaces, social communities,
web applications, and departmental and enterprise portals.
To enable businesses and users to quickly leverage the power of WebCenter’s integrated
framework and services, the ready-to-use Oracle WebCenter Spaces application
provides dynamic online communities to quickly share information, collaborate on new
ideas, and manage projects without waiting for IT to build a specialized solution. Simply
install Oracle WebCenter Spaces, and your team or company can be productive
Major new
functionality for
Oracle WebCenter
Suite 11g includes:
1) Oracle
WebCenter
Framework,
2) Oracle
WebCenter
Spaces
3) Oracle
WebCenter
Social
Computing
Services
4) Oracle
Composer
with Oracle
Business
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