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Oracle WebCenter is Oracle's portfolio of user engagement software products. It is part of Oracle Fusion Middleware. There are three main products that make up the WebCenter portfolio and they can be purchased together as a suite (Oracle WebCenter Suite Plus [1]) or individually.[2]

Each of these products are in separate but connected markets. WebCenter Content competes in the Enterprise Content Management market. WebCenter Portal competes in the self-service portal and content delivery market space. WebCenter Sites competes in the Web Experience Management market. Different combinations of these products are frequently used together, so Oracle has bundled them together within the same WebCenter product family.

Oracle WebCenter contains a set of components for building rich web applications, portals, and team collaboration/social sites. Oracle WebCenter is targeted at enterprise and larger accounts that have significant content management requirements and the need to deliver that information with internal or external portals, customer-facing websites or within integrated business applications. Oracle has made a particular effort to integrate WebCenter into its leading business applications such as E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft and JD Edwards so that content can be centrally managed in one location and shared across multiple applications. For the development community and advanced business users, WebCenter provides a development environment that includes WebCenter Framework and WebCenter Services along with an out-of-the-box application for team collaboration and enterprise social networking. According to Oracle,[3] this is the strategic portal product, eventually replacing Oracle Portal as well as the portal products acquired from BEA.

Products

Oracle WebCenter Content (includes WebCenter Imaging)

Originally obtained from the Stellent acquisition.

Oracle WebCenter Portal

Originally obtained from the BEA Systems acquisition.

Oracle WebCenter Sites

Originally obtained from the FatWire acquisition.

History and Version

There have been several deprecated products and features under the WebCenter umbrella. Some of these have been merged into other products. These include the following:

  • WebCenter Interaction
  • WebCenter Framework
  • WebCenter Services
  • WebCenter Spaces (now just known as WebCenter Portal)
  • WebCenter Social Network (replaced by Oracle Social Network - OSN)

Versions

12c
  • 12.2.1.0.0 - the first 12c release - released October 2015[4]
11g
  • WebCenter 11gR1 PS8 (11.1.1.9.0) - released May 2014
  • WebCenter 11gR1 PS7 (11.1.1.8.0) - released Aug 2013
  • WebCenter 11gR1 PS6 (11.1.1.7.0) - released Apr 2013
  • WebCenter 11gR1 PS5 (11.1.1.6.0) - released Feb 2012
  • WebCenter 11gR1 PS4 (11.1.1.5.0) - released May 2011
  • WebCenter 11gR1 PS3 (11.1.1.4.0) - released Jan 2011
  • WebCenter 11gR1 PS2 (11.1.1.3.0) - released Apr 2010
  • WebCenter 11gR1 PS1 (11.1.1.2.0) - released Nov 2009
  • WebCenter 11gR1 (11.1.1.1.0) - released July 2, 2009

Cost

Cost varies per product. Licensing costs are maintained by Oracle on their Oracle Technology Global Price List. As of December 1, 2015, the costs are as follows:[2]

Product Named User

Processor

Content $3,450 $172,500
Portal $2,500 $125,000
Sites $2,000 $100,000
Suite Plus $4,000 $200,000

For other items, such as additional WebCenter SKUs and software update licensing and support, see the full Price List.[2]

Oracle often provides restricted-use licenses for related products when purchasing a certain product.[5] A full list of features and restricted-use licenses can be found at the Oracle Fusion Middleware Licensing Information User Manual - Oracle WebCenter.[1]

In addition, WebCenter needs a database to store information: any supported and licensed database such as Oracle database, MS SQL Server or IBM DB2 will work.

WebCenter Portal capabilities

Social Networking Services - Enables users to maximize productivity through collaboration.[citation needed]

  • People Connection – Enables users to assemble their business networks like linked-in
  • Discussions - Provides the ability to create and participate in threaded discussion. This is an embedded version of Forums provided by Jive Software.[6]
  • Announcements - Enables users to post, personalize, and manage announcements.
  • Instant Messaging and Presence (IMP) - Provides the ability to observe the online presence status of other authenticated users (whether online, offline, busy, or idle) and to contact them.
  • Blog - Enables blogging functionality within the context of an application.
  • Wiki - Self-service, community, oriented-content publishing and sharing.

Shared Services - Provides features for both social networking and personal productivity.

  • Documents - Provides content management and storage capabilities, including content upload, file and folder creation and management, file check out, versioning, and so on. WebCenter Portal includes a restricted-use license of Oracle's enterprise content management product called WebCenter Content (formerly known as Universal Content Management)
  • Links - Provides the ability to view, access, and associate related information; for example, you can link to a solution document from a discussion thread.
  • Lists - Enables users to create, publish, and manage lists. (Available only in WebCenter Spaces)
  • Page - Provides the ability to create and manage pages at run time.
  • Tags - Provides the ability to assign one or more personally relevant keywords to a given page or document. This feature is similar to the del.cio.us website.
  • Events -Provides group calendars, which users can use to schedule meetings, appointments, and any other type of team get-together. This feature requires deployment of a separate calendaring server, which may be Oracle Beehive or Microsoft Exchange. (Available only in WebCenter Spaces)

Personal Productivity Services - Focuses on the requirements of an individual, rather than a group.

  • Mail - Provides integration with IMAP and SMTP mail servers to enable users to perform simple mail functions such as viewing, reading, creating, and deleting messages, creating messages with attachments, and replying to or forwarding existing messages.
  • Notes - Provides the ability to "jot down" and retain quick bits of personally relevant information. (Available only in WebCenter Spaces)
  • Recent Activities - Provides a summary view of recent changes to documents, discussions, and announcements.
  • RSS - Provides the ability to publish content from WebCenter Web 2.0 Services as news feeds in RSS 2.0 and Atom 1.0 formats.
  • Search - Provides the ability to search tags, services, an application, or an entire site. This makes use of a license limited version of Oracle's Secure Enterprise Search (SES) product.
  • Worklist - Provides a personal, at-a-glance view of business processes that require attention. These can include a request for document review and other types of business process that come directly from enterprise applications.

Standards support

[citation needed]

See Also

References

  1. ^ a b "Oracle Fusion Middleware Licensing Information User Manual - Oracle WebCenter". Retrieved 2016-01-01.
  2. ^ a b c "Oracle Technology Global Price List" (PDF). Oracle Corporation. Retrieved 1 January 2016.
  3. ^ Oracle Fusion Middleware Update, Enterprise 2.0: User Interaction and Portals
  4. ^ "Oracle WebCenter 12c Released - JonathanHult.com". JonathanHult.com. Retrieved 2016-01-01.
  5. ^ "Oracle licensing - Oracle FAQ". www.orafaq.com. Retrieved 2016-01-01.
  6. ^ http://tardate.blogspot.com/2008/01/backup-your-webcenter-wiki-yikes.html
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