Oracle WebCenter

Oracle WebCenter is Oracle's portfolio of user engagement software products built on top of the JSF-based Oracle Application Development Framework. There are three main products that make up the WebCenter portfolio and they can be purchased together as a suite or individually:

• Oracle WebCenter Content (includes WebCenter Imaging)
• Oracle WebCenter Sites
• Oracle WebCenter Portal

Webcenter Versions Released:

• 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
• WebCenter 10g (10.1.3.2.0) - released January 2007

WebCenter services capabilities

Social Networking Services - Enables users to maximize productivity through collaboration.

• 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.
• 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.