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Oracle Opens the Door to Secure, Dynamic Communities
Thanks to Oracle WebCenter Spaces, a new component of Oracle WebCenter Suite 11g, business users can increase their productivity by creating secure online business communities that don’t need the help of IT departments to launch them.
The just released Oracle WebCenter Spaces combines the latest technologies for social computing and personal productivity so business users can create dynamic communities for sharing information, collaborating on new ideas, and managing projects. “Because Oracle WebCenter Spaces enables group and team productivity out of the box, business users create communities and group workplaces on their own without having to wait on IT,” says Ann Fellman, principal product director, Oracle.
The WebCenter Spaces solution also delivers the immediate productivity and connectivity gains seen with public social networking sites, while providing the enterprise-class security and reliability that is typically missing, she adds.
Oracle WebCenter Spaces supports a broad spectrum of communities – from small workgroups and departments to the entire enterprise including partners and customers. Built-in templates help business users quickly launch communities for team-oriented activities such as developing a new product, creating a new marketing campaign or addressing a customer support issue. Each solution can be highly personalized for the group and business objective at hand; access to shared content is controllable via role-based security and business users can easily create new application content via a mashup-style drag-and-drop interface.
WebCenter Spaces Extend the Value of Applications and Processes
A significant advantage of Oracle WebCenter Spaces is the ability to integrate business applications and business processes into group spaces. This lets cross-functional teams see and share content from business applications such as Oracle E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft, Oracle Siebel CRM, or from various third-party applications and content repositories such as SAP and Microsoft SharePoint.
Application integration means that a far-flung sales team can use Oracle WebCenter Spaces to share and act on Siebel CRM forecasting data gathered from multiple sales regions. Similarly, an accounting team can input tasks from Microsoft Project and match key deliverables with invoices from an ERP system. Or managers can bring together data from enterprise systems with documents in Microsoft Office and securely share the results with customers and colleagues.
Coupled with WebCenter Spaces’ enterprise-ready Social Computing Services, such as wikis, blogs, tags, links, RSS, and discussion forums, teams and individuals are empowered to effectively concentrate their efforts on solving concrete problems using the most appropriate productivity tool available. With very little effort, they can create Group Spaces neatly tailored to the unique needs of their team or community, providing a central access point for group communication and project resources.
Ensures Security and Scalability
Because Oracle WebCenter Spaces provides enterprise-class social networking within an organization’s IT infrastructure, it enables enterprises to maintain complete control over the security, reliability, and scalability of users and content within the communities. “As a group space or community grows in popularity and importance to the organization, WebCenter Spaces can easily scale from workgroup to department to enterprise-wide—and even securely extend to partners and customers outside the firewall,” Fellman says.
Get more information about Oracle WebCenter Spaces and other new productivity capabilities within Oracle WebCenter Suite 11g.
Podcast - Oracle WebCenter Suite 11g: Focus on Spaces and Social Computing Services
Webcast - Introduction to Oracle WebCenter Suite’s Spaces Component
White Paper: Oracle WebCenter Suite 11g: What’s New
Get Hands-on with Oracle WebCenter Spaces at Oracle OpenWorld
Search for Session ID S311709 in the Oracle OpenWorld content catalog.
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