5 Ideas: Beehive

The buzz on Oracle Beehive, including what's changed with the release of version 1.5.

“Oracle Beehive makes available all of the collaborative functionality that people need in a business. For example, it provides immediate accessibility for meeting scheduling, task assignments, and document sharing, and of course e-mail, voice mail, and real-time communications such as instant messaging and Web conferencing. Oracle is putting all those together on an enterprise-class server—enterprise-class not only in terms of scalability and availability but particularly in terms of security and compliance. That's a new approach, and it’s the reason we built the product from the ground up, to really emphasize security and compliance.”—Terry Olkin, Oracle's chief architect and senior vice president of collaboration technologies

“Companies have two things on their mind: saving money immediately and positioning themselves for the recovery, to work smarter and work better. There aren't many things you can do to in technology to hit those hard simultaneously, but collaboration is one of those... Version 1.5 is a big deal for Beehive. Prior to 1.5, the Beehive platform was available, the email and messaging components were available, the conferencing and Synchronous and presence and instant messaging components were available, but we had not yet made available are core interface for teams to work together.”—David Gilmour, Oracle's senior vice president of collaboration technologies

“Oracle Beehive is the first collaboration system that offers a unified user experience and fully leverages Oracle’s highly scalable, secure and integrated technology framework. Its comprehensive support of open industry standards and coexistence with popular legacy collaboration tools make it an ideal solution for today. And Oracle Beehive’s integrated, flexible and extensible design will make it an enabler of innovation for modern business leaders of the twenty-first century.”—Paul Gillin, author of “Enterprise Collaboration
for the Twenty-first Century” (pdf)

“Using Oracle Beehive, users can easily access capabilities, such as a team workspace or web conferencing, directly within tools that are already part of the user environment. By leveraging familiar tools users know best, Oracle Beehive not only avoids retraining costs but also helps speed user adoption and avoids the business and technical issues of tool proliferation.”—From “Six Ways A Unified Collaboration System Reduces IT Costs” (pdf)

“We really see people using Oracle Beehive when they have applications that require an increased level of security and compliance —the high-level auditing, the high-level information protection — as well as when people are trying to take collaborative capabilities and put them into a specialized business process, like, for example a call center, where I want people to be able to access when they're dealing with a problem in real time -- instant messaging, or email or discussion threads.”—Greg Crider, Oracle's senior director of product marketing at Oracle