Oracle OpenWorld San Francisco 2004 
Oracle OpenWorld San Francisco 2004 was a great event and many thanks to
            the customers who attended.  In response to numerous requests, we have made the
            whitepapers and presentations developed by the Oracle Portal product team available from
            the Oracle Portal OTN page: see below.  Presentations from sessions not listed below
            can be accessed from the Oracle OpenWorld website: https://www.openworld2004.com/sf/scheduler/public.jsp
            
          
        
        

          

            
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Papers
          
          

            

            
An Overview of
            Enterprise Portals: Today and Tomorrow (1431)

            Enterprise portals are becoming the single entry point to business applications,
            content, collaborative tools, and Web sites. Oracle Application Server 10g lets users
            employ one portal framework to manage a company's Web presence. This presentation
            discusses new features that can help you develop and deploy secure, scalable enterprise
            portals and also explores strategies for success and discusses enterprise portal trends. 
          
          

            

            
How to Design and
            Build Compelling Portal Interfaces (1336)

            Sometimes all that stands between a pretty good and a perfect portal page are few tips and
            tricks to fine tune presentation and simplify content management. This white paper
            delivers tips for perfecting item alignment and display and making self-service publishing
            even easier for your portal users. You will also find out how to take full control over
            the HTML used to publish items with PL/SQL associated funtions. Find a simple trick to add
            and edit items on a page without taking the page into edit mode, and finally learn how to
            use Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) in your portal page. Access the Supporting
            Presentation.
          
          

            

            
How to Create
            Collaborative Communities Within Your Portal (1334)

            Setting up a team or community portal is a great way of getting knowledge workers of all
            types working together and communicating. In this white paper, you will learn how to take
            advantage of some of the collaborative tools and features (including surveys, discussion
            forums, and news) built into Oracle Portal. You learn how to implement best practices and
            strategies for building a community portal. Finally, you learn how to leverage other
            collaborative solutions, including Oracle Collaboration Suite, MS Exchange, and Lotus
            Notes. Access the Supporting
            Presentation.
          
          

            

            
How to
            Best Leverage J2EE, Struts, and ADF in Your Portal (1338) 

            Portlets are the key building blocks of enterprise portals. Developers of all levels need
            to leverage the latest Web technologies into their portal. In this white paper, you will
            discover how to use declarative, wizard-based tools to integrate data from Web pages, JDBC
            databases, XML, or even Web service data sources. You learn how simple it is to build
            J2EE-based portlets with the Java Portlet Wizard and how to leverage the wizard to
            generate standards-based (JSR-168) portlets, which can then be deployed to any vendor's
            JSR-168 container. You will understand the powerful capabilities of WSRP and view other
            vendors' portlets running on Oracle Portal how to portletize a Struts or ADF application
            without changing the business logic or affecting the stand-alone application. Access the Supporting
            Presentation.
          
          

            

            
How to
            Integrate Enterprise Applications into Your Portal (1335) 

            Portals are a key component of any business process management (BPM), enterprise
            application integration (EAI), and business activity monitoring (BAM) initiative,
            representing the easiest way to give people intelligent, relevant, personalized
            information. This white paper will how Oracle Portal is the solution to your enterprise
            application integration (EAI) problems and demonstrates Oracle Portal integration with
            Oracle E-Business Suite and SAP. BPEL is fast becoming the de facto standard for business
            process orchestration. The white paper also describes how portals can be the solution for
            aggregating personalized business dashboards for BPEL modeled processes and activity
            monitoring, visualizing worklists, alerts/notifications, and key performance indicators.
            Prerequisite: general knowledge of Oracle Portal and portal standards (WSRP, JSR 168) and
            basic understanding of EAI, BPM, BAM, and the BPEL standard.  Access the Supporting
            Presentation.
          
          

            

            
Creating a
            Company Portal Instantly with Oracle Application Server Standard Edition One (1375) 

            Oracle Application Server Standard Edition One is a standards-based, easy-to-use,
            affordable solution for small/medium businesses or departments.  It provides a
            complete infrastructure for Web-based applications including an out-of-the-box portal
            solution for publishing and sharing content. The solution features pre-generated pages, a
            compelling in-place content and page editing experience, simple customization and branding
            capabilities and easy to use dialogs and menus for styling and user management. This
            presentation showcases the main features by building, populating and securing a company
            portal from start to finish in a just minutes!
          
          

            

            
How to Effectively
            Size Hardware for Your Portal Implementation (1337)

            As with any Web portal, the server and database capacity needed to deploy a portal built
            with Oracle Portal depends largely on the number of anticipated user requests for a given
            page. Displaying a single page to a user may require many separate transactions, from
            verifying whether the user has permission to view the page to loading the images that
            appear on the page, to calling a style sheet that contains formatting information for the
            page. This white paper explains the overall capacity-planning methodologies available for
            Oracle Portal. It also explains the calculations used to obtain metrics for estimating and
            sizing a portal.  Access the Supporting
            Presentation.
          
          

            

            
How to
            Effectively Measure and Monitor Activity in Your Portal Environment (1333)

            Understanding how your portal is being used is critical for tuning performance, evolving
            content, and maximizing the user experience. This white paper shows how a portal
            administrator can take advantage of Oracle Enterprise Manager features such as
            collections, automatic notifications, historical metric reports, application modeling, and
            application performance monitoring. The paper will also describe how business users can
            gain powerful insights into visitor interaction and usage behavior via site analytics.
              Access the Supporting
            Presentation.