Oracle Announces General Availability of Oracle® WebCenter Suite
New Offering Combines Oracle and BEA Systems Technology to Extend Enterprise 2.0 and Portal Leadership
Oracle OpenWorld, San Francisco – September 23, 2008
News Facts
Helping organizations increase productivity and improve user interaction with Enterprise 2.0-enabled portals, composite, and web applications, Oracle today announced the general availability of Oracle WebCenter Suite, a component of Oracle Fusion Middleware.
Demonstrating its commitment to existing BEA customers, Oracle is also announcing the availability of Oracle WebLogic Portal 10g Release 3 and its immediate inclusion as part of Oracle WebCenter Suite. The new release adds several enhancements to further customers’ competitive advantage and provides support for the newly released Oracle WebLogic Server 10g Release 3.
Oracle WebCenter Suite is the latest in a series of products that combine technology from Oracle Fusion Middleware and BEA Systems. These products illustrate the rapid progress that Oracle is making in combining market-leading technologies from the two companies into a unified product offering.
A complete, open and manageable user interaction and portal platform, Oracle WebCenter Suite enables organizations to securely deliver extranet and intranet portals along with composite applications that integrate processes, content, business intelligence, and enterprise application information in a single user interface. WebCenter Suite also enables delivery of a broad range of Enterprise 2.0 services, such as wikis, blogs, discussion forums, secure search, and RSS feeds, through these portals and communities.
Oracle WebCenter Suite consists of:
Oracle WebCenter Framework – a JavaServer Faces framework to accelerate development and deployment of rich, context-driven composite applications;
Oracle WebCenter Services – a comprehensive range of Enterprise 2.0, content and communication services – wikis, blogs, voice, community discussion - that can be embedded directly into existing portals and applications to deliver Web 2.0 capabilities within the context of integrated user interactions through portals and applications;
Oracle WebCenter Interaction (formerly BEA AquaLogic User Interaction) – provides open, extensible, and scalable social computing capabilities for delivering team-based community spaces for heterogeneous environments;
Oracle WebLogic Portal – provides a massively scalable, extranet and eCommerce platform to deliver a targeted user experience based on past site interactions and a dynamic user profile leveraging content from any JCR 1.0 compliant repository;
Oracle WebCenter Anywhere - a set of wireless and desktop services that enable users to connect with Oracle WebCenter Suite applications from any connected device, including popular desktop and mobile applications.
Today’s announcement supports Oracle’s strategy of delivering complete, integrated and end-to-end product suites on an open, standards-based middleware and database architecture. Oracle’s approach helps customers to simplify computing environments, lower cost and risk, and provides greater choice and flexibility.
Additional Details and Features
Oracle WebCenter Suite and Oracle WebLogic Portal 10g Release 3 are certified with Oracle Universal Content Management to help enterprises streamline and improve management of the rapidly expanding stream of content created with Enterprise 2.0 applications and portals.
Oracle WebLogic Portal 10g Release 3 is also certified with WebCenter Services enabling WebLogic Portal customers to deploy Enterprise 2.0 capabilities within their portals.
For global organizations, Oracle WebCenter Suite supports more than 28 languages and double-byte character sets.
In response to the growing popularity of Apple’s mobile device, Oracle WebCenter Suite includes adaptive layouts for optimizing user interface delivery on the Apple iPhone.
Availability and Support
Oracle WebCenter Suite, including Oracle WebLogic Portal 10g Release 3, is immediately available.
Oracle Customer Services provides complete coverage of Oracle WebCenter Suite and Oracle WebLogic Portal 10g Release 3 with the world's leading portfolio of IT lifecycle-based service and support offerings. Oracle Customer Services is focused on helping customers maximize their success with Oracle solutions while lowering the total cost of ownership through continued advances in providing personalized, proactive support and knowledge management capabilities.
Supporting Quote
“By bringing together the best user interaction and portal technologies from Oracle and BEA, Oracle WebCenter Suite offers the most complete, open and integrated Enterprise 2.0 solution that allows organizations to leverage existing IT investments while providing users with a better, more personalized experience,” said Vince Casarez, vice president, Product Management, Oracle.
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