Oracle WebCenter is Oracle's enterprise content management platform consisting of 3 modules: WebCenter Content, WebCenter Sites and WebCenter Portal. This platform is the foundation to help customers meet regulatory requirements to minimize risks and deliver better business outcomes. Oracle WebCenter can be deployed on-premises in perpetual license option as well as on OCI cloud on subscription license, such as license included option.
Key Modules of Oracle WebCenter Oracle WebCenter consists of three core modules that cater to different aspects of enterprise content management:
1. Oracle WebCenter Content Oracle WebCenter Content delivers an end-to-end solution for intelligent document and process automation management. With features that include advanced image capture, form recognition, and data extraction, this module is essential for organizations looking to automate and optimize their content management processes.
Key Features
Automated Image Capture and Data Extraction: Enhance efficiency through intelligent document scanning, character recognition, and structured data extraction.
Complete Lifecycle Management: Manage the entire lifecycle of digital content, including creation, retention, archiving, and destruction.
Seamless Integration:
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for easy storage and retrieval.
Oracle APEX to create and manage custom content applications.
REST APIs for Customization and Extension
Oracle WebCenter provides powerful REST APIs that allow organizations to customize the platform to meet specific business needs. These APIs enable seamless integration with external applications, facilitating custom workflows and process automation. With extensive documentation and support, the REST APIs promote rapid development while ensuring secure and scalable performance. WebCenter Content is designed for organizations seeking to reduce costs and complexities in document-heavy workflows while maintaining secure access and governance compliance.
Oracle WebCenter contains a set of components for building rich web applications, portals, and team collaboration and social sites. Oracle WebCenter is targeted at enterprise and larger accounts that have significant content management requirements and the need to deliver that information with internal or external portals, customer-facing websites or within integrated business applications. Oracle has made a particular effort to integrate WebCenter into its leading business applications such as E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft and JD Edwards so that content can be centrally managed in one location and shared across multiple applications. For the development community and advanced business users, WebCenter provides a development environment that includes WebCenter Framework and WebCenter Services, along with an out-of-the-box application for team collaboration and enterprise social networking. According to Oracle,[1] this is the strategic portal product, eventually replacing Oracle Portal as well as the portal products acquired from BEA.
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 product stack
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There are three major products in the WebCenter product stack.[2]
The base WebCenter Framework allows a user to embed portlets, ADF Taskflows and Pages, content, and customizable components in an Oracle ADF application. All Framework pieces are integrated into the Oracle JDeveloper IDE, providing access to these resources.
WebCenter Services are a set of independently deployable collaboration services. It incorporates Web 2.0 components such as content, collaboration, and communication services – the full list is provided below. WebCenter Services includes Oracle ADF user interface components (called Taskflows) that can be embedded directly into ADF applications. In addition, APIs can be utilized to create custom UIs and to integrate some of these services into non-ADF applications.
Finally, WebCenter Spaces is a closed source application built on WebCenter Framework and Services that offers a prebuilt project collaboration solution. It can be compared with solutions like Microsoft SharePoint and Atlassian Confluence. There are limited mechanisms to extend this application.
Note that there is a product called WebCenter Interaction which is not built on the core WebCenter stack – it is the former Plumtree portal product. Also, all Oracle portal products at Oracle are included in the WebCenter Suite, which is an umbrella of products. Products can be included in the suite regardless of whether they are built on the ADF based WebCenter Framework.
WebCenter comprises furthermore several editions, among others WebCenter Suite Plus, WebCenter Portal, WebCenter Content, WebCenter Sites, WebCenter Sites Satellite Server (a distributed caching mechanism which stores and assembles "pagelets," or elements of output),[3] WebCenter Universal Content Management. Seven WebCenter Adapters and one WCE Management are available.[4]
WebCenter services capabilities
Social Networking Services - Enables users to maximize productivity through collaboration.[citation needed]
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.[5]
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.
Release of WebCenter 11g R1 Patch Set 5 (PS5)
On 22 February 2012 Oracle released WebCenter 11g Release 1 Patch Set 5.[6] It includes many bug fixes in addition to several new enhancements. This patch set is mainly targeted at releasing customer bug fixes.
Release of WebCenter 11g R1 Patch Set 3 (PS3)
In January 2011 Oracle released WebCenter 11g Release 1 Patch Set 3. As the converged portal platform, this is a major new release with many features integrated from previously acquired portal products, including a greatly improved and flexible portal framework, improved GUI, personalization server, brand new navigation model, support for hierarchical pages and spaces, JSR 286, improved performance, and more.[citation needed]
WebCenter Framework and Services lacks support for these notable technologies:
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