Creating Corporate Social Networks the Oracle WebCenter way
In today's hyper-competitive markets, information users demand more interactive and collaborative way to access information. Due to the influence of Web 2.0 technologies like wikis, blogs, tagging, RSS, mash-ups, discussions and social networking, future web applications will have to cater to the needs of the user who want to quickly access and connect with like-minded people or experts, manage content that is spread all over the enterprise, or customize and personalize applications according to his taste and usage.
In today's hyper-competitive markets, information users demand more interactive and collaborative way to access information. Due to the influence of Web 2.0 technologies like wikis, blogs, tagging, RSS, mash-ups, discussions and social networking, future web applications will have to cater to the needs of the user who want to quickly access and connect with like-minded people or experts, manage content that is spread all over the enterprise, or customize and personalize applications according to his taste and usage.
Before the launch of Oracle Webcenter, building an application mash-up was not only tedious but also involved a humongous development effort. Oracle Webcenter provides a complete and exhaustive solution for all kinds of users; be it the application developer or the business user. At the core of Oracle Webcenter lies a standards based, open and declarative framework. This enables development of rich internet applications with Web 2.0 based technologies. The key components of Oracle Webcenter are as follows:
Webcenter Framework: It provides a single integrated framework for delivery of portals, transactional applications, websites, composite applications, social networks and business communities. It augments the JSF (Java Server Faces) environment by providing additional integration and run-time customization options. It provides a platform to integrate with portal products like portlets, customization, personalization, and integration directly into the JSF environment.
Webcenter Social Computing Services: Oracle Webcenter Suite provides a comprehensive set of Social Computing Services. These can be integrated directly into the web application according to the need of the user. These are also available as customization components. They are available as ready-to-use taskflows or portlets which can be embedded in a web-page.
Webcenter Composer and Business Dictionary: Portals and web applications generally require change at a very fast pace than most regular applications. Oracle Composer facilitates the business user to change the application using an easy-to-use interface. All the customizations can be done during runtime and in the browser itself. The role-based business dictionary provides seamless unification of corporate information assets with enterprise portals.
WebCenter Spaces: It is an out-of-the-box webcenter application that enables formal and informal communities within and across enterprises. It brings the latest technologies in terms of social networking, communication, collaboration and personal productivity with no or little development effort. Oracle Webcenter Spaces provides three different capabilities within the same application viz. Business Role Pages, Private Spaces and Group Spaces.
Oracle Webcenter Suite is an excellent offering from Oracle. It provides you the flexibility of an open standards based framework along with the integrated environment for the complete development life cycle of the Web 2.0 based applications. Since Oracle Webcenter is a core component of the Oracle Fusion Middleware, applications built with Oracle Webcenter will be able to seamlessly integrate with both current and future applications from Oracle.
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