The news on Oracle’s rebranding of all portal and content management products is an exciting and long overdue announcement. For most users, the segmentation of the technology landscape into portal, web content management, and content management has been of less importance than the need to get the right information in the right hands at the right time and expediting this process. Increasingly, users are more and more concerned about things such as presence, getting immediate response to a question, self service, and collaborating on ideas and strategies within the same context from where they’re getting information. The collaborative and social networking capabilities inherent in the WebCenter products reflect the new standards for user interaction.
Today’s world is increasingly focused on immediate access, immediate decisions, and immediate results. And with this recent rebranding and more importantly product alignment, it is our opinion at Fishbowl that Oracle is providing the industry’s most advanced solution to achieving these results – far more than any other competitor in the marketplace today.
In case you missed any of Oracle’s announcements regarding this new product rebranding, we have included some highlights below.
What’s out:
- The product name – Oracle Universal Content Management (UCM)
- Oracle Enterprise 2.0 product grouping
What’s in:
- The product name – WebCenter (see below for component names)
- WebCenter components grouped by functionality
Sites: New capability provided by FatWire acquisition, which will provide an all encompassing web experience management solution.
Portal: WebCenter’s core capability made up of these existing products:
- Oracle WebCenter Suite
- Oracle WebCenter Services
- Oracle WebLogic Portal
- Oracle WebCenter Interaction
Content: Content management will now be a part of the WebCenter family. Content is made up of the following existing products:
- Oracle Universal Content Management
- Oracle Universal Records Management
- Oracle Imaging and Process Management
Connect: New capability intended for making a more collaborative environment. Connect is made up of the following existing products:
- Oracle On Track Communication
- Oracle WebCenter Intelligent Collaboration
- Oracle WebCenter Real-Time Collaboration
For more information:
- Press release: http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/431137
- Webinar: What’s Next in User Engagement?
Please let us know your thoughts. We would be happy to answer any questions you may have regarding upgrades, integrations, and specific product capabilities.
