By now, most people have heard about the benefits of cloud computing. To summarize, the cloud promises more agility and scalability, with less cost and administration. However, for legacy customers using on-premise software, getting to the cloud isn’t always a simple and straightforward process. In fact, a lot of times confusion on deployment options, pricing, customer-managed versus vendor-managed, and security may delay cloud strategies. This is definitely the case for Oracle WebCenter Content customers who have a myriad of options to move their documents, images, and other enterprise content to the cloud.
Fortunately for Oracle WebCenter customers, Oracle offers the most complete set of cloud services spanning Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). With this set of cloud services, Oracle WebCenter Content customers have industry-leading options to deploy their WebCenter instances to the cloud. Here is a summary of those options:
Oracle Bare Metal Cloud Service (IaaS)
- Public cloud with granular control of security
- Computing, block storage, networking services
- Customer administered
- Bring WebCenter licenses
- Administration: High, user-owned
Oracle Compute Cloud Service (IaaS)
- Computing, block storage, networking services
- Bring WebCenter licenses
- Administration: High, user-owned
Oracle Java Cloud Service (PaaS)
- Full operating environment including WebLogic
- Complete control and customization
- Bring WebCenter licenses
- Administration: Moderate to low
Oracle WebCenter Portal Cloud Service (PaaS)
- WebCenter Portal in the Cloud
- Metered or non-metered licenses
- Administration: Moderate to low
You might be surprised that Oracle WebCenter Portal Cloud Service is listed above as one of the options to move Oracle WebCenter Content to, but it does present a viable solution. The user experience has always been one of the biggest complaints with WebCenter Content. Moving your content to the cloud and using WebCenter Portal Cloud to create intranets, extranets, composite applications, self-service portals and user experiences to access content could ensure a better user experience overall, and ensure more adoption going forward. It provides users a more secure and efficient means to consume information while being able to also interact with applications, processes, and other users. The added benefit is that it comes with Oracle WebCenter Content.
We will be discussing more about the options WebCenter Content and Portal customers have to move their on-premise instances to the Oracle Cloud at Collaborate 2018 during this session: Options and Considerations for Moving Oracle WebCenter Content & Portal to the Cloud, which takes place on Monday, April 23rd from 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM. In this session, Fishbowl’s Director of Solutions, Jerry Aber, will go into more detail about the Oracle Cloud options listed above, as well as what to expect from a pricing perspective. Come hear about considerations for hybrid cloud environments as well, and what that means from an Oracle Cloud architecture perspective.
For more information on all of Fishbowl’s activities at Collaborate 2018, please visit this page: https://fishbowlsolutions.com/about/news/collaborate/
