Oracle has released WebCenter Suite 11g PS3 and has published a great webinar that talks about their portal strategy. The centerpiece of that is Continue and Converge, where you can continue to use and leverage your existing BEA portal product while they take the best of WebLogic Portal and AquaLogic User Interaction and move those capabilities into WebCenter. This strategy mimics what Oracle is doing with EBusiness, PeopleSoft, etc. as they move towards Fusion Apps; the improvements in WebCenter are encouraging existing customers to actively begin their migration from their existing BEA or Oracle portals.
Some highlights of the webinar that I think are worth mentioning:
- Content management is very well integrated with the product. Wikis and blogs are now under content management control, workflow and revision control are accessible directly from the workspace
- Business mashup capability is provided by the re-factored BEA Ensemble product
- Business Dictionary support allows the business users and IT developers to collaborate on portal content
- WebLogic Portal’s UUP (Universal User Profile) capability is now part of WebCenter
- A limited use Oracle SES (Secure Enterprise Search) is included with Oracle WebCenter Suite
Click here to register for the the webinar. It’s an on-demand webinar, so once you’ve registered you can view it immediately. It lasts approximately 54 minutes and I found it useful.
If you’re interested in learning more about the AviTrust WebCenter demo that is shown, it is built on WebCenter Portal Framework. For the more adventurous, the demo is available as a download from Oracle’s site. Note that it runs under Oracle’s Virtual Box using Oracle Enterprise Linux. Other than the size of the downloads (12Gb) getting it up and running isn’t terribly difficult. For more information, follow this link.
Oracle has just recently released an AviTrust demo built on WebCenter Spaces and the Virtual Box for that, can be downloaded from here.
Thanks to Christina Kolotouros from Oracle for correcting me about the original demo and providing the link for the new demo.
Hi Chris,
Just want to let you know the link to the VirtualBox you posted points to the WebCenter Portal Framework demo, not the Spaces demo. We just posted the WC Spaces VirtualBox yesterday at http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/webcenter/downloads/owcs-spaces-vbox-352174.html
Christina,
That’s good to know. I’ll double check, but the webinar indicates that AviTrust is built on WebCenter Spaces, so perhaps I misunderstood something.
There is an AviTrust demo for WC Spaces and for WC Portal Framework, each showing different scenarios. We also have a VirtualBox VM for each. The VM behind your link is for WC Portal Framework.
Christina, I appreciate the info. I’ll go ahead and correct the original post.