Oracle announced the general availability of Oracle WebCenter Suite, a component of Oracle Fusion Middleware.

Demonstrating its commitment to existing BEA customers, Oracle is also announcing the availability of Oracle WebLogic Portal 10g Release 3 and its immediate inclusion as part of Oracle WebCenter Suite. The new release adds several enhancements to further customers’ competitive advantage and provides support for the newly released Oracle WebLogic Server 10g Release 3.

Oracle WebCenter Suite is the latest in a series of products that combine technology from Oracle Fusion Middleware and BEA Systems. These products illustrate the rapid progress that Oracle is making in combining market-leading technologies from the two companies into a unified product offering.

A complete, open and manageable user interaction and portal platform, Oracle WebCenter Suite enables organizations to securely deliver extranet and intranet portals along with composite applications that integrate processes, content, business intelligence, and enterprise application information in a single user interface.

WebCenter Suite also enables delivery of a broad range of Enterprise 2.0 services, such as wikis, blogs, discussion forums, secure search, and RSS feeds, through these portals and communities.

Oracle WebCenter Suite consists of:

Oracle WebCenter Framework – a JavaServer Faces framework to accelerate development and deployment of rich, context-driven composite applications,

Oracle WebCenter Services – a comprehensive range of Enterprise 2.0, content and communication services – wikis, blogs, voice, community discussion - that can be embedded directly into existing portals and applications to deliver Web 2.0 capabilities within the context of integrated user interactions through portals and applications,

Oracle WebCenter Interaction – provides open, extensible, and scalable social computing capabilities for delivering team-based community spaces for heterogeneous environments,

Oracle WebLogic Portal – provides a massively scalable, extranet and eCommerce platform to deliver a targeted user experience based on past site interactions and a dynamic user profile leveraging content from any JCR 1.0 compliant repository,

Oracle WebCenter Anywhere - a set of wireless and desktop services that enable users to connect with Oracle WebCenter Suite applications from any connected device, including popular desktop and mobile applications.

Today’s announcement supports Oracle’s strategy of delivering complete, integrated and end-to-end product suites on an open, standards-based middleware and database architecture. Oracle’s approach helps customers to simplify computing environments, lower cost and risk, and provides greater choice and flexibility.

Jaya Sinha /ITvoir Network