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Oracle Unveils Oracle(R) WebCenter Suite 11g

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    --  As part of today's Oracle(R) Fusion Middleware 11g launch, Oracle
        announced the general availability of Oracle WebCenter Suite 11g, a
        modern enterprise portal platform which will help increase productivity
        for business users and IT by bringing together people in organizations
        with the business processes and information they need to access.
    --  New and enhanced features which enable users to build and manage online
        business communities that help capture and strengthen relationships
        between people, processes, applications and information to increase
        insight and accelerate strategic decision-making include: Oracle
        WebCenter Spaces, Oracle WebCenter Services, Oracle Business Dictionary,
        Oracle Composer, Task Flows and pre-packaged integrations.
    --  Business users can create portal mashups that consolidate business
        applications, business intelligence, content, and social computing
        services on a single screen.  This puts relevant communities,
        information, and the tools to make key business decisions at users'
        fingertips.
    --  Developers now have a single, modern portal framework to help businesses
        adapt to changing markets by simplifying and accelerating the
        development, deployment, and management of customizable portals, Web
        sites, composite applications, and communities.

    --  To simplify implementation, Oracle WebCenter Suite 11g bundles leading
        enterprise content management, enterprise search, business process
        management, and presence capabilities. As a hot-pluggable component of
        Oracle Fusion Middleware, it extends and enhances the value of existing
        strategic investments through certified integrations with Oracle
        Database, Oracle Identity Management, Oracle Business Intelligence,
        Oracle Applications and several third-party applications.

New Capabilities for Business and IT Innovation

    --  Oracle WebCenter Suite 11g delivers significant new functionality:
    --  Oracle WebCenter Spaces is a personal and team work-environment for
        business users to create formal and ad hoc Web-based communities to
        simplify or accelerate completion of projects or business processes. 
        Oracle WebCenter Spaces is pre-integrated with Microsoft Office, and
        built to scale out from departments to the enterprise;
    --  Oracle WebCenter Services provide the following new social computing
        services: tagging, linking, recent activity, RSS, ratings, people
        connections, and activity graphs which enable users to integrate these
        technologies with their enterprise applications and collaborate with
        others;
    --  Oracle Business Dictionary is a role-specific library of enterprise
        applications, business intelligence, business processes, enterprise
        content and information that IT and business users can easily combine,
        edit, share and customize to create executive dashboards that enable
        them to drive innovation;
    --  Oracle Composer is an extensible and easy-to-use browser-based tool to
        enable end-users to customize portals and composite applications with
        social computing services.  Using Common Metadata Management,
        personalized settings are stored as a layer on top of the base
        application, which speeds the work of IT and insulates users from
        updates and patches regardless of their customizations;
    --  Task Flows offer more than 50 pre-built components that can be
        individually exposed as portlets or customized to deliver a full range
        of user experiences enabling developers to quickly reuse and combine
        individual portlets into complex yet flexible portals and applications;
    --  Pre-Packaged Integrations with a variety of content management products
        and business applications including Oracle's Siebel CRM,
        Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise, the Oracle E-Business Suite, EMC
        Documentum, IBM Filenet, and Microsoft Sharepoint simplify deployment.

    --  Oracle WebCenter Suite is also integrated with Oracle Enterprise Manager
        providing comprehensive functionality to deploy enterprise portals, as
        well as monitor and manage them with mission-critical performance,
        scalability, and reliability.

Supporting Quotes

    --  "By enabling users to launch online business communities that use a
        full range of social computing services and pre-integrated enterprise
        resources, Oracle WebCenter Suite 11g is a comprehensive and
        customizable portal suite that improves business users' ability to
        make strategic decisions and complete daily tasks," said Rahul
        Patel, vice president, Oracle Fusion Middleware.  "For developers,
        Oracle WebCenter Suite 11g provides a modern portal framework which
        helps accelerate delivery of portals and Web sites, as well as composite
        and transactional applications combined with ready-to-use Enterprise 2.0
        capabilities that drive agile business innovation."

    --  "Oracle WebCenter Suite 11g offers so many pre-packaged components
        that put power in the hands of the business user instead of requiring
        the IT department to develop customized applications," said
        Jennifer Briscoe, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Collect
        America.  "The ability to create composite applications coupled
        with the productivity gains of embedding communities directly into any
        type of application enables our business users to effect positive change
        for the business."

Supporting Resources

    --  Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g
    --  Oracle WebCenter Suite 11g
    --  Oracle WebCenter Suite 11g Datasheet
    --  Oracle WebCenter Suite 11g Whitepaper

    --  Download Oracle Software - Terms, conditions and restrictions apply.

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