WCI 10gR3 overview
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The document discusses Oracle's WebCenter Interaction 10gR3 product. Some key points include: WebCenter Interaction was previously known as AquaLogic Interaction Portal; it is now part of Oracle's WebCenter Suite and will continue to receive major and minor releases; and the latest release, 10gR3, features improvements to the user interface, social capabilities, and integration with other Oracle products.
WCI 10gR3 overview
- 1. <Insert Picture Here> WebCenter Interaction 10gR3 Overview Brian C. Harrison Product Management WebCenter Interaction and Related Products
- 2. Summary of Key Points • AquaLogic Interaction portal has been renamed WebCenter Interaction (WCI) • WCI will continue to have significant new releases with no forced migration: Latest Release: 10gR3 (6.5 MP2) • The ALUI products are now part of the Oracle WebCenter Suite and WebCenter Services; and a key part of Oracle’s R&D investment & innovation in portals and Enterprise 2.0 • Consider WebCenter Services as an option for pre-integrated, value- adding enhancements to your portal deployments • Leverage Product Management for guidance and give us your feedback
- 3. Where Does WebCenter Interaction Fit? • Fully supported by Oracle Engineering with major and minor releases going forward • Goal: maintain and grow the significant installed base • Individual upgrades for ALUI products available for pre-acquisition existing customers • Backward compatible platform support for existing ALUI customers including fully certified .NET support • Now part of WebCenter Suite; license migration available but not required • 2009/2010 focus on new innovations and interoperability with other Oracle components
- 4. ALUI Products Now Part of Oracle WebCenter Suite and WebCenter Services Portals Composite Social Communities Applications Applications WebCenter Interaction WebCenter WebCenter Services + SES Ensemble WebCenter AquaLogic Interaction UCM/WCM Services Pages Pathways Ensemble WebCenter Analytics WebCenter Collaboration Publisher .NET App Collaboration Search Analytics Accelerator, SharePoint Console WCI Search + Web Services Assembly SES Cross-platform development Part of WebCenter Suite Part of WebCenter Services Legacy Enterprise RSS Content Profile Applications Security Repositories Attributes
- 5. Where WCI is today
- 6. Key Concepts WebCenter Interaction 10gR3 A complete update of the product’s end user experience leveraging adaptive layouts, one-click page creation, drag-and-drop editing and social computing capabilities. WebCenter Collaboration 10gR3 Full immersion of the end user in the collaborative experience. Key capabilities include enhanced integration with Microsoft Office, RSS notifications and drag-and-drop layout editing. WebCenter Analytics 10gR3 Improved access to analytics data through WS-SOAP API and improved filtering. Additionally, Analytics 10gR3 supports load balancing and clustering for improved performance and zero downtime.
- 7. WCI 10gR3 Highlights • Social Interaction Framework • Complete UI Refresh • Adaptive Layouts • Usability Enhancements • RSS Everywhere • Friendly URL’s • Support for New Standards & Platforms • Search Enhancements
- 8. Social Interaction Framework Employee Profile Pages Status Updates Personal Tag Clouds Activity Streams
- 9. Social Interaction Framework Activity Stream Automatically Track Status Changes Subscribe via RSS REST API
- 10. UI Refresh Out-of-the-box UI easy to restyle with CSS Tableless layout using DIVs Elimination of pop-up windows Support for the “classic” UI
- 11. Adaptive Layouts The following pages/areas are configurable via XML & XHTML layouts Community Pages My Pages Knowledge Directory Search Results User Profile Pages Layouts leverage adaptive tags that can be reused throughout the page Experience definition rules
- 12. Usability Enhancements • One click page creation • One-click community subscribe / unsubscribe • Drag & Drop Layout Editor
- 13. Friendly URLs • Profiles • Knowledge Directory • My Pages • Communities
- 14. Search Enhancements Refreshed Search UI Simplified search results Enhanced filtering capabilities
- 15. RSS Everywhere RSS on every community, page and object RSS portlet to display RSS feeds Ability to crawl RSS feeds into the knowledge directory RSS supports authentication credentials Personal RSS feeds for every user
- 16. New Standards & Platforms • Operating Systems Databases • Windows Server 2003 SP2, SP1 Micrsosoft SQL Server 2005 (32 and 64 • RedHat Enterprise Linux 4.0 (x86) bit) SP1 & SP2 • SuSE Enterprise Linux 9 (x86) Oracle 9i (9.2.0.7) • Solaris 9, 10 (SPARC) • IBM AIX 5.3 (POWER) Oracle 10g R2 including RAC • HP-UX 11i V3 (Itanium) IBM DB2 UDB 9.5 • Application Servers Browsers • IIS 6.0, .NET Framework 2.0 Microsoft Internet Explorer: 6.0, 6.0 • Tomcat 6.0.14 w/ JDK 1.5.0 SP1, 6.0 SP2, 7.0 • Weblogic Server 9.2 MP2 Netscape: 8 and 7.2 • Weblogic Server 10.0 Safari: 3.0 (Mac and Windows) • IBM Websphere 6.1 Firefox: 3.0, 2.0
- 17. ALI Collaboration 4.5 Highlights • Improved notifications- AquaLogic Notification Service • Tag documents in collaboration • Custom document properties • Drag and drop layout editing • Desktop integration via Microsoft Office Ribbon
- 18. AquaLogic Notification Service Track feeds within and outside of the portal • Notification engine for ALI and Activity Services • Item level RSS feeds • Personal RSS feeds • RSS feed security ALNS • Summary/Immediate email New blog • API for custom apps post • Multi-channel delivery (IM, RSS, Document edit Email) Pages • Powers ActivityFeed Collab “Tagged” Pathways
- 20. Custom Document Properties Mandatory properties by project Easily add new properties Improved content publishing
- 22. Desktop Integration Office 2007 Ribbon Plug-in
- 23. WebCenter Console for SharePoint • Increase employee productivity with a single point of access to SharePoint resources dispersed throughout the enterprise • Unified search across multiple SharePoint sites and sub sites • Click through to Windows SharePoint Services
- 24. Search and SharePoint Items Portlets
- 25. Oracle WebCenter Interaction 10gR3 Now Available • Nov. 13 2008 GA; think of it as ALI 6.5 MP2 • Oracle Branded Release • No More License Checks • Support for WebLogic Server 10gR3 (10.3) and JDK 1.6 • Certified interoperability with WebCenter Services 10gR3 and Universal Content Management* • Wikis, blogs, other Web 2.0 services • Upgrade from ALI 6.x, 5.x • Several new features including: • Expanded experience definition capabilities that allow experience rules based on browser HTTP header strings. • Enhancements to adaptive layouts including: adaptive-layout based search results, out-of-the-box iPhone adaptive layout and global overrides for adaptive layouts * UCM interoperability via certification of UCM WSRP portlets
- 26. WCI Value Prop with WebCenter Services
- 27. WCI Consuming WebCenter Services Composite Social Portals Communities Applications Applications Discussions Announcement Ensemble IM and Presence Mail Interaction Management Document Library Worklist Notifications Portlets Tagging Pagelets Collab Analytics Search Web Services Assembly Wikis WS and /or Java APIs Blogs Cross-platform development Discussions Announcements UCM IM and Presence Legacy Enterprise RSS Content Profile Applications Security Repositories Attributes
- 28. Wikis, Blogs and Discussions User-generated Content and Collaboration Key Features Integration Options Wikis • ultiple domains; Search M • eb service W • ersioning; Trackbacks V • SR 168 portlets J • ccess metrics; Macros A • Frame i • SS; Attachments R • TTP H Blogs • ermalinks; Versioning P • eb service W • earch; Attachments S • SR 168 portlets J • SS R • Frame i • TTP H Discussions • upports forums, topics, posts S • SR 168 portlets J • rganize by favourites, popularity O • ultiple Business M • SS R Dictionary Components • eb-based administration W
- 29. WebCenter Services Mashups with Oracle WebCenter Ensemble • Mashup HTTP-based services to create or extend the value of applications • Build libraries of reusable widgets, UI components, and programmable functions • Centralize authentications, provisioning, analytics for Web apps • New features as part of WebCenter Services 10gR3 • idget Production for WebCenter Interaction and Universal Content Management W – • eb Injection – Enables web page alteration via Ensemble’s runtime proxy; W alterations can include insertion of widgets, changing styles, removing content etc. • avaScript Widgets – Insert a portlet into any page via JavaScript and integrate J with the portlet’s authentication mechanism. • ightweight Clipping – Render any page or sub-section of a page as a widget. L • EST-based extensibility – APIs for resource and widget introspection (including R CRUD operations), widget discovery, and credential management. • nhanced federated identity – improved SPNEGO integration for primary and E resource authentication.
- 30. WebCenter Services Portal Intelligence with WebCenter Analytics • Key Capabilities • Track all portal activity • Filter by user, group, IP address • Real time data capture & reporting • Packaged portlet templates • API for analytics-driven applications • Benefits • Identify successful applications and communities • Locate & remove stale content • Prevent sprawl • Improved governance • Better measure ROI
- 31. <Insert Picture Here> Q&A Brian C. Harrison Principal Product Manager WebCenter Interaction & WebCenter Services Mail:brian.harrison@oracle.com Blog: http://blogs.oracle.com/WCI