Oracle Web Center - WebCenter Services Capabilities

WebCenter Services Capabilities

Social Networking Services - Enables users to maximize productivity through collaboration.

• People Connection – Enables users to assemble their business networks like linked-in
• Discussions - Provides the ability to create and participate in threaded discussion. This is an embedded version of Forums provided by Jive Software.
• Announcements - Enables users to post, personalize, and manage announcements.
• Instant Messaging and Presence (IMP) - Provides the ability to observe the online presence status of other authenticated users (whether online, offline, busy, or idle) and to contact them.
• Blog - Enables blogging functionality within the context of an application. This feature comes from an embedded version of open source package jzWiki.
• Wiki - Self-service, community, oriented-content publishing and sharing. This is an embedded version of open source package jzWiki.

Shared Services - Provides features for both social networking and personal productivity.

• Documents - Provides content management and storage capabilities, including content upload, file and folder creation and management, file check out, versioning, and so on. This functionality requires licensing of a JCR (JSR-170) compliant document repository product.
• Links - Provides the ability to view, access, and associate related information; for example, you can link to a solution document from a discussion thread.
• Lists - Enables users to create, publish, and manage lists. (Available only in WebCenter Spaces)
• Page - Provides the ability to create and manage pages at run time.
• Tags - Provides the ability to assign one or more personally relevant keywords to a given page or document. This feature is similar to the del.cio.us website.
• Events -Provides group calendars, which users can use to schedule meetings, appointments, and any other type of team get-together. This feature requires deployment of a separate calendaring server, which may be Oracle Beehive or Microsoft Exchange. (Available only in WebCenter Spaces)

Personal Productivity Services - Focuses on the requirements of an individual, rather than a group.

• Mail - Provides integration with IMAP and SMTP mail servers to enable users to perform simple mail functions such as viewing, reading, creating, and deleting messages, creating messages with attachments, and replying to or forwarding existing messages.
• Notes - Provides the ability to "jot down" and retain quick bits of personally relevant information. (Available only in WebCenter Spaces)
• Recent Activities - Provides a summary view of recent changes to documents, discussions, and announcements.
• RSS - Provides the ability to publish content from WebCenter Web 2.0 Services as news feeds in RSS 2.0 and Atom 1.0 formats.
• Search - Provides the ability to search tags, services, an application, or an entire site. This makes use of a license limited version of Oracle's search product.
• Worklist - Provides a personal, at-a-glance view of business processes that require attention. These can include a request for document review and other types of business process that come directly from enterprise applications.