Oracle WebLogic Portal

 

Oracle WebLogic Portal, formerly BEA WebLogic Portal, is the best-of-breed portal framework for creating highly interactive composite applications in a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) environment with a powerful, integrated set of design-time tools for Java developers and strong support for standards. 

 

Oracle WebLogic Portal's framework provides reliable, performant, and personalized application delivery that engages customers, keeps infrastructure costs down, delivers solutions rapidly, and standardizes application architecture. The integrated development environment provided by WebLogic Portal includes a rich, graphical environment for developing portal-based solutions. Web-based configuration tools, content publication wizards, and other run-time tools enable distributed portal management. Once built, your portals can be readily adapted when your business needs change, all at significantly lower costs. Thanks to its unified portal framework, simplified portal lifecycle mangement, and modular portal business services and portal extensions, Oracle WebLogic Portal simplifies, personalizes, and lowers the cost of customer, partner, and employee access to information, applications, and business processes.

 

The Oracle Weblogic11g Application Server product line is the industry's most comprehensive Java platform for developing, deploying, and integrating enterprise applications. It provides the foundation for application grid architecture, enabling enterprises to outperform their competitors while minimizing operational costs.

 

Java

 

Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE) is the single best platform for the development of desktop, server and high-end embedded devices, and it is the most versatile runtime for Java as well as many other languages.

 

Java Platform, Micro Edition (Java ME) is the best chosen software for resource-constrained embedded devices. It has seen widespread deployment across mobile handsets and digital television devices.

 

Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) is the industry standard for delivering secure, robust, scalable, multi-platform applications and services across the enterprise, from server and desktop applications to wireless and wireline applications.

 

Service-Oriented Architectures

 

Oracle Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) Suite is a comprehensive, hot-pluggable software suite to build, deploy and manage SOAs. The components of the suite benefit from common capabilities including consistent tooling, a single deployment and management model, end-to-end security and unified metadata management.

 

This easy-to-use, re-use focused, unified application development tooling and end-to-end lifecycle management support further reduces development and maintenance cost and complexity. Its hot-pluggable architecture helps businesses lower upfront costs by allowing maximum re-use of existing IT investments and assets, regardless of the environment (OS, application server, etc.) they run in, or the technology they were built upon.

 

Rapid adoption of SOA is resulting in extensive service enabling of IT systems. The only way for achieving IT goals of lower costs, greater efficiency, and increased visibility is through rapidly assembling these services into modular and flexible business applications. Oracle SOA Suite 11g makes it simplest to build, deploy, and manage SOA with complete, open, integrated, and best-in-class technology.

 

Business Process Management 

 

Oracle helps your enterprise achieve all the benefits of better-managed processes by delivering unified, industry-leading products for Business Process Management (BPM). These unified products span modeling tools for business analysts, developer tools for system integration, business activity monitoring for dashboards, and user interaction for process participants. Unified BPM delivers faster time-to-value, reduces complexity and risk, and enables strategic advantage while delivering the tactical results you need today.

 

Oracle helps your enterprise achieve higher efficiency, visibility, and agility by delivering industry-leading products for BPM and Business Process Automation (BPA). The products in these pre-integrated portfolios span modeling tools for business analysts, developer tools for system integration, business activity monitoring for dashboards, and user interaction for process participants. Oracle BPM Suite and Oracle BPA Suite are the industry's most complete and unified family of BPM products. They deliver immediate and impactful ROI, driving customer service, operational excellence, and providing business value to SOA.

 

Identity Management

 

Oracle Identity Management is a complete and integrated, next-generation identity management platform that provides breakthrough scalability; enables organizations to achieve rapid compliance with regulatory mandates; secures sensitive applications and data regardless of whether they are hosted on-premise or in a cloud; and reduces operational costs.

 

Built on an innovative modern architecture that blends extreme scalability with rich user experience, Oracle Identity Management offers a best-in-class suite of identity management solutions that allow organizations to simplify identity lifecycle management and secure access from any device for all enterprise resources – both within and beyond the firewall.

 

Access Management

 

Oracle provides the industry’s most advanced security solution for securing applications, data, Web services, and cloud-based services. Built on a uniquely integrated modern architecture, Oracle Access Management software gives customers the flexibility to deploy a comprehensive solution delivering authentication, single sign-on, authorization, federation, mobile and social sign-on, identity propagation, and risk-based authentication and authorization at the network perimeter.

 

Identity Governance

 

Oracle Identity Governance empowers user self-service, simplifies account administration, and streamlines audit tasks resulting in a lower overall total cost of ownership for managing identities. By delivering a comprehensive platform for user registration, access request, role lifecycle management, provisioning, access certification, closed-loop remediation and privileged account management, Oracle is delivering a solution that both simplifies the process to address today's requirements and enables organizations to address emerging opportunities.

 

Directory Services

 

Oracle delivers the industry’s only integrated directory solution optimized for cloud, mobile, and social ecosystems. With a complete set of directory capabilities including identity virtualization, storage, and synchronization services, Oracle provides breakthrough performance for mission-critical enterprise and carrier grade environments.

 

Oracle Identity Management provides a comprehensive set of market-leading services including:

 

• Identity administration and role management

• User provisioning and compliance

• Web applications and web services access control

• Single sign-on and federated identities

• Fraud detection

• Strong, multi-factor authentication and risk management

• Role governance and identity analytics

• Audit and reports

 

 

All Oracle Identity Management components leverage the product suite’s best-in-class, highly scalable directory and identity virtualization services to maximize operational efficiency, ensuring the highest levels of performance and availability.

 

Content Management

 

Enterprise Content Management (ECM) provides organizations with a platform to house unstructured content and deliver it in the proper format to multiple enterprise applications. With this technology, you can:

 

• Efficiently build content-rich business applications

• Reuse content

• Integrate hundreds of content services with other business applications

 

ECM helps to decrease costs, automate processes, reduce resource bottlenecks and share content effectively. All this comes with minimizing the number of lost documents, and managing risk better.

 

Oracle Universal Content Management

 

Oracle Universal Content Management (UCM) is the industry's most unified enterprise content management platform, enabling you to leverage market-leading document management, Web content management, digital asset management, and records retention functionality to build and complement your business applications.

 

Building a strategic enterprise content management infrastructure for content and applications helps to:

 

• Reduce costs

• Share content across the enterprise

• Minimizes risk

• Automates expensive, time-intensive and manual processes

• Consolidates multiple websites onto a single platform for centralized management

 

Through user-friendly interfaces, roles-based authentication, and security models, Oracle Universal Content Management empowers users throughout the enterprise to view, collaborate-on or retire content, ensuring that all accessible distributed or published information is secure, accurate, and up-to-date.

 

Oracle Document Capture

 

Document capture is often the crucial first step in the content management process. Oracle offers two solutions that streamline the capture process of paper and electronic documents:

 

1. Oracle Document Capture: This supports high-volume production scanning from a central location

2. Oracle Distributed Document Capture: This provides a user-friendly web interface that allows distributed enterprises to easily capture images from remote locations

 

Both solutions offer industry-standard images from document scanners, automated indexing options, and flexible implementation methods. An efficient means to archive your document images and data.

 

Both products are fully integrated with Oracle Imaging and Process Management and Oracle Universal Content Management to provide organizations with one system to capture, manage, store and electronically retrieve their mission critical business content.

 

Oracle Imaging and Process Management 11g

 

Oracle Imaging and Process Management 11g is the most complete, integrated, and cost-effective imaging platform for end-to-end management of document images within enterprise business processes. It leverages Oracle Document Capture and Oracle Distributed Document Capture:

 

• For image capture

• Oracle Forms Recognition for intelligent data capture

• Provides annotation and markup of images

• Automates routing and approvals

• Supports enterprise-wide applications with a scalable repository

 

With Oracle Imaging and Process Management, organizations can quickly automate business processes in Oracle E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft Enterprise, and JD Edwards EnterpriseOne.

 

Oracle Universal Records Management

 

The expanding compliance legislation and high cost of litigation makes it essential for an organization’s content to be properly managed and easily accessible. Just as important is destroying content once its usefulness has expired or its legal retention period has run out. Oracle Universal Records Management 11g enables both of these processes, allowing organizations to define, manage, and execute records and retention policies for all enterprise content from a single application. Oracle Universal Records Management helps organizations control the creation, declaration, classification, retention, and destruction of content and business records, resulting in improved compliance, minimized litigation risk, and lower storage costs.

 

Oracle Information Rights Management 11g

 

Oracle Information Rights Management 11g is a new form of information security technology that secures and tracks sensitive digital information everywhere it is stored and used. Oracle Information Rights Management uses encryption to extend the management of information beyond the repository. It protects every copy of an organization's most sensitive information everywhere it is stored and used, including end-user desktops, laptops, mobile wireless devices, and other repositories—both inside and outside the firewall.

 

Forms Recognition

 

Data that drives business processes is often locked within paper documents such as invoices, orders, and freight bills. Oracle Forms Recognition provides the technology to locate and extract this data from captured documents and deliver it to back-end business systems, reducing the need for manual processing. Oracle Forms Recognition is integrated with Oracle Document Capture and Oracle Imaging and Process Management, providing organizations with comprehensive, end-to-end capture, imaging and workflow components.

 

Enterprise 2.0 and Portals

 

Enterprise 2.0 and Web 2.0 technologies have already transformed the ways customers, employees, partners, and suppliers communicate and stay informed. Forward-thinking organizations today need the necessary technology and infrastructure to help them advance to the next level and integrate social activities with business applications to deliver an unprecedented level of organizational awareness. As they acquire these capabilities, organizations need to move from the concept of a single "uber-portal" that encompasses all the necessary features to a more open, modular, component-based concept for composite applications. The ultimate end result will be rich, participatory enterprise portals and applications that combine the concepts of Web sites, composite applications, content management and social communities, all delivered via a seamlessly integrated, open, modern user experience platform.

 

Oracle WebCenter Suite is the modern user experience platform for the enterprise and the web. It consolidates the best user experience capabilities from a significant portfolio of leading portal products and related technologies to deliver a modern user experience for the enterprise that is seamlessly integrated with your enterprise applications. This complete, open and integrated user experience platform enables the development and deployment of internal and external portals and web sites and composite applications and mash-ups with integrated social and collaboration services, and it does it all on a complete enterprise content management infrastructure.

 

Oracle WebCenter Suite also provides the foundation for delivering a next-generation user experience for Fusion Middleware as well as Fusion Applications. Oracle WebCenter Suite delivers social and collaborative services to help optimize connections between people, information and applications; it provides business activity streams so users can navigate, discover and access content in context; and it offers dynamic personalization of applications, portals and sites so users have a customized experience.