Oracle WebCenter Suite

Oracle WebCenter Suite 

The heading of the blog might not be appealing as they are new names  of the product opted by oracle after important acquisitions.

In this fast moving world, if you don’t read technical blogs and web articles continuously then you would feel alone unless somebody explains you what had happened recently. In my case, I had worked on Oracle Portal two years back and I was well aware of the product. Recently, we had an enhancement to integrate our application with portal. I was stuck with something and tried to search on Google or Bing. I got my answer in OTN but I saw a new word i.e. ‘WebCenter Portal’ nearly in all search results. I had noticed but didn’t give time to explore it.

Second instance happened when Oracle acquired Stellent and FatWire. Stellent CMS product named ‘Universal Content System’ (UCM) was branded as ‘Oracle UCM’. by Oracle. We all were well aware of new branding as every forum and document had replaced Stellent UCM by Oracle UCM. Suddenly, Oracle acquired FatWire which lead to re-brand Oracle UCM as WebCenter sites. This made a confusion for users and developers. 

I was reading Oracle articles and recent announcements in Oracle Open World. I found very good information on WebCenter suite. Oracle should be considered a big time competitor to IBM and Microsoft in the Portal, Content Management and Social spaces. The out of the box integration features that Oracle provides across all of its product line, not just WebCenter is fantastic. 

Here is brief summary of products that Oracle has in WebCenter suite which cover ECM, WCM, Portal and Social. 

1. WebCenter Portal – A powerful combination of the best features from Oracle, BEA,  and Sun portals. This used to be called Web Center Spaces.

2.  WebCenter Sites – The FatWire Web Content Management system.

3.  WebCenter Content – The ECM product based on Stellent.

4.  WebCenter Connect – Also known as Web Center Social.

Oracle WebCenter suite = Oracle WebCenter Portal + Oracle WebCenter Sites + Oracle WebCenter Content + Oracle WebCenter Connect

Above diagram also shows the same.