Get Your Community To Collaborate On The Same Portal Page Jim Powell Product Manager Oracle Corporation Session id: OracleAS Portal Rich Lee Product Manager Oracle Corporation
Agenda Collaboration Problems Bringing it all together in OracleAS Portal Pre-Built Portlets Oracle Collaboration Suite Partner and Integration Solutions Building Collaboration Portlets
Some Collaboration Pains that We All Share! Too many web sites! Too many applications! Too many sources of information! Too many generic information! Too many systems to learn! Too many identities and profiles to remember! Too many system to develop, administer, and integrate! Too many operations, customers and competitors to understand! Too many dollars spent!
Today’s Collaboration Challenges Poor integration among important information sources such as , enterprise applications, document stores, etc. Collaboration to multiple user communities. Limitations in the underlying architecture and security. Overly complex solutions for collaboration.
“Professionals spend 5 to 15% of their time reading information, but up to 50% looking for it.” - The Gartner Group
Solution: OracleAS Portal Integrated Enterprise environment for content and information publishing and management Single source of information Easily find all the information you need
Agenda Collaboration Problems Bringing it all together in OracleAS Portal Pre-Built Portlets Oracle Collaboration Suite Partner and Integration Solutions Building Collaboration Portlets
What is a Portal? Portals World Wide Web Documents Hosted Services E-Business Services Enterprise Applications EmployeesEnterprisesPartnersCustomers
J2EE & Internet Apps Portals Wireless Business Intelligence e-BusinessIntegration Management & Security Caching ApplicationServer 10 G
Everything you Need in One Box! Data integration Application integration Application integration Portlet framework Portlet framework Personalization engine Personalization engine Workflow engine Workflow engine User authentication User authentication User directory User directory Single sign on Single sign on And More... And More... Application server Web caching Web caching Monitoring and Management Monitoring and Management Enterprise search Enterprise search Collaboration tools Collaboration tools Business intelligence tools Business intelligence tools Multi-device framework Multi-device framework Multi-language framework Multi-language framework Content management Content management OracleAS Portal
Many Collaborative Options for your Enterprise Portal Built-InPortletsCollaboration Suite Suite Integration & Partner Solutions Build your Portlets
Agenda Collaboration Problems Bringing it all together in OracleAS Portal Pre-Built Portlets Oracle Collaboration Suite Partner and Integration Solutions Building Collaboration Portlets
OracleAS Portal: Pre-Built Portlets Rich set of out-of-the Box Portlets Examples: – FAQ – Company News – Survey – Etc. OracleAS Portal Center
Agenda Collaboration Problems Bringing it all together in OracleAS Portal Pre-Built Portlets Oracle Collaboration Suite Partner and Integration Solutions Building Collaboration Portlets
Oracle Collaboration Suite Calendar Voic Files Search Microsoft Outlook Fax Voice Wireless Web iMeeting
Oracle Collaboration Suite Release 2 Consolidate servers for and file management as well as Real-Time Collaboration – Any platform support – Any deployment configuration Leverage the Unbreakable Oracle 9i infrastructure Embrace & Enhance users’ client applications Provide an integrated solution
Oracle Collaboration Suite Database
Collaboration Suite: Industrial strength, standards based server – IMAP4, SMTP, POP3, HTTP Rich SPAM and Virus checking / blocking tools Built in List-server capabilities Webmail client Native support for OiD Support for Outlook through Oracle Connector for Outlook Migration Tools from popular servers – Exchange, Notes, GroupWise, OpenMail
Collaboration Suite: Voic & Fax Wireless Analog Web or Client Voice Messages accessible from the phone and other devices Substantial cost savings in consolidating voice & infrastructure in the Data Center Voic Fax
Collaboration Suite: Wireless & Voice Integrated wireless Voice Collaboration Personalized access to critical messages Information finds you where you are Standards support
Collaboration Suite: Calendar Rich resource scheduling – Book resources based upon attributes or hierarchy – Approve/reject resource request through workflow integration iMeeting integration – Schedule and Join an iMeeting through calendar – Access iMeeting archive through Calendar Connector for Outlook – Presents Oracle Calendar in Outlook – Server-side rules including Out-of-office Assistant – Delegated management of folders – IMAP performance optimizations
Oracle Web Conferencing: Benefits Reduce Business Operating Expenses – Reduce travel, Increase Sales thru Web Conferences – Increased Employee productivity, better customer retention Simplify and Consolidate real-time Systems – Reduce IT expenditure Industry leading Real-time performance – Use iMeeting within the context of current Windows & Web Apps
Collaboration Suite: iMeeting Real-Time Collaboration All types of Online meetings – Small and Large Group Integrated with Outlook & Oracle Calendar E-business context – Real-time collaboration within the context of ALL Web and Desktop applications
Collaboration Suite: Synch Server SyncML server built into Collaboration Suite Many existing SyncML clients – Nokia – Ericsson – Etc… Information is automatically synchronized with clients – No additional coding required
Voice & Wireless FTP Client NFS Client Windows Explorer Browser AFP Client Team Collaboration Create, Edit, Share Collaboration Suite: Files
Share Documents and Files Collaborate on creation: share, edit, version Flexible user access Oracle Files Web User Interface Access from Explorer
Collaboration Suite: UltraSearch Ultra Search Appointments s Files Documents Voic s Web Pages Conferences
D E M O N S T R A T I O N OracleAS Portal & OCS
Agenda Collaboration Problems Bringing it all together in OracleAS Portal Pre-Built Portlets Oracle Collaboration Suite Partner and Integration Solutions Building Collaboration Portlets
Partner Portlets Over 50 leading partners Over 200 pre-built portlets Partners catalog includes: – Stock quotes, weather, and news – Internet searches – Discussion forums, task lists and collaborative workspaces OracleAS Portal Catalog
Integration Solutions Integrate various applications within your portal. Pre-built and easily configurable. – Lotus Notes Portlet – Microsoft Exchange Portlet – SAP Portlets – SMTP, SMS, UMS Portlets – IMAP Portlet – IBM Tn3270 / Telnet Portlets – Discussion Forum Portlet OracleAS Portal Center
Agenda Collaboration Problems Bringing it all together in OracleAS Portal Pre-Built Portlets Oracle Collaboration Suite Partner and Integration Solutions Building Collaboration Portlets
Declarative: Web Clipping Browse to Source Web Page ‘Section’ Page, Choose Clipping Wizard-driven, visual capture of content and functionality from existing Web sites for presentation in portlets. Portal Page with Web Clipping Data and UI
Web Clipping Declarative: OmniPortlet OmniportletOmniportlet Presents data from different Data Sources (Spreadsheet, Web Service, XML, JCA/J2CA, Database, Web Page) as Portlets on your page Different render-styles available (News, Tabular, Bar Chart, Pie Chart) Extensible – create new Renderers
Simple and Quick Page Designer 1 Select the Data Source Select the Layout Publish the Portlet 23 Wizard-Based Build Empower the Page Designer
Custom: PDK Set of Services to simplify developing Java Web Providers Enables Java programmers to quickly expose Java based applications as portlets Abstracts underlying communications mechanisms Provides mechanisms for displaying multiple content types, end user customization, security, and session storage
What Does the PDK Support? And much more …
Summary OracleAS Portal provides a framework solution for collaborative applications. Provide a common portal for all your community. Includes: – Prebuilt portlets – Integration with Oracle Collaboration Suite – Partner & Integration Solution – Tools to build your own collaboration portlets.
A Q & Q U E S T I O N S A N S W E R S
Next Steps…. Recommended sessions – 40046: An Overview of Enterprise Portals: Today and Tomorrow - Marco Tilli – 40050: Design an Attractive and Compelling Portal Interface – 40082: Develop Java Portlets for Your Portal – 40083: Integrate your Enterprise Business Applications Into Your Portal Recommended demos and/or hands-on labs – Oracle Application Server Portal Hands-on lab
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Get Your Community To Collaborate On The Same Portal Page Jim Powell Product Manager Oracle Corporation Session id: OracleAS Portal Rich Lee Product Manager Oracle Corporation