News Facts

-- As part of today's Oracle(R) Fusion Middleware 11g launch, Oracle

announced the general availability of Oracle WebCenter Suite 11g, a

modern enterprise portal platform which will help increase productivity

for business users and IT by bringing together people in organizations

with the business processes and information they need to access.

-- New and enhanced features which enable users to build and manage online

business communities that help capture and strengthen relationships

between people, processes, applications and information to increase

insight and accelerate strategic decision-making include: Oracle

WebCenter Spaces, Oracle WebCenter Services, Oracle Business Dictionary,

Oracle Composer, Task Flows and pre-packaged integrations.

-- Business users can create portal mashups that consolidate business

applications, business intelligence, content, and social computing

services on a single screen. This puts relevant communities,

information, and the tools to make key business decisions at users'

fingertips.

-- Developers now have a single, modern portal framework to help businesses

adapt to changing markets by simplifying and accelerating the

development, deployment, and management of customizable portals, Web

sites, composite applications, and communities.

-- To simplify implementation, Oracle WebCenter Suite 11g bundles leading

enterprise content management, enterprise search, business process

management, and presence capabilities. As a hot-pluggable component of

Oracle Fusion Middleware, it extends and enhances the value of existing

strategic investments through certified integrations with Oracle

Database, Oracle Identity Management, Oracle Business Intelligence,

Oracle Applications and several third-party applications.

New Capabilities for Business and IT Innovation

-- Oracle WebCenter Suite 11g delivers significant new functionality:

-- Oracle WebCenter Spaces is a personal and team work- environment for

business users to create formal and ad hoc Web-based communities to

simplify or accelerate completion of projects or business processes.