Today's post is from Michelle Huff, Senior Director, Product Management, Oracle WebCenter
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In case you missed it, I presented on a webcast yesterday
focused on how you can “Do More with Oracle WebCenter – Expand Beyond Content
Management.” As you may remember, we rebranded Oracle’s Enterprise Content
Management (ECM) Suite, which some people knew by the wonderfully techie three-letter
acronyms -- UCM, URM & IPM -- to Oracle WebCenter Content last year. Since
it’s a unified ECM platform, I’ve seen many customers over the years continue
to expand the number of content-centric solutions and application integrations
powered by WebCenter throughout their organizations.
But, did you know WebCenter also provides portal,
collaboration and web experience management capabilities as well? This enables
you to leverage your existing investment in the WebCenter platform as well as
the information you’re managing to create engaging sites, collaborative spaces,
or self-service portals and composite applications. In the webcast I walked
through six different ways that you can do more with WebCenter:
Collaborative content contribution and sharing
environment
Share content across intranets and extranets
Combine content in composite applications
Create targeted online experiences
Manage interactive social experiences
Optimize multi-channel customer experiences
Joining me on the call was Greg Utecht with TIES. TIES is a joint powers cooperative
owned by 46 Minnesota school districts, represents 514 schools – and provides
software applications, hardware and software, internet service and professional
development designed by educators for education. I was having a lot of fun over
the past few days talking with Greg about the TIES implementation and future
plans with WebCenter. He joined me on the call for a little Q&A to explain how
he’s using WebCenter today for their iContent implementation for document
management, records management and archiving. And also covered how they have
expanded their implementation to create a collaborative space called their
HRPay System with WebCenter to facilitate collaboration and to better engage their
users within the school districts. During our conversation a few questions came
from the audience about their implementation. They were curious to see how the
system looked – so let’s take a peak.
This first screenshot shows the screen that a human resources or payroll
worker in one of our member districts would see upon logging in, based on their
credentials and role in their district.
This shows the result of clicking on the SUBSCRIBE link
on the main page. It allows the user to subscribe to parts of the portal which
will e-mail him/her when those are updated in any way.
This shows the screen that a human resources or payroll
worker in one of our member districts would see upon clicking on the Resources
link.
This shows the screen that a human resources or payroll
worker in one of our member districts would see upon clicking on the Finance
Advisory link. It shows the discussion threads and document sharing areas.
This shows the screen that appears when the forum topic
on the preceding screen is clicked.
This shows the screen portlet up close with shared
documents.
This shows the screen that appears when a shared
document is clicked on. Note that there is also a download button and an update
button, meaning people can work on these collaboratively.
If you missed the
webcast, check it out! You can watch the replay OnDemand HERE. If you attended
the webcast, thanks for joining - I hoped you learned a little from the
session. I learned that kids are getting digital report cards today! Wow, have
times changed with technology. Uh oh, is this when I start saying “You know,
back in my days…?”
