Oracle Ucm News & Articles

Since Oracle announced that it was buying web experience management vendor FatWire (news, site), there has been a lot of speculation as to what the company might do with the product set. Yesterday, Andy MacMillan, VP of Product Management for Enterprise 2.0 at Oracle, outlined the roadmap for Fatwire and explained how Oracle will make sense of things under the Oracle WebCenter moniker.

While the release last year of Oracle’s UCM 11g offered users, for the first time with UCM, a unified repository in what Oracle described as a “strategic release," searching content was always going to be a problem. Fishbowl (news, site), an Oracle Gold Partner, is offering a way to overcome that with the release of a Google Search Appliance connector.

There is power in Metadata. Unfortunately, administrators tend to overlook or not fully understand the abilities of the tools that come with most enterprise content management applications. Oracle’s Universal Content Management application has a not-so-hidden gem that is all too often overlooked: Metadata Profiles.

It is probably appropriate that a little less than two months after Oracle (news, site) released its Enterprise Content Management Suite 11g, Dmitri Khanine, who publishes the Independent Oracle UCM Knowledge Center, has just released a new book that promises a whirlwind tour of the Oracle Universal Content Management (UCM) component of the suite.

Oracle (news, site) has announced two major additions to the document management module of its Universal Content Management (UCM) Enterprise CMS today: Forms Recognition software and Imaging and Process Management 11g.

Oracle acquired Stellent's content management system in a US$ 440 million deal that closed in December of 2006. Since then Oracle has integrated the Stellent assets into the Oracle Fusion Middleware line of products. Here's a look at what is now known as Oracle Universal Content Management (UCM).

After many intellectual property and anti-trust concerns, one of the biggest deals in the technology space has been approved. Sun fans wipe their tears, as Oracle (news, site) chooses a new motto "Software. Hardware. Complete." -- aiming to provide a full stack of storage, hardware, operating systems, databases, middleware and Java.

All of the above are integral parts of the content management industry. Thus, we pondered a bit over what, if any, impact the Oracle/Sun merger will have on thee.

The Forrester Wave for Web Content Management For External Sites, Q2 2009 is out and there are 10 web content management vendors on the list that we all know and love well. SDL Tridion (news, site) took the top honors this time with Interwoven and FatWire close behind.

Why are these three vendors at the top and who else is on the list? Let's take a look.

For organizations that have invested in Oracle Universal Content Management (UCM) (news, site) and feel that maybe the collaborative workspace features of SharePoint might have suited them better, a new solution has just been unveiled that might make them change their mind.

Developed by Fishbowl Solutions, a Minneapolis-based software company specializing in Oracle UCM solutions, CollabPoint offers many features in common with SharePoint, but on the Oracle UCM platform.

This new solution, which was unveiled at Oracle’s Collaborate 2009 forum during the week, offers users Enterprise 2.0 functionality for Oracle UCM accessed through a clean and simple interface.

CollabPoint allows users, either singly, or as teams, share and collaborate on projects within the Oracle platform.

For organizations who have invested in Oracle Universal Content Management and want to expose its content to other systems and applications, EntropySoft has created a connector just for you. And it’s bidirectional to boot.

Gilbane recently produced a research paper entitled: Information Workplace Platforms: Oracle vs SharePoint which has some interesting findings on which of these two ECM platforms is the best choice for an organizations information lifecycle.

The report findings are based on research on a number of companies who reviewed both platforms for their Information Management needs and what their final decisions turned out to be.

California-based database and applications giant Oracle has finally made an Enterprise CMS acquisition. The company has announced that it will buy Stellent for $13.50 per share, or $440 million, in cash. The agreed amount is more than 25% above Stellent’s closing price on Thursday, a boon for Stellent stock holders. However, for Stellent’s customer base, the future may not be quite as rosy looking.