Oracle Webcenter News & Articles

When Oracle picked up FatWire it was immediately thought that the two would complement each other, while creating a bit of overlap in Oracle's existing product line-up. At this year's Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco, Oracle Senior Principal Product Manager Joe Duane and Mariam Tariq of WebCenter Product Management shed a bit of light on the subject. 

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.

Today Oracle (news, site) released detailed on its plans for customer engagement through the use of Oracle WebCenter. What does this mean for FatWire's web engagement platform?

Through a strategic liaison, Oracle now provides Day’s JCR/JSR 170-compliant connectors. This enables integration between third-party content repositories — like EMC Documentum and SharePoint — and Oracle WebCenter.

The connectors come from a license agreement from 4Q06.

Oracle WebCenter is — and we quote — an “integrated, comprehensive, and standards-compliant user experience platform.” Java devs can build AJAX-rich components, portlets and content in an open architecture.

Day’s standardized connectors yield access to a standardized API from which companies can manage all organizational content.

In short, the liaison is an enterprise-trawling, Web 2.0 junkie’s dream.

Day served as initiator of JSR 170. Last year, it helped develop compliant components for Oracle. A group of global industry experts, led by day, includes Oracle, in addition to IBM, SAP, FileNet and Sun.