4 Oracle Instant Portal

Oracle Instant Portal makes it easy to create communities of users who can share content in a secure environment. Oracle Instant Portal features provide a simple way to do the following:

Enable content sharing throughout your company
Create smaller portals to serve the needs of a particular department
Communicate more fully with partners or customers

The Oracle Instant Portal interface and easy editing controls mean you spend less time building a portal and more time helping users get their jobs done efficiently. The following are some of the key benefits of Oracle Instant Portal:

Pre-generated, pre-configured pages mean no initial development costs. Pages are ready to receive content immediately.
Pre-configured home page displays news, announcements, and newly added content. The Favorite content area lets users personalize the content simply.
Point-and-click operations for changing style, managing pages, contributing and managing content, and managing user access.
In-place editing provides simple, WYSIWYG (what-you-see-is-what-you-get) editing right on the page.

With Oracle Instant Portal, you can have a functioning portal in less than an hour.

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