What Is Oracle WebCenter Spaces?

Oracle WebCenter Spaces is a ready-to-use application that pulls together the capabilities of all the WebCenter Services to empower teams to quickly and efficiently manage their information, applications, projects, and people without requiring IT assistance. It brings together the latest technology around social computing, communities, personal productivity, and ad-hoc team interactions with no development effort. Oracle WebCenter Spaces allows users to work more effectively with project teams and work groups, including teams that span multiple geographies and include external members. It eliminates or reduces duplication of efforts and content inconsistencies, and it enables sharing valuable team resources to solve business problems, tap into new ideas, and reduce time to market.

By providing a dynamic foundation for users to work together in teams, Oracle WebCenter Spaces helps your enterprise address many challenges, such as:

• Geographically dispersed teams with poor communication.
  
  
• Slow progress on projects and business initiatives due to lack of coordinated information.
  
  
• Information locked away on individuals' desktops and unavailable to others.
  
  
• E-mail overload and too many attachments requiring merging of changes.
  
  
• Inaccessible business intelligence information at the time when it is required.
  
  
• Direct integration and support of Enterprise Application transactions.
  
  
• Client software incompatibility and upgrades (Notes, Outlook, Safari, Internet Explorer, and so on).
  

Oracle WebCenter Spaces delivers the following powerful features that enable you to provide a productive environment to deliver team-based sites, along with enterprise and departmental portals:

• Personal Spaces: Provide individual users with a dashboard of all the information they believe relevant to them. Users' personal spaces likely include links or portlets for critical applications they use every day and could also include their own personal feeds from a friend's social network pages. Personal spaces deliver a way for each user to have their own set of personal pages that they can create, change, and share with others.
  
  
• Business Role Pages: Provide a powerful way to communicate with specific types of users within an organization and across the company. As defined in an enterprise, users have specific roles for their various groups from administrators to sales representatives, engineers to business managers. Communicating with a specific set of people in these roles can be challenging. Business role pages provide an efficient way to attach a page or set of pages to a specific enterprise role so that all the users are kept up-to-date with information specific to them and their job function.
  
  
• Group Spaces: Provide a meaningful way to manage all project details involving any group of users. Group spaces also make it easy to deliver a departmental or enterprise portal without having to spend a lot of development time building out the site. By leveraging the Oracle Business Dictionary or Resource Catalog, administrators and end users get a role-based view of what they can add to the project or portal sites. Group spaces can be completely customized, including the navigation controls, the color scheme, and the look and feel of any task flow or portlet. All of this is managed in a way that insulates the IT team from application upgrades. With the new community capabilities and large number of pre-integrated task flows or portlets, teams can start working immediately and enterprise portals can be delivered in an extremely short time.
  
  
• Group Space Templates: Provide a consistent look and feel, and an efficient way for everyone to get started. While Oracle WebCenter Spaces is optimally configured out-of-the-box so that you can be productive immediately, there are many applications or portals that require your business-specific components or a tailored look and feel for a targeted use. Group space templates allow any user to save a group space that they have created as a template for others to use directly.
  
  
• Powerful Localization Features: Oracle WebCenter Spaces is delivered with over 28 default languages and custom language packs. Additionally, one instance of Oracle WebCenter Spaces can display multiple languages for different audiences at the same time.