| Oracle® Beehive Concepts Release 2 (2.0.1.8) Part Number E16644-06 |
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| Oracle® Beehive Concepts Release 2 (2.0.1.8) Part Number E16644-06 |
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Oracle Beehive provides a common model that enables a wide variety of clients and devices to connect with the platform. Once connected to the platform, supported clients and devices can access and leverage the collaborative services and data that it provides.
Oracle Beehive provides several out-of-the-box client options for enterprise users. Oracle Beehive also supports several standardized protocols, enabling organizations to integrate and deploy standards-based clients, as well as mobile devices, easily with the platform. Organizations can also integrate and deploy custom clients or incorporate Oracle Beehive clients into existing interfaces such as portals.
This module provides an overview of the end-user clients and devices that Oracle Beehive supports, and includes the following topics:
Oracle Beehive Extensions for Explorer is an extension to Microsoft® Windows® Explorer that provides Oracle Beehive users direct access to their workspaces and workspace content, such as folders and documents. Oracle Beehive Extensions for Explorer also facilitates seamless team collaboration. For example, users can launch Oracle Beehive conferences directly from Windows Explorer, where they can share and discuss workspace content in real time.
Oracle Beehive Extensions for Explorer includes the following features:
Desktop-direct Oracle Beehive workspace management:
Browse, view, configure workspaces
View workspace properties, preference settings, and version history
Explore and restore deleted workspace folders and documents
Shortcuts (links) to Beehive documents and folders within Beehive workspaces
Start the Oracle Beehive Team Collaboration client
Folder-level management:
Browse heterogeneous folders within workspaces
Add, delete, copy, and move folders within workspaces
Document management, collaboration, and access:
Drag-and-drop functionality to Oracle Beehive workspaces
View document properties and version history
Document storage, sharing, and version control, with check in, check out, and cancel checkout capabilities
Apply and modify sensitivities
Add, delete, and rename documents in workspace folders and local system files
Copy and move documents across workspace folders and local system files
Offline access to folders and documents
Schedule and start meetings or send e-mail directly from workspace documents
Start Oracle Beehive Conferencing from workspace documents
Access WebDAV documents online with Copy URL feature
Edit-in-place functionality
Oracle Beehive Extensions for Explorer is supported on the Microsoft Windows XP, Vista (32-bit), and Windows 7 (32-bit) operating systems.
For more information on the tasks that you can perform with Oracle Beehive Extensions for Explorer, see Oracle Beehive Extensions for Explorer Help at the following location:
http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/beehive/beehive_users/2_0/obee.htm
Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook is a Messaging Application Programming Interface (MAPI) service provider for Microsoft Outlook. Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook extends the functionality of Microsoft Outlook by providing Outlook users with unified access to Oracle Beehive-based collaborative features and data, including team and personal workspaces, in a familiar environment. Through Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook, users can leverage advanced personal productivity features for e-mail, time management, documentation management, tasks, contacts, notes, and journals.
Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook is supported in Windows XP, Vista (32-bit), and Windows 7 (32-bit and 64-bit) operating systems with the following versions of Microsoft Outlook:
Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook requires installation on the computers of individual users. Access to the installation package can be provided to users as a download from internal websites or Oracle Beehive administrators can push the package to users by leveraging the Device Management Service (DMS), which is exposed through the beectl command-line utility.
For more information on the tasks that you can perform with Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook, see Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook Help at the following location:
http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/beehive/beehive_users/2_0/obeo.htm
Oracle Beehive Central is a Web-based client that provides users a central location to download supported clients and set their preferences for Oracle Beehive functionality. This includes the ability to delegate privileges for users' e-mail, calendars, tasks, notes, journals, and contacts.
Oracle Beehive Central supports Mozilla Firefox 2.0 in the Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, and Solaris operating systems, and Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 in the Windows operating system only.
For more information on the tasks that you can perform with Oracle Beehive Central, see Oracle Beehive Central Help at the following location:
http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/beehive/beehive_users/2_0/central.htm
Oracle Beehive Conferencing is a feature-rich, desktop client that enables Oracle Beehive users to conduct Web-based meetings and presentations. Oracle Beehive Conferencing provides the following features and capabilities:
Schedule and create instant meetings
Voice conferencing
Presentation management
Desktop sharing
Ability to record conferences
Attendee list management
Intra-conference instant chats
Meeting alerts and requests
The Oracle Beehive Conferencing client is supported on both Windows and Macintosh operating systems.
Oracle Beehive also provides the Oracle Beehive Web Conferencing Center, which enables users to view, start, join, filter, delete, and refresh their scheduled conferences through supported Web browsers.
For more information on the tasks that you can perform with Oracle Beehive Conferencing and the Oracle Beehive Web Conferencing Center, see Oracle Beehive Conferencing Help at the following location:
http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/beehive/beehive_users/2_0/conferencing.htm
For users familiar with accessing team knowledge bases through Web-based technologies, Oracle provides Oracle Beehive Team Collaboration. Oracle Beehive Team Collaboration leverages dynamic, wiki page technology to support team collaboration activities in Oracle Beehive workspaces.
Through Oracle Beehive Team Collaboration, users can perform the following collaborative tasks:
Create and manage workspaces.
Manage workspace memberships by adding participants and assigning workspace roles to them.
Create and manage workspace calendar events.
Create and manage workspace documents through user-defined, hierarchical folder directories.
Through mount points created by workspace coordinators, access content hosted on remote repositories.
Create and manage team-based wiki sites.
View the history of changes for wiki pages and restore previous versions.
Post comments and reply to previously-posted comments on wiki pages.
Post announcements for important events, activities, and notices.
Subscribe to RSS-based feeds, enroll in workspace calendars, and view recent activities to stay updated on the latest workspace activities.
Apply tags to workspace content for identification and categorization.
Oracle Beehive Team Collaboration supports the following Web browsers on the Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Vista, Mac OS X, and Linux operating systems:
Apple Safari 4
Microsoft Internet Explorer 7
Mozilla Firefox 3.x
For more information on the tasks that you can perform with Oracle Beehive Team Collaboration, see Oracle Beehive Oracle Beehive Team Collaboration Help at the following location:
http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/beehive/beehive_users/2_0/teamcollab.htm
Oracle Beehive Webmail is a powerful online messaging and collaboration tool providing instant anytime access to your Beehive mail, calendar, contacts, tasks, and workspace content. In addition, Oracle Beehive Webmail extends calendar management features by allowing you to schedule and join Beehive conferences. You can also organize, search, and tag content, view and manage your personal and team workspaces, build multiple address book hierarchies, and share and delegate address books, mail folders, calendars, and tasks lists.
Oracle Beehive Webmail is based on the open source Zimbra Web client and supports the following Web browsers in the Windows (Vista and XP) and Mac OS operating systems:
Apple Safari 3
Mozilla Firefox 2.0
Mozilla Firefox 3.0
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0
Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0
For more information on the tasks that you can perform with Oracle Beehive Webmail, refer to the Oracle Beehive Webmail Help at the following location:
http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/beehive/beehive_users/2_0/zimbra.htm
Oracle Beehive provides wireless access to your e-mail, calendar events, tasks, and contacts allowing you to stay connected to your team directly from your phone wherever you go. The Oracle Beehive Mobile Communicator allows you to keep in touch using instant Messaging and search the directory for users directly from your iPhone, BlackBerry, or Windows Mobile phone.
For help on using mobile devices with Oracle Beehive, see the Registering and Configuring Mobile Devices Help at:
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/beehive/documentation/mobile20-169228.pdf
Oracle Beehive supports a variety of standards-based protocols, enabling organizations to deploy and integrate commonly-available, as well as custom, clients to access Oracle Beehive data and leverage its robust feature set for the following needs:
File access and document management: Provided through support for Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV), File Transfer Protocol (FTP), FTP over Transport Layer Security (TLS), and JSR-170.
E-mail: Provided through support for Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) and Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP).
Time management: Provided through support for Calendaring Extensions to WebDAV (CalDAV).
Instant messaging: Provided through support for Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP).
Mobile e-mail and data synchronization: Push Internet Message Access Protocol (P-IMAP) and Open Mobile Alliance Data Synchronization (OMA-DS).
For the complete list of standards-based and open source clients that Oracle Beehive supports, and for details on how to configure them, see Oracle Beehive Standards-based Client Help at the following location:
http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/beehive/beehive_users/2_0/standards.htm
Oracle Beehive provides interfaces to voicemail, auto-attendant, and user directory features for the following telephony client types:
Oracle Beehive provides interfaces that enable users to manage their Oracle Beehive voicemail and access auto-attendant features from any phone.
Oracle Beehive provides interfaces to voicemail, auto-attendant, and user directory features for the following Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) products:
The interfaces provide text-based menus that enable users to leverage these supported products to manage their voicemail and to browse the user directories for their enterprises.
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