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Oracle Content Manager (OCM) is a key component of the Sales, Marketing, and E-Commerce applications. It enables content to be stored and managed in a central repository, thereby forming a single source of truth for accurate and consistent content.
In OCM, a content is a structured data that is managed through a life cycle that includes creating, approving, translating, and publishing. A content can be a text file, an image, an audio, or a video file. For example, a product manager can describe the product's functionality in a text field. To market the product, a marketing person can create an attractive video file using the same product description. To ensure that they both access the same content, it must be available in a central repository.
OCM integrates with Oracle E-Business Suite and enables seamless transition of content to and from Oracle E-Business Suite applications. Integration also facilitates single user sign-on to associate content such as product images, white papers, and newsletters with any E-Business Objects like store sections, inventory products, and marketing campaigns or activities.
The key features of OCM include:
Store data in the central repository
Create content based on templates
Control multiple versions of the same content
Approve content based on the workflow notifications
Maintain translated versions of the content item
Maintain renditions of the same content in different formats
Support content reuse
Support flexible presentation of content through many channels such as print, e-mail, and fax
Control the access of the folders, to permit only users with appropriate permission to access them the data
Preview the content before publishing using stylesheets
Create many content items at once by uploading a zip file
Helps to keep the content separated from its presentation by using content types to maintain the structure of the content and stylesheets to present the same content in different formats