CMS Integration Introduction

Intended Audience

The Content Management System Integration Guide is intended for clients, system administrators, and consultants.

Related Documents

Definition of Related Content Management Terms and Concepts

CMS (Content Management System): A set of processes and technologies that support the collection, managing, and publishing of information in any form or medium. A CMS typically provides for long-term storage of information, information retrieval and global search capabilities.
Document: An electronic file containing information, seen by the CMS as a unique entity. The document typically has metadata associated with it for identification and search.
Folder: A named collection holding documents and other folders. Folders can be hierarchical.
Versioning: Support for a checkin/checkout paradigm of document editing. A CMS that supports versioning allows a single document to hold multiple versions of information.
Unfiling: Support for the addition of a CMS Document without a specified folder.

Definition of Related Protocol Terms and Concepts

Web Services: A standard integration protocol built on top of SOAP to invoke host services from a client machine.
Atom Publishing: A simple HTTP-based protocol for creating and updating web resources.
WCC (Oracle WebCenter Content): Oracle’s enterprise-class content management solution.

Definition of Related Oracle Transportation and Global Trade Management Cloud Terms and Concepts

Business Object: An Oracle Transportation and Global Trade Management Cloud entity that can own content and has a transactional life cycle. Business object examples include shipments and trade transactions.
Report: Generation of business content from an Oracle Transportation and Global Trade Management Cloud business object and a Oracle Analytics Publisher template.
Document: A piece of content managed by Oracle Transportation and Global Trade Management Cloud. The content may be stored within the Oracle Transportation and Global Trade Management Cloud schema or an external CMS.
Document Type: A classification of documents within Oracle Transportation and Global Trade Management Cloud. E.g., Bill of Lading is a type of document/report owned by shipments.
Standard Document: The association of a document type with a particular business object. E.g., a Bill of Lading may be required for a particular shipment.
Revision: The instantiation of content for a standard document. A business object may have one or more revisions for a given standard document. Each revision corresponds to a single document.

The system provides optional integration to the following Content Management Systems: