2 Understand Your Content Management Options
Oracle Content Management has several different ways to manage your content depending on your needs:
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If you manage assets that need to be published for use within digital experiences (websites and other channels) or translated into multiple languages, you'll use a digital asset repository. Digital asset repositories can store digital assets (such as images, videos, and files) and content items (structured content such as blogs or press releases). Assets in digital asset repositories can be cached by the embedded CDN for scalable delivery worldwide. You can use built-in review or multi-step workflow processes to approve assets.
Assets and asset repositories are available only to enterprise users.
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If you manage business documents (such as invoices, contracts, engineering drawings, or reports), you'll use a business asset repository. Business asset repositories can store business documents (any type of file an enterprise needs to manage to run their business), and content items (such as employee, customer, and supplier records). Business asset repositories are designed to ensure document security. Assets in business asset repositories require an authenticated user to access them. In addition, business assets don't support localization. You can use built-in review or multi-step workflow processes to approve assets.
Assets and asset repositories are available only to enterprise users.
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If you just need an simple way for your organization to share files and folders and collaborate with each other, you can use the Documents page. Document collaboration allows you to store any type of file in a hierarchical folder structure. These files aren't intended for publication to digital experiences, don't support localization, don't support categorization with taxonomies, and don't support a built-in approval process.
This table compares the features available with each content management option.
| Feature | Digital Asset Repositories | Business Asset Repositories | Document Collaboration |
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| Upload content |  |
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| Download content | |
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| Public access to content | 1 |
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| Custom asset types | |
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| Sync content to desktop | |
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| Smart content | |
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| Cross-reference content | |
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| Publish content | |
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| Localize content | |
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| Image renditions | |
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| Recommendations (in Oracle Content Management sites) | |
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| Custom ranking policies | |
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| Analytics | |
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| Performance data | |
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| Review and collaboration options | |||
| Organizational methods | |||
| Metadata options |
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1 Digital asset repositories allow you to publish content to public channels.
2 Document collaboration allows you to create public links to files and folders.