Oracle WebCenter Sites

It is a good uniform system to use but there is a large barrier to entry and feels incredibly bureaucratic and not always easy to use.

Overall, Oracle WebCenter Sites has helped our company with efficiency and relieved some of the burden on our IT department. It allows people from other departments (namely Marketing) who may not be especially tech-savvy to manage and deploy content changes, categorize products on our eCommerce site, etc.

Implementation was a bit of a struggle, so be prepared. Also, as with most Oracle products, their support contracts end up being very costly over the long run.

Customer engagement and content sharing, analytical evaluation and use of analytics to help drive better optimization and delivery of content targeted better to specific user segments.

It is very well suited for any web related use, be it intranet or internet. The WSISYG content author form makes it easy to train content authors to use the system. The workflow is well integrated with publishing, making it easy to manage the content flow. The user ACL makes it easy to assign roles to a user and provide appropriate rights to a user in the workflow to act on the asset. It can be easily integrated with social media like Facebook and Twitter via a community plugin. The template coding is in Java, so the existing developers can be trained to use Oracle WebCenter Sites (WCS).

Oracle WebCenter Sites is very well suited to presenting marketing content in all shapes and forms, including mobile, an in a corporate web site. Oracle WebCenter Sites can also manage small product catalogs easily. Important things to consider when selecting a CMS:

• How important is the ease with which my business users update content?
• How often are updates made?
• How distributed are my business contributors?
• How important is preview in my organization's workflow and publishing process?

It is better suited to larger projects where stability and scalability are key problems, but for simple projects it requires too much effort by the developer.

- Typology content.
- Workflow.
- Customizing.
- Number of users.

Oracle WebCenter Sites is a content management system well-structured and robust, suitable for large projects. This product is suitable mainly for static content, not for transactional processes (eg form with step). It is less appropriate for small portals with low number of visitors, which you do not want to invest a lot in terms of maintenance.