Oracle WebCenter Sites Review
We use it across the business to ship items.
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What is Oracle WebCenter Sites?
Oracle WebCenter Sites is the new name for FatWire which Oracle acquired in 2011. It is a complete CMS often bundled with other Oracle WebCenter products to present a more comprehensive management solution for businesses and enterprises.
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What is Oracle WebCenter Sites?
Oracle WebCenter Sites is the new name for FatWire which Oracle acquired in 2011. It is a complete CMS often bundled with other Oracle WebCenter products to present a more comprehensive management solution for businesses and enterprises.
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What is Oracle WebCenter Sites?
Oracle WebCenter Sites is the new name for FatWire which Oracle acquired in 2011. WebCenter Sites supports multi-channel brand-consistent marketing efforts across multiple sites that are mobile accessible to end users. Integration with other content management and e-commerce sites is supported for web publishing. Interactive sites are created via integration with social networking, blogs, polls, commenting, rating and reviews. Visitor analytics drive marketing optimization efforts.
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Oracle WebCenter Sites Technical Details
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| Mobile Application | No |
Frequently Asked Questions
Oracle WebCenter Sites is the new name for FatWire which Oracle acquired in 2011. It is a complete CMS often bundled with other Oracle WebCenter products to present a more comprehensive management solution for businesses and enterprises.
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March 06, 2020
Oracle WebCenter Sites Review
We use it across the business to ship items.
- Repository for massive amount of company information.
- Uniform process across thousands of employees.
- Complicated to finalize orders which can cause frustration.
- Not an easy help section to resolve issues quickly.
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- Negative because it takes an incredible amount of time to get items into the system in order to be shipped.
February 24, 2020
A Contender for Content Management
Our company has quite a few websites for different product lines. We have a relatively small IT department making it difficult for us to keep up with the influx of support requests. Once we implemented Oracle WebCenter Sites, we were able to turn over the content management to our Marketing department. Since there were daily content change requests, this has alleviated a lot of pressure on our IT department.
- It makes content changes simple.
- Publishing changes is a breeze.
- Oracle should provide better documentation and tutorials.
- There are cheaper alternatives.
62.5%
6.3
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- It has alleviated some of the burden on our IT staff.
- It has allowed our Marketing department to be more hands-on with content changes, and they have more flexibility with the types of changes and how often they make them.
December 14, 2017
Oracle WebCenter Manages Investor Relations
We use the tool to help with web content particularly in the area of investor relations. We use a 3rd party IR firm and share content in the design of various web sites. This saves us considerable time and effort between company personnel and IR firm personnel. We may also use it in the future for its mobile capabilities; that is yet to be determined.
The system works very reliably and support functions are most helpful.
The system works very reliably and support functions are most helpful.
- Timely management of web content including examining future designs and enhancements.
- Targeting of customer groups.
- Analytical capabilities to help define usage and gather info for future refinements.
- More customer examples to help new users understand the capabilities better.
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- Considerable time sharing in managing content between sites which are located across multiple time zones.
- We don't formally evaluate ROI on projects such as this as there tend to be too many assumptions that have to be made.
We think Oracle's solution is more flexible, more robust, has broader support infrastructure and good user community.
June 14, 2016
WCS is best if implemented correctly
Oracle WebCenter Sites, is a WEM platform for companies to build their internet/intranet sites. It has a WSISYG form, which makes it easy for the content contributor to create/edit content. It also comes with user management and can be integrated with LDAP if required. Also it has an inbuilt workflow, which allows the company to define their content flow the way they want it.
- WSISYG editor for content authors
- Workflow
- User ACL
- Publishing method
- Caching
- Vanity URL
- Cloud
- Publishing
- Workflow
- ACL
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- Content Author finds it easy to use
- Publishing is integrated with user ACL and workflow making it easy
- Existing Java developers can be retrained to code in WCS
There are lot of WCM products available in the market, some free and some licensed. But for a organisation using more Oracle products and on Java technology, WCS is the best in class, for intranet and internet needs. It has everything which is required for a web application. Also it can be well integrated with other platforms with Oracle Document Cloud/Oracle Content/Oracle Identity Manager and a lot more. Its a well integrated product. It can also be integrated with social media using a community plugin. It also comes with its own search and analytics tools. The templates are pure JSP and can be easily coded by Java developers using the development guide. Its based on Java, so writing custom applications and integrating is easy.
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WCS was the best fit in the architecture given the integration required with existing systems. It provided us with flexibility of using an integration component or write your own. It is built on Java platform, so it's easy to train the existing developers to use WCS.
I would look at all the integration points and publishing. Also I would look at the caching capacity, and how well the site performs with a high number of visitors. Lastly the most important one, is it cloud ready? Does it support the cloud and multi - scaling? Does it come with a service module inbuilt, so that it can be used as service by other platforms?
August 03, 2015
Oracle WebCenter Sites: An Inside View
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Oracle WebCenter Sites is a robust and flexible content management system. Typicallly used for external facing web sites, WCS provides powerful tools for business users to manage web content separately from managing the actual presentation of that content. For businesses wanting to provide a more personalized web experience for their end users, WCS also provides excellent tools for managing segmentation and personalization. And most importantly for many business users, a solid implementation gives business users a large degree of autonomy from IT when publishing new or updated content to meet immediate needs of the end user.
- Contributor UI: A robust, intuitive and customizable user interface for business content contributors, with in-context editing and preview capabilities. This allows a contributor to preview the content without leaving WCS and also allows the contributor to edit content directly in the context of the web page.
- Application Integration: The Web Experience Management (WEM) framework allows easy integration with external applications needed in the content lifecycle. Applications such as cloud-based media or document libraries can be conveniently accessed within the context of WCS during content creation, vastly simplifying the contributor's workflow.
- Digital Experience Marketing: On top of the CMS, organizations can optimize the experience for end users by providing personalization and segmentation rules to content, making content much more relevant and engaging to customers.
- Release Management: It is difficult to group content together and manage as a unit. This is most noticeable with content like promotions, where there might be a number of different types of content that need to be published at the same time when the promotion takes effect.
- Development Patterns: On the technical side, a lot of the code is contained in JSP files, using a combination of JSP tags and scriptlets. This can be tedious to manage from development perspective, though with some thought, an MVC-type pattern can be achieved. However, with every new release, the WCS product team continues to deliver a better environment for developers.
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- More efficient use of content (i.e. write once, use in multiple places)
- Faster Time to Publish on time sensitive content (stock market news, breaking announcements)
- More easily target content to specific segments of customer base
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Premium support comes as part of the Oracle licensing agreement
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My interactions with Oracle Support for WCS have been nothing but outstanding. The team is professional and quick to respond to initial requests as well as ongoing troubleshooting to resolve issues.