Social Networking Services - Enables users to maximize productivity through collaboration. • People Connection – Enables users to assemble their business networks like linked-in. • Discussions Provides the ability to create and participate in threaded discussion. This is an embedded version of Forums provided by
Jive Software. • Announcements Enables users to post, personalize, and manage announcements. • Instant Messaging and Presence (IMP) Provides the ability to observe the online presence status of other authenticated users (whether online, offline, busy, or idle) and to contact them. • Blog Enables blogging functionality within the context of an application. • Wiki Self-service, community, oriented-content publishing and sharing.
Shared Services - Provides features for both social networking and personal productivity. • Documents Provides content management and storage capabilities, including content upload, file and folder creation and management, file check out, versioning, and so on. WebCenter Portal includes a restricted-use license of Oracle's enterprise content management product called WebCenter Content (formerly known as Universal Content Management). • Links Provides the ability to view, access, and associate related information; for example, you can link to a solution document from a discussion thread. • Lists Enables users to create, publish, and manage lists. (Available only in WebCenter Spaces). • Page Provides the ability to create and manage pages at run time. • Tags Provides the ability to assign one or more personally relevant keywords to a given page or document. This feature is similar to the del.cio.us website. • Events Provides group calendars, which users can use to schedule meetings, appointments, and any other type of team get-together. This feature requires deployment of a separate calendaring server, which may be Oracle Beehive or Microsoft Exchange (Available only in WebCenter Spaces).
Personal Productivity Services Focuses on the requirements of an individual, rather than a group. • Mail Provides integration with IMAP and SMTP mail servers to enable users to perform simple mail functions such as viewing, reading, creating, and deleting messages, creating messages with attachments, and replying to or forwarding existing messages. • Notes Provides the ability to "jot down" and retain quick bits of personally relevant information (Available only in WebCenter Spaces). • Recent Activities Provides a summary view of recent changes to documents, discussions, and announcements. • RSS Provides the ability to publish content from WebCenter Web 2.0 Services as news feeds in RSS 2.0 and Atom 1.0 formats. • Search Provides the ability to search tags, services, an application, or an entire site. This makes use of a license limited version of Oracle's Secure Enterprise Search (SES) product. • Worklist Provides a personal, at-a-glance view of business processes that require attention. These can include a request for document review and other types of business process that come directly from enterprise applications. == Official and de facto standards support ==