Comparison of Oracle Portals
Dec 16th 2008vesterliOracle Portal & Oracle WebCenter & Oracle WebCenter Interaction & Oracle WebLogic Portal
In one of my presentations at this year’s UKOUG Conference, I made a comparison of the five Oracle portal products:
- WebCenter Services
- WebCenter Suite
- Oracle Portal
- WebCenter/AquaLogic Interaction
- Weblogic Portal
The comparison included framework capabilities, content management and built-in functionality, and I came to the following conclusion:
The evaluation applies to the currently shipping 10g products. The WebCenter Suite license includes WebLogic Portal as a separate product - for clarity, the line for WebCenter Suite evaluates only the core WebCenter functionality and WebLogic Portal is evaluated on it’s own.Oracle Portal is licensed with Oracle Application Server SE1, SE and EE. AquaLogic Interaction cannot be licensed separately except by existing BEA customers that need more licenses. WebLogic Portal can be licensed separately or as part of the WebCenter Suite.Agree? Disagree? Feel free to comment here (registration required) or by e-mail to sten@vesterli.com.
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geoffgarcia on 05 Jan 2009 at 6:38 pm #
Hey Sten,
Any chance of making a followup post where you outline how you came up with your results? In particular I’m curious what the differences in “built in functionality” are, and the framework component also!
You must have done some exhaustive research so it would be a shame to not share it all!
Thanks,
Geoff
Also the blog software you are using doesn’t work in Firefox for me (I’m on version 3.1b2), but works fine in IE
vesterli on 14 Jan 2009 at 10:53 pm #
I haven’t had the time to write up a white paper of my findings - but there is a little info in the presentation slides. See http://vesterli.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/oracle_portal_products_sten_vesterli_dec_2008_compressed.pdf.
I hope to be blogging about the details later.
BTW, thanks for the comment about my blogging software; I have a WordPress update on my to-do list
angenz on 27 Jul 2009 at 2:42 am #
hye…im ikma from malaysia..i wanna ask regarding to weblogic portal..
can weblogic portal be integrate with SQL, Siebel, Oracle and SAP database?if it can be,can u tell me how the process run and what shud i use in the integration process?
vesterli on 27 Jul 2009 at 8:21 pm #
Hi Ikma,
You can integrate all of the Oracle portal products (including Oracle WebLogic Portal) with relational databases (Oracle, MS SQL Server, etc) as well as applications (Siebel, Oracle E-business Suite, SAP).
However, the different Oracle portal products have different strengths and weaknesses, so you need to think about what you are trying to achieve.
In very general terms
- Oracle WebCenter is Oracle’s strategic portal product (but is expensive)
- Oracle Portal has low license cost and is good for small and medium size portals
- Oracle WebLogic portal is a strong product for high-volume, consumer-facing portals
You can find lots of technical information about all of these on the Oracle Technology Network (http://otn.oracle.com).
If you would like to discuss your specific requirements in detail, I run a mentoring programme (http://www.vesterli.com/mentor) where you pay a fixed monthly fee for unlimited access to me by e-mail.
angenz on 28 Jul 2009 at 2:33 am #
ok,thanks for your info.
and actually, whats the differences between sharepoint server and weblogic portal? i mean, the comaprison btween these 2 platform.
i still searching for that info till now.
but i didn’t get anything.
plz help me regading to this problem.
vesterli on 28 Jul 2009 at 8:01 pm #
Unless you have very special requirements, both MS Sharepoint and the Oracle portal products can fulfill your portal needs. Which you choose will normally depend on the skills you have in your organization:
- If you are a Microsoft shop with .NET programming skills, go with SharePoint
- If you are a Java shop, go with one of the Oracle products (or another JEE portal)