Portal Architect's Toolbox (Continued)
Oracle: Declarative Portal Publishing
Oracle's Architect's Toolbox
Oracle seeks to extend its application server further into the enterprise and deeper into targeted verticals with portal server and integration extensions to its standards-based J2EE application server. It positions its portal technology as the most open, productive, and complete portal solution. Recent initiatives place emphasis on pre-integration with out-of-the-box portlets and enabling business-level development using declarative tools and easy Web publishing. Oracle also supports move-to-process portals with the ability to orchestrate interactions among portlets. The company's strength in mobile development is supported with the portal's multimodal capability for device-dependent data presentation.
Technology
Oracle9 iAS Portal is an integral component of the Oracle9i Application Server, using its directory services, Web cache, J2EE services, and business intelligence services (see Figure 4). The portal architecture includes a highly tuned, multithreaded servlet engine to retrieve portlet content from the portal repository, manage caching, assemble portal pages, and deliver completed pages. The portal framework provides additional services including single sign-on, content classification; enterprise search; directory integration; and access control.
Product
Oracle9iAS Portal Release 2 is a browser-based environment for the development, deployment, administration, and configuration of enterprise class portals. Oracle9iAS Portal incorporates a complete portal-building framework with self-service publishing features to make creating and managing the information accessed within your portal simple and easy. A wide variety of portal interfaces and configurations are possible, from a simple departmental-level publishing portal to an Internet-accessible portal that serves both customers and employees. Tight integration with Oracle9i Application Server and Oracle9i database ensures that the solution can scale to an enterprise-class audience. New OmniPortlet subcomponent enables power users to publish data from diverse data sources quickly and easily using a variety of layouts.
Product feature overview: Oracle 9iAS Portal Technical Note
Application
Emerson Motor Technologies applied Oracle9i Application Server Portal to transform its intranet into an enterprise portal and as a result realized measurable benefits across the company. For example, using Oracle9i Application Server Portal to coordinate employee travel reservations, Emerson Motor Technologies decreased the number of travel agents from 20 to 1 and attained a 20 percent cost savings over a two-year period. The company also realized a 50 percent savings in paper costs and a $90,000 savings in office supplies over a nine-month period by using the Oracle portal capabilities to streamline purchase orders.
Case Study: Forrester Research Award Recognizes Oracle9i Application Server for Delivering Solid Cost and Performance Results to Emerson Motor Technologies
Analyst's View
One of the most feature-complete platforms on the market—including an application server, portal server, development suite, BI tools, and an integration offering—presents a compelling alternative to offerings from entrenched vendors including BEA and IBM. Integrated solution with holistic approach to infrastructure will be appealing to organizations that don't mind purchasing a predominantly single-vendor solution, or that have already deployed Oracle infrastructure.
Doculabs "Perspectives," October 2002
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