Oracle announces general availability collaboration suite

Oracle announced the general availability of Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g, a comprehensive suite of collaboration products that offers robust functionality for businesses to better manage and deliver content and communications throughout the enterprise. Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g adds compelling enhancements to Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g Content Services, Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g Real-Time Collaboration and Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g Unified Messaging, and introduces new features with Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g Workspaces. Built on Oracle Database 10g and Oracle Application Server 10g, Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g is the first collaboration offering in the market to support seamless management of all structured and unstructured enterprise information on a single architecture. As a member of the Oracle Fusion Middleware family of products, Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g is designed for seamless integration into business applications and processes to drive greater levels of organizational efficiency. This enables enterprises to improve agility, enable faster decision-making, and reduce costs and risks to diverse technology environments. "Oracle Collaboration Suite has raised the bar for collaborative software by enabling users to manage and deliver the right information to the right people in the context of their current activity," said Greg Doherty, vice president, Oracle Collaboration Suite. "The integrated tools enable users to communicate from anywhere, at any time and with any device-making collaboration a far more valuable corporate asset." "Businesses are hungry for collaboration tools that enable them to focus on connecting internal teams and communities, while processing content and information in a secure environment," said Mark Levitt, research vice president, IDC. "Such tools are vital for organizations in moving toward contextual collaboration and the enterprise workplace." "Because of our expanding mission requirements and technological growth, we needed a solution that delivered secure user integration across department components, product lines and technologies," said George Albinson, director of knowledge management and chief information officer at the US Army, RDECOM, ARDEC. "Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g offered us the perfect fit for an environment based on individual scientists and engineers who work on multiple Integrated Product Teams for a wide variety of customers. Especially attractive to us is Oracle Collaboration Suite's ease of use and the security offered by Oracle applications and database products. It is an ideal platform for secure, controlled access with process and product innovation and integration."

Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g Content Services
Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g Content Services offers enhanced content management functionality for all users throughout the enterprise. Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g Content Services is a robust platform priced and designed for enterprise-wide records management, business process automation and integrated file and document management. With unstructured data accounting for more than 80 percent of existing enterprise data, Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g Content Services is the first offering that enables customers to manage unstructured data and mitigate risk across all of the users in an enterprise while improving productivity and reducing costs.
Formerly known as Oracle Files, Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g Content Services enables customers to gain control of their enterprise information and policies to support regulatory compliance and mitigate risks associated with poorly managed content. Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g Content Services offers enhanced file management and sharing capabilities and adds new document lifecycle and records management functionalities and business process automation capabilities.
Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g Workspaces
Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g Workspaces introduces new capabilities for team collaboration that enable project teams to easily organize and manage documents, messages, meetings, tasks and discussions within a cohesive secure environment dedicated to a specific project or process. Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g Workspaces leverages all the services of Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g, including email, calendar, content services, discussions, presence, web conferencing, and instant messaging.
Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g Workspaces provides enterprise users with tools to be more productive when engaging in project-based work than with the traditional tools like email. Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g Workspaces captures in one location all activities, discussions, meetings, actions, tasks and emails that revolve around a document. This enables users to capture, manage, find and utilize all the knowledge involving the document. At the same time, Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g Workspaces leverages the power of the Oracle Database 10g to manage unstructured information and ensure that assets are properly managed for policy, records and as corporate knowledge assets.