Welcome to OpenWorld! OpenWorld 2012 got underway today with a series of meetings with the
members of the WebCenter Customer Advisory Board. Led by the WebCenter Product Management team,
these meetings are a great way for the product team and customers to directly
interact and discuss real-life business challenges, product details and to
discuss upcoming features and functionality.
This year, board members participated in discussions around
live demos around product enhancements that will be featured throughout the
coming week. Highlights included a variety of new mobile
and social solutions, a great new user interface for WebCenter Content plus new
Portal and Sites functionality that makes the experience for the everyday user
a lot more pleasant.
The day kicked off with Roel Stalman, VP of Product
Management, giving a detailed overview of what’s new in WebCenter. Given all the improvements to discuss, this session went
over 2 hours! Roel showcased the brand new UI for Content, Portal and
Sites. He also gave live demos of the
new mobile apps for WebCenter Content, Portal and the Oracle Social Network. The attendees then broke into sub-groups in order to deep-dive with Product Management for the Portal, Sites, and Content product areas on specific functionality and application integrations.
If you are here in San Francisco this week for OpenWorld, I
definitely recommend stopping by the WebCenter area in the Moscone West Exhibition
Hall to see some of this new functionality for yourself. And be sure to check out the WebCenter
sessions throughout the week as those give us a chance to discuss direction and
strategy, answer your questions and get your feedback and ideas.
For
those of you could not make it to OpenWorld this year, we miss you! You can stay in touch with what is happening
via this blog and by following #oow and #webcenter on Twitter. Additionally, we
will be rolling out details on upcoming products and release info over the coming
months via this blog and web seminars. Stay tuned!