Experience with webcenter spaces

[Manish Rungta]

Hi,

I'm starting on designing a new  portal application on webenter platform and here comes the question again?

Portal framework or spaces?

In this particular case, i'm inclining towards spaces , since both budget and time is limited.

Portal is going to be an extranet available to  all partners and distributors. Though company has different portals right now for different kind of distributors and partners, and this would be continued in future. Portal also requires integration with EBS and CRM and few other custom application ( might be just links or portelts).

What has been the experience of Community on Webcenter spaces?  How easy/tough it is to customize webcenter spaces and challenges faced during a webcenter spaces implementation project?

Thanks
Manish

[Yannick Ongena]

Manish,

 

If you are just starting the project you might have a chat with some of the Oracle PM's to see if you can enter the beta program.

WebCenter PS7 will solve a lot of the issues that you are struggling with. It will make the choice between Spaces and Portal framework almost unnecessary.

It also includes great tools to integrate external data providers like EBS and CRM.

 

Regards

Yannick

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[Selva Ganesh]

Hi Manish,

I would prefer to go for portal framework as it gives lots of flexibility in customizing & skinning. You can also consume all those spaces features using OOTB task flows from webcenter libraries.

If your project doesn't require lots of layout/skinning changes & requires collaboration features for which you dont want to spend your development time, then you can go for spaces.

Thanks,
Selva.

Manish

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[Yannick Ongena]

Manish,

Spaces is just a monster to customize and difficult when it comes to custom development, source control, propagation to different environments and so on.

 

The more custom development you need to do or change default behaviour in out of the box functionality, the more difficult it gets in Spaces and the easier it will be with portal.

 

From what I understood and saw about WebCenter PS7 at Open World this year, WebCenter PS7 should put Spaces into Framework so the nice features you have in Spaces are available in the framework as well so you don't really have to choose between spaces or framework anymore.

 

Other features that could be useful for you is the data presenter with the data adapters. It allows you to compose data elements from data providers. This is a web based tool so no development required. By using data templates you allow the data to be displayed in a way you want. I even believe there was an out of the box data adapter that will connect to EBS. This way you can display information from EBS into your portal without having to write any single line of code...

You can of course write your own data providers so you can integrate with other 3th party applications.

 

Regards

Yannick

 

From: Manish Rungta [mailto:rungta...@gmail.com]
Sent: 13 December 2012 17:21
To: yannick...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [WebCenter EMG] Experience with webcenter spaces

 

Hi Yannick,

Thanks for response. Can you give specific examples of tools that would be available to connect with EBS/CRM.

I'm looking for a ready made application which can be accessed over internet for external users. In my last project i did use Webcenter portal framework only and connected with EBS (displaying orders, invoices etc) using pl/sql api's or EO and VO's.

In my current project, company has acquired several other small competitors who have their own extranets currently. As of now each acquired company wants to maintain their own branding , but in future they'll go for single branding and theme. I was thinking multiple spaces for each acquired company(5 of them), connecting to EBS/CRM through taskflows or portlets as my design.

Can you comment in light of what is coming in future? Why everbody is so afraid of Spaces? :)

Thanks
manish

[Andre Araujo]

"Spaces is just a monster to customize and difficult when it comes to custom development, source control, propagation to different environments and so on."

 Indeed!!! Just have a chat with one of the Oracle PM's and take a look at the PS7 which is scheduled to be released in January if I'm not wrong...

Andre Araújo 

 

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[Eddie Phan]

Hi All,

This topic caught my eye quickly, as my client is in the analysis phase of redevelopment of their Intranet site. They are more looking into a Social Intranet. 

How would i go about contact the Oracle PM's to try my luck in entering the WebCenter PS7 Beta program?

Thanks in advance guys,

Eddie

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Thanks,

EP

[Husain Dalal]

It will be best to contact you Oracle account/sales team to find out more about the PS7 beta program.

 

About Spaces vs Portal: In my experience one should go for Spaces if one of the major requirements is to create “communities/groups” with each group needing their own set of collaboration pages. Sort of like google groups with each group secluded from others and managed independently.

In almost all other cases Custom Portal is a better choice. It gives more options and flexibility in development, deployment, customization etc.

 

Hope it helps.

 

Husain