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Oracle Portal Release 11 March 17, 2008

Posted by Manpreet Johal in Oracle Application Server, Portal.
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While reading Portal Statement of Direction, I found a glimpse of new features that Oracle has planned to introduce in next major release of Portal i.e. Portal Release 11.

For those who are curious, like me, to find out what Oracle is introducing in next release of Portal, I have summarised few of the new features in this post that I found useful:

  1. A two-step portal export/import model based on database links configured between source and target portal instances. It will really improve the code deployment process among Portal deployments.
  2. OmniPortlet will provide an advanced parameter form that allows you to populate a LOV dynamically based on a SQL query/database column. This feature is available in Portal 10g as well. However, it was not out of the box, it was required to tweak portlet configuration files, which was quite error prone. Another option is that develop your own custom parameter form based on PL/SQL. So, this new feature will definitely reduce the complexity and time involved in custom parameter form development.
  3. BPEL-based Process Content Routing and Approval – a useful feature for customers who are using Portal as a document/content management framework, whether they want to leverage simple workflow included in Portal or more complex approval chain based on Oracle BPEL Workflow.
  4. New list of portlets:
    1. Oracle Oracle Secure Enterprise Search (search submission and search results)
    2. Oracle BPEL (notifications, task analysis, reporting),
    3. Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (Siebel BI Tools)
    4. Hyperion System 9 BPM (Business Performance Management)
    5. Support for incorporation of portlets from Peoplesoft Applications, including PeopleSoft Version 9These features will allow customers to leverage Portal interface to publish dispersed content from various enterprise applications in personalized interface.

So next release of Oracle Portal will also enhance customers’ application integration experience where they want to extend Oracle Portal by building new presence-aware and context-aware applications on top of Portal layer, using Oracle WebCenter. Thus, adding Web 2.0 capabilities to Oracle Portal.

This is a glimpse based on Statement of Direction document, final product release will give us a real insight into what new features Portal Release 11 holds. Let us wait and watch.

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