Portals ONgroup, June 2003

MultiValue API available with Oracle9i AS UniVerse, UniData, PICK and Prime INFORMATION applications run on Oracle 9iAS Oracle9i Application Server when licensed through ONgroup or its distributors now includes a MultiValue API. Dozens of large organizations, including VARs, government agencies, universities, healthcare and financial institutions, and Fortune 100 companies are redeploying mission-critical, MultiValue applications on Oracle. Few if any changes to the MultiValue applications are required to make the transition from PICK or U2 to Oracle. Oracle Corporation in partnership with ONgroup is providing a MultiValue feature set with Oracle9iAS that supports applications developed on the common MultiValue platforms. BASIC Programs, Dictionaries, Paragraphs, PROCS, Sentences, Commands such as COPY, LIST, GET.LIST, CREATE.FILE, DELETE, SELECT, SORT and other common MultiValue features are implemented and work the same as they do in your MultiValue environment. Oracle9iAS offers a UniObjects-compatible interface as well; so, graphical applications that use the UniObjects feature set of U2 will continue to work the same after the transition to oracle. With Oracle9iAS, the firewall between the MultiValue environments and the relational world is gone. Now your existing MV applications can run on Oracle and use industry standard tools such as Crystal Reports and JAVA to create new applications and update the old. Our last briefing summarized the benefits of Oracle9i AS Security. Today's subject: Portals  About Oracle 9iAS Portal  According to the American Heritage Dictionary, a portal is "A doorway, entrance or gate, an entrance or a means of entrance: the local library, a portal of knowledge"; " A website considered as an entry point to other websites...". "Oracle Portal is a browser based, self-service, content publishing and development solution that allows end users and web developers to build data driven web sites. Portal gives content creators the tools needed to publish their own documents on the Web, by directly editing Web site content from within their Web browsers. Oracle Portal also lets you decentralized content management, while maintaining centralized control of your Internet infrastructure", Orafaq. Why a portal vs. a home page? A home page is all things to all people, while a portal--especially a vertical portal, generally includes customization. An end user, therefore, has access to "[electronic information and services available to the individual, specific to their role in the organization, presented in an accessible, secure, personalized, customizable, and integrated fashion]". Northeastern University Enterprise Portal Study shows ROI Can Top 300% Enterprise portals are increasingly viewed by organizations of all sizes as key IT infrastructure. The right portal architecture creates value across an organization by providing a manageable foundation for secure on-line collaboration, information delivery, and process automation. A recent study by The FactPoint Group has found the enterprise portal to increase productivity and save on IT cost by: Web site consolidation Single sign-on and password administration User interface development Application integration Business intelligence Self-service content publishing Efficient search Self-service applications Why Oracle9iAS Portal? The Portal acts as the single source of interaction with corporate data and the focal point for conducting day-to-day business. Oracle 9i AS Portal offers the following benefits: Wizard based tools: Build content rich-pages, no programming is required. Currently there are over 50 partners in the Portal Partner Initiative and 250 portlets in the Portal Catalog. This growing library of prebuilt portlets provides a variety of options allowing you to select the most appropriate approach. Integrated content management: Manage, publish and share content with other users without the help of a Webmaster. Built-in integration; Access and interact with enterprise applications such as SAP, PeopleSoft, and Siebel. Centralized management: Allow administration of the entire portal environment using a Web browser. Open standards: Enable data exchange between the portal, other portals and applications. Standards are fully embraced: HTTP, HTML, XML, SOAP, J2EE. Integrated support for the WebDAV standard allows business users to publish content directly from their favorite desktop tools. Access any information from any application or data source. Where coding is required, an open infrastructure and an on-line development community give developers the information, code, and tools they need to create new, portlet-enabled applications and to tightly integrate their existing applications. By investing in the Oracle Database, you have entrusted your business to it unmatched scalability, security and availability. Now you can implement the most reliable infrastructure for accessing and managing your critical information and applications. As an Oracle Database customer, you can easily integrate Oracle9iAS Portal into your existing infrastructure which makes it the ideal enterprise solution for Oracle-based installations. More than 3,500 organizations around the world have improved productivity and streamlined business processes with Oracle9i AS Portal. Benefit from Built-in Business Intelligence Many portal implementations require tools to create detailed analyses and reports on enterprise data. Pre-integrated business intelligence components within Oracle9iAS support ad-hoc query, reporting, and analysis of enterprise data. While many options and product solutions exist for customers seeking to build an enterprise portal solution, only Oracle9i AS Portal offers the right combination of features, technology and integration capabilities that are needed for a successful deployment. Click on this link to learn more about Oracle9iAS Portal.  How does this benefit UniVerse, UniData, PICK and Prime INFORMATION developers?  You get the best of all worlds. Your valuable, proven, stable and mature MultiValue business systems are executed on Oracle9iAS, unchanged. And, you get to use the features of Oracle9iAS including standard tools and solutions to maximize your IT resources. You can provide your organization with the best-of-breed technology available. Oracle 9iAS and MultiValue Applications is a briefing provided by ONgroup