Very fun stuff so far here at OpenWorld. Not too much to report from Sunday evening, basically the standard kick off stuff. Monday though was the start of sessions and when we started seeing what the former Stellent folks had been working on.
Some of the highlights so far:
1. There is a new web-based Site Studio editor coming out in the next few months to replace the existing activex one. Personally this was huge for me as the IE only aspect of the existing editor has always been a pain point with some of my clients who prefer macs. In general the editor was pretty slick. It appears as a pop-up when you click the in-context edit button and has a tabbed interface allowing you to contribute content on one tab and update metadata on the other. They’ve also added some additional validation which can be configured to require specific standards compliance when contributing.
2. The WCMA project appears to now be called Open WCM and it looks to be very cool. Not much of a demo this time, but more of an architectural discussion. The concept is to allow web content management delivery on any platform, using any language..hence the open part. In addition they also would like to take the content server out of the delivery environment, moving to more of a hybrid publishing model, which can be consumed by your web app.
3. During the digital asset management session, we got a nice demo of what you can do with the Folios component that was released just last week. Folios is very, very cool new feature which allows you to relate several content items together and have them become an additional new item in the system. You’re new folio then can be associated with metadata, sent through workflow for approvals or, depending on the formats, published as a compound document.
Also very cool are some of ideas on how they plan on integrating Content Server with the other application in the Fusion Middleware stack. There seems to be a big focus on delivering personalized, targeted content using Seibel profiles and Oracle’s Real Time decisioning application(part of the BI suite). All of that is just conjecture at this point, but still very cool to hear they were working on it.
