New Features in Oracle Beehive Release 1 (1.5)
Now that Beehive 1.5.1 has been released, us techie type people are busy downloading, finding a fresh database to install it against and a spare mid tier with 1922MB memory to install on, but what can everyone else do while they wait…
How about spending some time to look at what we get in the 1.5.1 release. Taken from the New Features Section in the Oracle Beehive 1.5.1 Documentation on OTN.
- Oracle Beehive Extensions for Explorer – Now you’re able to directly access workspaces and workspace content through Microsoft® Windows® Explorer, and now with the conferencing component, you can fire up a conference call based on the document you’re looking at… like this:
- Oracle Beehive Workspaces Client – This is the bit I want to play with more later, but just a quick blurb… actually, let’s take it straight from the documentation:
“Oracle Beehive Workspaces Client is a Web-based client that leverages dynamic, wiki page technology to support team collaboration activities in Oracle Beehive workspaces. Through Oracle Beehive Workspaces Client, users can perform a variety of collaborative tasks on a workspace-by-workspace basis, including create and manage workspaces, wiki pages, documents, and calendar events, to name a few.”
I like it. Here’s a screenshot of one I’m building within Oracle.
- Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook Enhancements – Further improvements to the OBEO, document management, serverside rules, profile migration, etc.
- Oracle Beehive Zimbra Enhancements – Zimbra 5.0.9 Web client is released with Beehive 1.5.1, which supports the latest browsers for Firefox, Safari and IE. Tasks have also been added, and there is now support for shared folders and workspace folders.
- Enhancements for Mobile Device Support – Pocket Outlook on Microsoft Windows Mobile enhancements.
- Oracle Beehive Conferencing Enhancements – Recording conferences and document sharing.
- Other Features and Enhancements – A bunch of other features and enhancements to find…including the new logo.
You can read all the details using the above links.
As mentioned earlier, in the next exciting episode I’ll be configuring and building out some workspaces examples to get a feel of how this community hub / portal / wiki / dynamic / collaborative piece of the puzzle that is Oracle could fit into a company’s IT infrastructure.
Gavin
