Beijing October 21 noon, Oracle executives on Thursday announced a new social networking software for more details. Oracle OpenWorld conference earlier this month released on this product.

Oracle social network (hereinafter referred to as “OSN”) is Oracle’s new public cloud computing as part of the product is expected to become Salesforce Chatter enterprise social networking software such as a major competitor.

Oracle’s senior director of product management Andy Kershaw (Andy Kershaw) said on Thursday, OSN is Oracle WebCenter technology based on user participation part of the platform, the rest of the platform including websites, portals and content. He said the company currently is very intuitive to use collaboration tools. For example, a session may start from the instant messaging tool, but then one session may be conducted via e-mail reply to the other party to provide is stored in another system document.

Kershaw said: “As time goes on, to understand how to make a decision, to share with others is becoming increasingly difficult decision-making process. “OSN is to solve this problem. The tool integrates instant messaging, content sharing, integration with other enterprise applications, activity streams, and search tools. Overall, OSN goal is to provide interference-free social networks. Kershaw said: “The most important management concern, the deployment of social networks will affect the production efficiency. “

Oracle said, OSN will be available in mid-2012. Oracle launched the first cloud-based version, and then will launch pre-paid version. Both versions of the OSN basically the same, but slightly different in the application. Kershaw said: “The pre-paid version of some of the features will be stronger. Relative to the cloud computing version, pre-paid version can be better integrated with the telephone system. “

Oracle also said, OSN initially with Oracle Fusion applications package with the new release, but can be used alone or integrated with other applications. Kershaw said, OSN, a major purpose is to enable enterprises and other applications “social-oriented.” However, OSN will only support the Oracle database.

Kershaw said that users in the use of OSN and also having to give up previous collaboration tools. He said: “Currently, Outlook still many companies for collaboration client choice. We can carry out complex integration with Outlook, to help all employees to work through the OSN. “In addition, OSN will be for the Android, iPad and iPhone platforms offer a variety of different versions.

OSN into the enterprise collaboration market, Oracle is the latest step. Oracle had also introduced InterOffice, Oracle collaboration toolkit, and Beehive products. Oracle OpenWorld conference in 2008 on a high-profile release Beehive, but failed to attract too much attention to the market.

article from: Sina science and technology

(Editor: Zhang Yong)