anyone can build a site, even you! create a microsite with oracle sites cloud service

Raastech, Inc.2201 Cooperative Way, Suite 600Herndon, VA [email protected]

Anyone Can Build a Site, Even You!

Create a Microsite with Oracle Sites Cloud Service

Monday, April 03, 201711:00am - 12:00pm

Session 430Jasmine A

© Raastech, Inc. 2017 | All rights reserved. Slide 2 of 63@Raastech

Agenda

1. Introduction

2. History

3. Getting Started – My Use Case

4. Analytics

5. Desktop Sync

6. Mobile App

7. Other Challenges

8. Pricing

9. Summary


About Me

▪ Ahmed Aboulnaga @Ahmed_Aboulnaga

▪ 18+ years Oracle experience

▪ Oracle ACE, OCE, OCA

▪ Author, Blogger, Presenter, Tweeter


About Raastech

▪ Small systems integrator founded in 2009

▪ Headquartered in the Washington DC area

▪ Specializes in Oracle Fusion Middleware

▪ Oracle Gold Partner

▪ Oracle SOA Specialized


HistoryFatwire

Oracle Fatwire

Oracle WebCenter Sites

Oracle SitesCloud Service

Oracle Content &Experience Cloud Service

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Acquired by Oracle in 2011

December 2015

February 2017

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What is Oracle Sites Cloud Service?

▪ Intuitively assemble content, applications, and processes to build rich

community and marketing sites

Engagement.

Rapidly assemble rich digital

experiences for marketing sites,

communities, and other business

needs using themes, components,

and applications.

Collaboration.

Collaborate with internal and

external teams in creating content,

building sites, and coordinating site updates.

Governance.

View, manage, and administer all of

your community and marketing

microsites in one console.

Extensibility.

Integrate third-party applications

and create new custom themes to

meet specific business needs.


▪ If you want to publish content to internal or external constituents,

you can use Oracle Sites Cloud Service to simplify content sharing

and collaboration

What is Oracle Sites Cloud Service?


What is Oracle Content & Experience Cloud Service?

▪ Oracle Content and Experience Cloud is a unified content hub that

enables you to drive omnichannel content management and

accelerate experience delivery


In English…

▪ Oracle Content & Experience Cloud =

+ Oracle Documents Cloud

+ Oracle Sites Cloud

+ Oracle Social Network Cloud


Third Party Sites

https://cpicazo.wordpress.com/2017/02/11/new-content-experience-cloud-service/

http://www.ether-solutions.co.uk/en/cloud/oracle-sites-cloud

http://www.doag.org/formes/pubfiles/8567420/docs/Konferenz/2016/vortraege/Middleware/2016-MW-Kolja_Eigl-Oracle_Sites_Cloud_Service-Praesentation.pdf


Oracle Marketing

▪ “With Oracle Sites Cloud Service business users with absolutely

no website experience can rapidly assemble rich, interactive

engagement microsites for marketing and communities.”

▪ “Enables marketers and business users to easily create and

manage contextually relevant social and interactive online

experiences across multiple channels on a global scale to drive

sales and loyalty.”

▪ “Learn how to create a microsite quickly with Oracle Sites Cloud

Service powerful visual tools.”


What is this presentation about?

▪ Not about integration

▪ Simply about the creation of a micrositeWhat is a Microsite?

Tend to be rather simplistic and easier to navigate than regular website.

Generally an individual page or a small cluster of pages.

Example: Event page.


My Plan of Action

1. Provision the service

2. Create a microsite

3. Explore features


My Services Console

▪ Two provisioned services, surprisingly nothing called “Sites” or

“Content” or “Experience”


Oracle Documents Cloud Service

▪ “Content” tab, allows intuitive access to Oracle Documents


First time accessing “Sites”

▪ Click on “Experience”

▪ Install the default site templates


Create a Site


Creating Site…


Site Created Successfully


Site Not Available

▪ Navigate to:

https://documents-identitydomain.sites.us2.oraclecloud.com/GoSpeedRacer/

▪ Site doesn’t seem to be available


Change Site to Online Status

▪ Needed to set status to “online”


Wait

▪ Generally slow service (slow performing UI, slow publishing)


Sample Site


Add a Page


Edit Content


Add a Component


Add an Image from Oracle Documents


▪ Generally quick and easy to get a website up and running, as long as

you are content (no pun intended) with the built-in components

▪ Parts of interface not intuitive, reading the documentation is necessary

My Microsite


Get Started Documentation

▪ The “Get Started” documentation is very basic


Documentation

▪ Documentation is overall weak in content

▪ Text simply states the obvious with little value

▪ Lacks screenshots and visuals


Analytics Dashboard

▪ Limited analytics

dashboard with

little benefit


Analytics Download

▪ The downloaded data is identical to what is reflected on the dashboard


Documentation

▪ Documentation confirms the limited statistics that are currently available


▪ SEO settings is what would be expected

Search Engine Optimization (SEO)


Desktop Sync Installation

▪ “Oracle Documents for Windows” (also available in OS X) syncs up

local files to online storage

▪ Installation straightforward and simple


Desktop Sync, Works Well

▪ Syncing quick, even large files (e.g., 1 GB)

▪ No support for files greater than 2 GB

▪ Did not test extremely large data sets (> 90 GB)


Download Confusion

▪ Not sure what to

download when

searching the app

store

▪ Documentation was

not much help either


Downloading Mobile App

▪ All links available on the My Service settings


Downloading Mobile App

▪ Don’t delete the “Welcome”

email!


Oracle Documents Mobile

▪ Access to all documents

▪ Consistent look-and-feel

to web interface

▪ Lots of connectivity

issues and app crashing

initially, but resolved on

its own a few days later,

indicating no issue with

the mobile app itself


Oracle Sites (Experience?) Mobile

▪ Initially and consistently

“Cannot connect” error and

blank screens, but resolved

a few days later, indicating

no issue with the mobile app

itself

▪ No editing capability


Blank Home

▪ After messing around, lost the content on the “Home” page and took

a while to be able to figure out how to generate new content on it


Customization

▪ Unable to place the Twitter image on the right side of the text


Site Update History

▪ Any change to the site, whether major or minor, is a “site update”


Site Update History

▪ There is no way to view your update history, and no way to rollback

to an earlier update


Oracle CEC Pricing

▪ $150/month minimum, with 100GB of storage


Google Drive Pricing

▪ Sites is weak, but Documents is strong

▪ Considered taking advantage of service for double benefit of

storage, but not worth it compared to Google Drive’s current cost


Conclusion

▪ Initial mobile app instability was not an issue with mobile app, but

temporary issues with backend services

▪ Oracle Documents:

▪ Solid service

▪ Desktop Sync and mobile app are solid

▪ Oracle Sites/Experience:

▪ Slow, unintuitive in some aspects, key functionality are pretty basic

Considering Wix?• Wix is $25/month with 20GB of storage• For static microsites, Wix is superior and has a more intuitive UI• Limited integration capabilities


Conclusion

▪ Unexplored:

▪ Application Integration Framework (AIF)

▪ Oracle Process Cloud (PCS) integration

▪ REST APIs

▪ Custom components


References

▪ Content & Experience

https://cloud.oracle.com/en_US/documents

▪ Oracle Content & Experience Cloud Documentation

https://docs.oracle.com/en/cloud/paas/content-cloud/index.html

▪ How do I get started with Sites?

http://docs.oracle.com/en/cloud/paas/content-cloud/user/how-do-i-

get-started-sites.html

▪ Developing for Oracle Content and Experience Cloud

https://docs.oracle.com/en/cloud/paas/content-

cloud/developer/developing-oracle-content-and-experience-cloud.pdf

https://cloud.oracle.com/en_US/documents

https://docs.oracle.com/en/cloud/paas/content-cloud/index.html

http://docs.oracle.com/en/cloud/paas/content-cloud/user/how-do-i-get-started-sites.html

https://docs.oracle.com/en/cloud/paas/content-cloud/developer/developing-oracle-content-and-experience-cloud.pdf


Update: April 2017

▪ New features have been recently been added

▪ Documentation has been expanded

▪ Rumor has it that a major update will be occurring in April 2017


Contact Information

▪ Ahmed Aboulnaga

▪ Technical Director

▪ @Ahmed_Aboulnaga

▪ [email protected]


Q&A

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