Oracle Beehive updates provide added functionality

The new updated version of Oracle Beehive focuses on unification within organizations, easing collaboration and system management.

Beehive provides users with wikis, team calendaring, RSS support, contextual search and advanced file sharing, which can be set up by the team or centrally provisioned with no pre-existing portal requirements.

Simon Ellis, chief technical officer for Calsoft, spoke positively on YouTube about the product, saying:

“The real beauty of Oracle Beehive is that you can continue to use the front end tools you've been using, so it's been negligible in terms of the training needed.

“Oracle is one of the leading collaboration platforms in the market place.

“Oracle beehive allows us to have global collaboration; teams working together on complex implementations across different timezones to improve productivity and the quality delivered to customers.”

David Gilmore, senior vice president of Collaboration Technologies at Oracle, highlighted the need for smoother collaboration within organizations to save time and resources:

“As organizations rely increasingly on collaboration software to drive both communication and business process efficiency, repackaged groupware and point solutions are proving to be costly and difficult to manage on an enterprise scale.

“With its unified platform, Oracle Beehive provides enterprise-ready collaboration in a single, easy-to-manage system with a low total cost of ownership.”
Gilmore went on to explain in detail some of the problems that Oracle Beehive helps to eradicate:

“The process worker… typically working with a business application such as a call center, roll up of general ledger, HCM systems, …is engaged in a process that somebody else has designed but inevitably you hit some problems.

“We have to step out of that process, go over here, collaborate, leverage other users, and be in the much more fluid world of user to user publishing, content creation and interaction.

“That process of disengaging, collaborating and reengaging is very awkward in many situations, and there is a huge amount of frictional loss that happens back and forth across that boundary.”

Beehive can be deployed on premise or through Oracle On Demand as Software as a Service.