The 2021 Roadmap for WebCenter

In February, Oracle held an official webinar outlining their planned development efforts (and recent releases) within the WebCenter Content sphere. In this blog, we will be looking into the most recent WebCenter updates, and updates that will follow in the future.

What Customers are Looking for in WebCenter in terms of features—

• Easy lift and shift to the cloud
• Better performance with scalability and manageability
• Ability to manage large document sets (content items in millions/billions)
• More integration options
• OCR capabilities and auto-indexing
• Better UI and collaboration capabilities

The Direction WebCenter Content is heading in Based on Feedback from the user community—

• Core product improvements
• Inter-op with cloud
• Management ease

What is New in 2020/2021—

Product	Item	Do we have a blog about it?
WebCenter Content	Elasticsearch	https://inspiredecm.com/elasticsearch-for-webcenter-content-explained/
WebCenter Content	Desktop Client for WCC Admin Applets	https://inspiredecm.com/new-client-for-webcenter-content-admin-applets/
All WebCenter	TDE Database Encryption	https://inspiredecm.com/encrypt-webcenter-schemas-with-tde/
WebCenter Enterprise Capture	Office 365 Support for Capture via OAuth	https://inspiredecm.com/how-to-connect-webcenter-enterprise-capture-import-processor-to-office-365/
WebCenter Forms Recognition	New WFR AP Packaged Projects. Manage projects on a database for additional security and multi-tenant support.	https://inspiredecm.com/webcenter-forms-recognition-new-release-ap-packaged-project-2803/
All WebCenter	Support for Oracle Autonomous Database in cloud	https://inspiredecm.com/benefits-of-using-webcenter-content-with-oracle-autonomous-database/
All WebCenter	SAML Based SSO (Oracle IDCS)	https://inspiredecm.com/benefits-of-integrating-oracle-identity-cloud-service-idcs-with-webcenter-content/
WebCenter Content	WebCenter Content Docker Image	https://inspiredecm.com/the-benefits-of-running-webcenter-content-on-docker/

Upcoming—

Product	Item
WebCenter Content	Kubernetes based image for better manageability
WebCenter Content	Auto-scaling of WebCenter Content Kubernetes environment
WebCenter Content	Elasticsearch new features: Metadata mappingStop wordsScoring and relevance
WebCenter Content	Rest API Support for better integration
WebCenter Content	New Archiver for Framework folder migration
WebCenter Forms Recognition	Importing of documents through Rest API
WebCenter Forms Recognition	Database 19c support
WebCenter Imaging	New Imaging Interface – No applet dependency – Unified viewer
WebCenter Imaging	Dashboard/Report for AP Solutions Accelerator
WebCenter Enterprise Capture	Email import support of OAuth for Gmail
WebCenter Enterprise Capture	Improvement on barcode recognition in Linux
WebCenter Enterprise Capture	E-Invoicing – XML-based invoice processing
WebCenter Enterprise Capture	Import from WCC Archiver – Migration

To be Released—

Product	Item
WebCenter Content	Support OCI object storage for unlimited storage
WebCenter Content	Support for very large dID
WebCenter Content	Remove upload/download applet dependency
WebCenter Content	Hybrid or complete migrations to OCE
WebCenter Content	Quarterly bundle patches addressing fixes and enhancement requests
WebCenter Content	WebCenter Content in the marketplace – One-click instance creation
WebCenter Forms Recognition	New WebCenter Forms recognition with better OCR and extraction capabilities
WebCenter Forms Recognition	Supporting capability to work with Capture cloud
WebCenter Imaging	Options to re-arrange the order of the fields
WebCenter Imaging	Complete AP invoice solution in the cloud as PaaS
WebCenter Enterprise Capture	Arabic language OCR support
WebCenter Enterprise Capture	Enhancing e-invoicing capability

Ultimately, all of these updates are leading up to the next major release of WebCenter Content (14c), which is anticipated to launch in mid to late 2022.

Stay tuned with our blogs here at Inspired ECM, where we will keep you up to date on the most recent WebCenter developments. Is your organization interested in any these new features? Contact Inspired ECM to learn how we can help your organization tackle ECM-related projects.