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—
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.