Anyone Can Build a Site, Even You! Create a Microsite with Oracle Sites Cloud Service

Raastech, Inc.
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Anyone Can Build a Site, Even You!
Create a Microsite with Oracle Sites Cloud Service
Monday, April 03, 2017
11:00am - 12:00pm
Session 430
Jasmine 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

History
Fatwire
Oracle Fatwire
Oracle WebCenter Sites
Oracle Sites
Cloud Service
Oracle Content &
Experience Cloud Service
CloudOffering
Acquired by Oracle in 2011
December 2015
February 2017
On-PremiseOffering

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

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 microsite
What 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

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
▪ ahmed.aboulnaga@raastech.com

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