Oracle Beehive

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Oracle Beehive

• Vivek Pavle
• Orabyte LLC
• www.orabyte.com

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Challenges of Collaboration

• Disjointed Systems and hence maintenance
  efforts
• Massive amount of Information
• Geographical, Policy restrictions
• Data Duplication and decentralization
• Regulatory Compliance
• Tool Centric

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Oracle Beehive
Content
Email
IM
Calendar
Workflow
File Server

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What Beehive Offers..

• Unified platform for all collboration needs
• Makes Teams work more efficiently increasing
  productivity.
• It is task/user/team oriented.
• Data is centralized, easily managable and
  secure.
• Provides intuitive, rich set of collboration
  tools
• Faster Response Time which avoids process
  slowdown.

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Oracle Beehive

BeehiveServices
OracleDatabase

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Beehive Collaboration Services

• Content Management Services
• Discussions Service
• E-mail Service
• Instant Message Services
• Time Management Services
• Voice Message Service

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Beehive Supported Protocols

• Calendaring Extensions for WebDAV (CalDAV)
• Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol
  (XMPP)
• File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
• Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP)
• Open Mobile Alliance Data Synchronization
  (OMA-DS)
• Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP)
• Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning
  (WebDAV)

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Beehive Enterprise Services

• Mobility Services
• Search Service
• Subscription and Notification Services
• Workspace Services

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Beehive Core Services

• Access Control Service
• Audit Service
• Authentication Services
• Client Management Service
• Device Management Service
• Event Services
• Policy Service
• Presence Service
• Management Service
• User Directory Service
• Workflow Service

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Beehive Architecture
BeehiveServices
ExternalAnti-Virus
ExternalEmail/Calendar
ExternalEmail/Calendar
Beectlgt
ExternalLDAP
OracleDatabase

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Beehive Workspaces

• A virtual location and container that provides
  users a place and context for collaboration.
• In workspaces, users can manage e-mail messages,
  calendar, meetings, tasks, contacts, instant
  messages, and documents, and so on.
• Through workspaces, users can seamlessly
  collaborate, search efficiently and subscribe to
  content so that they receive notifications upon
  changes.

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Beehive Workspaces

• Personal Workspaces
• A personal workspace is used by an individual
  user and that contains a mix of a user's private
  content and content from the team workspaces in
  which the user is a member. User can share
  content from their personal work space with other
  users/teams.
• Team WorkspacesIt is a workspace that is shared
  by a team or group, and that supports the content
  and seamless collaborative activities of its
  members.

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Beehive Security Concepts

• Key Considerations
• Beehive as a complete system is secure and
  available.
• Protect the integrity of Oracle Beehive data.
• Effective implementation of user level data
  access. Users should be able to access only
  the data, workspaces, data to which they are
  authorized.
• Easy administration of the system.
• Effective implementation of security policies
• Tools to monitoring realtime information and
  recovery if required.

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Beehive Security Terms
Privileges Privileges are system-defined access
rights to various functions within Oracle
Beehive. Privileges grant end users access to
services such as e-mail, instant messaging, and
time management as well as grant administrators
access to auditing, user administration, and role
management functions. Roles Roles are sets of
privileges that may be assigned to users and
groups. Roles determine what privileges assignees
may possess and content that users can or cannot
access. Users and groups may also be associated
with role definitions for specific scopes
(assigned Roles), such as a workspace.

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Beehive Security Terms
Access Control Entries (ACEs) ACE is granular
level access policy that applies to individual
entity such as file, workspace, calendar. Each
ACE contains Accessor entities such as users or
groupsAccess Type read, write, discover,
execute, delete Access Qualifier Access is
granted or denied. Collection of ACE is called
Access Control List (ACL) Sensitivity It is a
named ACL that users can define and apply to
entities within a given workspace. Sensitivities
are not attached to an object. Instead, a
sensitivity is an ACL-template, which may be used
again and again to assign the same ACL to many
different objects.

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Other Beehive Features

• Auditing
• Anti-virus Support
• External LDAP Support
• Mobile Device Security
• Beehive collaboration coexistence
• Integration with Oracle BPEL Process Manager
• Oracle Beehive Web Services
• Fax Service
• Voice Message Service
• Search Service

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Beehive Clients

• XMPP Gaim/Pidgin, iChat, Oracle messenger,
  Trillian Pro
• WebDAV Microsoft Windows WebFolders and
  Internet Explorer
• CalDAV Apple iCal, Mozilla Lightning,
  Mozilla Thunderbird
• IMAP/SMTP Apple Mail, MS Outlook, Mozilla
  Thunderbird.
• FTP/FTPS CuteFTP, WS_FTP, SmartFTP

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Outlook Integration (OBIO)

• OBIO is a Messaging Application Programming
  Interface (MAPI) service provider for Microsoft
  Outlook.
• Leverages existing investment in Outlook. It
  Extends the functionality of Outlook by
  providing Outlook users with unified access to
  Beehive based collaborative features.
• OBIO requires installation on the computers of
  individual users. After installation, OBIO
  automatically detects updates that are made
  available through the Device Management
  Service.

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OBIO Features

• Individual Productivity Features
• Email
• Calendar/Scheduling
• Tasks
• Contacts
• Notes
• Address Book/Directory
• Team Productivity Features
• Beehive concepts mapping to Outlook
• Personal/Team workspace exposed as Outlook
  accounts
• Documents Access/Management/Sharing
• Notifications

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Oracle Beehive
Collaboration can be effective tool in business
processes. If embedded properly it can increase
producitivity by virtue of efficient
communication, less processing time, optimal data
storage and up-to-date information
sharing. Oracle Beehive offers such efficient
collaborative tool that offers unified
collaborative model allowing users to work
together and achieve the tasks effectively. The
rich set of tools and effective information
management provided by Beehive can help
organizations become more effective.

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Oracle Beehive
Vivek.pavle_at_orabyte.com www.orabyte.com

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