MOSS 2007 vs. Oracle Intranet Portal - Product Comparison

MOSS 2007 vs. Oracle Intranet Portal - Product Comparison
	MOSS 2007	Oracle Portal 10g
Product Overview & Features	Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 is an integrated suite of server capabilities that can help improve organizational effectiveness by providing comprehensive content management and enterprise search, accelerating shared business processes, and facilitating information-sharing across boundaries for better business insight. Office SharePoint Server 2007 supports all intranet, extranet, and Web applications across an enterprise within one integrated platform, instead of relying on separate fragmented systems. Additionally, this collaboration and content management server provides IT professionals and developers with the platform and tools they need for server administration, application extensibility, and interoperability.	Oracle Portal 10g Release 2 offers out of box portal solution as a part of its Fusion Middleware bundled with 10g Oracle Application Server. Oracle Portal lets the enterprise employ a single portal framework to manage Organization's entire Web presence. It is based in the Oracle's implementation of J2EE containers or Oracle Containers for J2EE (OC4J). Besides providing standard functionalities of an enterprise portal Oracle Portal also allows integration with the E-Business suite enabling organizations to provide dynamic content to employees, Partners and vendors. This integration with enterprise applications extends itself to non Oracle Applications like SAP also.
	Key Features:	Key Features:
	-Portal -Content Management The content management features in SharePoint 2007 fall into 3 categories: · Document management (Control documents through detailed, extensible policy management) · Records management · Simplify Web content management -Search Integration (ability to index and search (LOB) Line of Business Applications) -Business process forms (XML based electronic forms that integrate with the Microsoft family of applications and Pluggable (SSO) Single Sign-On) -Business Intelligence (BI provides to every employee; allowing them to share, control, and reuse business information in order to make better decisions) -Collaboration suites and Integration with Other in-house products (Microsoft Exchange, Mobility Solutions and File/Print Services etc) -Business Data Catalogue (Provides integration features with ERP applications like people soft, Seibel Etc) Top 10 Benefits -Provide a simple, familiar and consistent user experience -Boost employee productivity by simplifying everyday business activities -Help meet regulatory requirements through comprehensive control over content -Effectively manage content to increase business value -Simplify organization-wide access to structured and unstructured information across disparate systems -Connect people with information and expertise -Accelerate business processes and maintain control of your electronic forms environment -Share business data while preserving its consistency and protecting sensitive information -Facilitate better informed decisions by presenting business critical information in one central location -Provide a single, integrated platform to manage intranet, extranet, and internet applications across the enterprise	-Ability to implement Single Sign On by integrating with Oracle Internet Directory -Oracle Portal offer in built portlets which can be used with Other Oracle Business Intelligence tools like Discoverer -Oracle Portal also offers interaction with the business process engineering tools like BEPL. -Apart from the dynamic content and integration with other enterprise applications Oracle Portal also allows for convenient publishing of content through the desktop -Oracle Portal also comes with an inbuilt Portal Development Kit (PDK) which allows developer to do custom development. -SOA Enabler -Portal Integration With Oracle Applications Oracle continues to make the Portal environment a very attractive one for developers, Web designers and administrators. Some of the major enhancements in Portal 10g includes: • Installation/Upgrade • OmniPortlet • Web Clipping • The Portal Development Kit (PDK) • Integration Solutions • Page design and content management • Search, Workflow and Export/Import functionality
Scalability	Microsoft.com is the 5th most visited Web site on the Internet, hosting hundreds of thousands of pages of content. Running our site on Office SharePoint Server 2007 goes a long way in demonstrating to customers worldwide that the product is reliable and provides an effective solution for managing vast amounts of content.	The successful e-business needs to take advantage of the potential for being connected anywhere, from the phone that surfs the Web, and the DBA who checks the database with a Palm Pilot, to the laptop user that orders on the Web.
	SharePoint is the first and foremost an exercise by Microsoft to extend their monopoly of Office. SharePoint is part of the Office group	To this enterprise level infrastructure Oracle adds a powerful set of facilities to support the development, deployment and management of e-business applications
	Messaging and Mobility Integration (Active Sync wireless and Outlook Integration)	The Oracle Interconnect architecture allows a business to model, monitor, and manage the integration of separate applications (including external applications such as SAP or PeopleSoft).
High Availability	MOSS 2007 supports Various server farm Topologies for SMB and Enterprise platform with enhanced and proven load balancing application server with high-end database Active/Passive clustering, through "business critical" model. -Limited server deployment (one or two server farm) -Minimum level of availability (Four/Five server farm) -Maximum level of availability (Six Server Farm)	- Supports Multiple Middle-Tier Configurations with a Load Balancing Router. - These features include automatic connection rerouting, death detection, and automatic restart, as well as the ability to integrate with the Oracle Database Transaction Application Failover (TAF). -This configuration also supports Session State replication and Application Failover for both servlets and Enterprise Java Beans
	Database mirroring offers three modes of implementation. The choice you select depends on how you want to handle failover processing. • High availability This operating mode option allows you to synchronize writing transaction logs to both servers and enables automated failover. For this option to work, you must also have a witness server. • High protection This option allows you to synchronize writing transaction logs to both servers, but failover is manual. Because automated failover is not part of this option, a witness server is not used. • High performance This option does not synchronize writing transaction logs to the servers, and therefore offers some performance gains. When using this option, you are just assuming that everything is going to complete successfully on the mirror. This option only allows manual failover, and a witness server is not used.	Oracle Application Server meets this requirement by internally coordinating the use of available memory and CPU resources through load-balancing and connection routing/pooling. The state failover capability makes it possible to run the same application on single CPU machines or high end SMP-clustered systems without changing the application.
Manageability	Managed Centralized, As Microsoft is known for the operational flexibility in Administration and end user usage. -Easy to Index -Easy to Manage Portal -Easy to find information -Easy to Brand	The new release as made administering Oracle Portal instance effectively, including the areas of installation, monitoring, security and migration.
	Supports Ad-hoc self service w/ Life cycle management	Export/Import Portal Pages
	-MOSS 2007 supports MOM and Operation Manager 2007 integration for Alert and Event Management -MOSS 2007 Site recovery and restore made simple supporting VSS features	Event Management and Alerting supported by 3rd Party Monitoring Tools
Reference Links	http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointserver/FX100492001033.aspx http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262868(TechNet.10).aspx	http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/ias/portal/index.html