Oracle buzzing about Beehive

September 23, 2008: Oracle has launched a new platfom to deliver integrated team workspaces, calendar, instant messaging, and e-mail.

Beehive is promoted as an open-standards based enterprise collaboration platform, that exploits the security capabilities in the Oracle Database.

It offers a centralized, secure and auditable collaboration platform that is designed to help organizations reduce the cost and complexity of regulatory compliance and legal discovery.

“Oracle Beehive is the first truly integrated collaboration platform that understands diverse modes of collaboration through a unified object model. Oracle Beehive’s robust security model and an open, integrated and extensible set of collaboration services will transform the way organizations collaborate,” said Terry Olkin, Chief Architect and Vice President, Oracle Server Technology.

Beehive’s collaboration services are able to be triggered from within applications and a broad range of client interfaces.

Oracle Beehive software licenses are $US120 per user.

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