Companies use Oracle WebCenter Portal to build enterprise-scale intranet and extranet portals that provide a foundation for the next-generation user experience (UX) with Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle Fusion Applications.

Portals built with Oracle WebCenter Portal commonly support thousands of users who create, update, and access content and data from multiple back-end sources. Oracle WebCenter Portal provides an open and extensible solution that allows users to interact directly with tools and services like instant messaging, documents, content management, discussion forums, wikis, blogs, and tagging directly from within the context of a portal. Oracle WebCenter Portal delivers intuitive user experiences by leveraging the best UX capabilities from a significant portfolio of leading portal products and related technologies. From the user's perspective, the integration is seamless.

Oracle WebCenter Portal provides an out-of-the-box enterprise-ready customizable application, with a configurable work environment that enables individuals and groups to work and collaborate more effectively to develop and use portals. Business users can easily assemble new portals or composite applications using Portal Composer and a page editor that includes a library of prebuilt reusable components. They can enhance user experience by wiring components together on the page, configuring content personalization, enabling the use of integrated social tools, and creating data visualizations. Developers can also use JDeveloper to build custom assets that can be used in portals built with Oracle WebCenter Portal.

The standard installation topology is a flexible topology that you can use as a starting point in production environments.

The information in this guide helps you to create a standard installation topology for Oracle WebCenter Portal. If required, you can later extend the standard installation topology to create a secure and highly available production environment, see Next Steps After Configuring the Domain.

The standard installation topology represents a sample topology for this product. It is not the only topology that this product supports. See About the Standard Installation Topology in Planning an Installation of Oracle Fusion Middleware.

• About the Oracle WebCenter Portal Standard Installation Topology
  This topology represents a standard WebLogic Server domain that contains an Administration Server and a cluster that contains two Managed Servers.
• About Elements in the Standard Installation Topology Illustration
  The standard installation topology typically includes common elements.
• Understanding Oracle WebCenter Portal Managed Servers
  After Oracle WebCenter Portal is installed, you need to create or extend and configure a WebLogic Server domain.
• Understanding Oracle WebCenter Portal Components
  By default, all Oracle WebCenter Portal components are installed onto your system. Depending on the functionality required in your portals, you can choose the components that need to be configured in your domain.

The procedures in this guide describe how to create a new domain. The assumption is that no other Oracle Fusion Middleware products are installed on your system.

If you have installed and configured other Oracle Fusion Middleware products on your system (for example, Fusion Middleware Infrastructure, with a domain that is up and running) and wish to extend the same domain to include Oracle WebCenter Portal, see Installing Multiple Products in the Same Domain.