Secure, Simple File Sharing and Syncing for the Enterprise: Oracle Documents Cloud Service

For several years, savvy computer users have utilized Dropbox, Google Drive, or other file synchronization and sharing tools to collaborate with specific friends or colleagues.  These apps allow users to sync files between various devices automatically, share files with password protection, and collaborate on documents with others, all the while satisfying the simple need to share files person-to-person.

Many applications have not been architected to meet the complex and ever-changing business community needs:  they rarely offer sufficient storage, version tracking, downloading to mobile devices, and they fail to offer the robust security required of enterprises.  Furthermore, when users turn to these tools for enterprise use, new risks are created for the organization.  Some IT departments have found that users have leveraged unauthorized simple document sharing applications for business purposes to facilitate sharing files (similar to enterprise content management) and synching files (similar to the apps listed above).  From an organizational perspective, these unauthorized apps represent a risky repository that isn’t securely governed or monitored for compliance by the organization.

Oracle Documents Cloud Service provides a properly architected, secure environment for business users to collaborate and share files within organizational policy.  The product is born of the need of users to share files and securely synchronize them and access them on any approved device.  It also remedies the problematic factors mentioned above to provide a strong and effective solution for the enterprise.  Most importantly, with the Documents Cloud Service approach, each customer’s data is properly isolated.

Oracle cites several benefits from Document Cloud Services that are enumerated in its whitepaper on the product.

A significant degree of platform flexibility is also offered to enterprises.  Oracle WebCenter Content is an industry leading onsite enterprise content management system; but now, with Oracle Document Cloud Service, organizations have three distinct choices for implementation.

·         An on premise solution for document collaboration and file sharing in WebCenter;

·         A Public Cloud option, where the application can be used as a Software as a Service (SaaS) deployment, which is essentially software on demand;

·        A Hybrid solution, which is a combination of Public Cloud and on premise solutions, which offers the best of both worlds in a solution.

Learn more about Oracle Documents Could Service here:  https://cloud.oracle.com/documents