Featured Movable Type Site: Blogs.Oracle.Com

We've been championing blogging in the enterprise for years, so we are thrilled to note that one of the biggest and most respected enterprises in the world is blogging on Movable Type.

Blogs.Oracle.Com (BOC) is managed by the Oracle Technical Network and consists of hundreds of blogs authored by both employees and Oracle partners. Technologists, scientists, marketing professionals, and groups all maintain Movable Type blogs that aggregate up to Blogs.Oracle.Com, and the result is a rich view into the diversity and vitality of the company and its ecosystem.

The technology underlying BOC was developed by Oracle Asia Research and Development Center, a group located in the Asia Pacific that is tasked with creating innovative solutions based on Oracle technology. They chose to implement the Movable Type platform atop Oracle's Content Database to create a scalable network of hundreds of blogs.

Blogs.Oracle.Com is a space where collaboration, communication and knowledge sharing can take place across the enterprise and with partners and customers. Both internal and external blogs enable Oracle teams to interact with each other, vendors and customers quickly and efficiently.

Prior to implementing Movable Type, the company had been using a platform that did not provide RSS capabilities, entry tagging, or the ability to post different types media. Now, as one Oracle blogger writes, "we are finally catching up." And catching up they are - Oracle bloggers are already off to a great start, creating content and developing a dialogue around many key business areas.

Among the blogs on the BOC are a Social CRM blog, the Oracle Open World Blog, and the OTN Tech Blog written by head of the Oracle Technical Network Justin Kestelyn.

Blogging within and without the enterprise - especially on the scale of Blogs.Oracle.Com - is a tremendous show of confidence for this medium, and we look forward to watching Oracle use the Movable Type platform to connect and communicate more powerfully than ever before.