Oracle Strategy for Enterprise PLM to Include Enhancements, Support, Open Standards-Based Integrations
November 23, 2007 // Published as a news service by IHS
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Following its acquisition of Agile Software Corp., Oracle outlined its strategy for enterprise product lifecycle management (PLM).
Through its applications unlimited program, Oracle said it will continue to build customer-driven enhancements and provide lifetime support for Oracle's Agile PLM.
The company also plans to leverage the Oracle application integration architecture (AIA) to deliver prebuilt, open standards-based integrations between Oracle Agile PLM and other Oracle applications.
These integrations incorporate best practices that plan to be leveraged and extended by partners and customers and can be integrated into legacy systems or other applications, such as SAP, Oracle said.
With Oracle's Agile PLM, organizations can leverage business and technical information related to products, creating a flow of product information throughout the enterprise and across the product network.
Oracle said it will extend the value of PLM beyond the engineering department while implementing best-practice processes across design, development, manufacturing and product delivery. Using Oracle Agile PLM, companies can drive profits, accelerate innovation, improve quality, enable globalization and ensure regulatory compliance throughout the product lifecycle, Oracle said.
So that customers can accelerate product innovation and maximize profitability, Oracle said it plans:
- To continue to deliver enterprise PLM applications that can be deployed across all product development and broader enterprise organizations and stakeholders involved in the product lifecycle.
- To add industry-specific, next-generation functionality to Oracle Agile PLM tools, including in industries such as consumer goods, high tech, industrial manufacturing and life sciences.
- To maintain and extend the openness of Agile's tool that is both computer-aided design (CAD) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) agnostic.
- To design the service-oriented architecture (SOA) based Agile PLM so it can be extended through open, standards-based AIA to different enterprise components such as manufacturing and shop floor capabilities, ERP applications, supply chain planning functionality, customer relationship management (CRM), financial applications, enterprise performance management and business analytics.
"Integrating Agile's leading PLM capabilities with Oracle applications allows us to deliver an enterprise PLM solution that enables companies to make informed product decisions, speed product introduction and improve the quality of their products," said Hardeep Gulati, vice president, Oracle PLM product strategy.
"Our commitment to open, standards-based integrations will allow companies who rely on other enterprise applications including SAP to take advantage of our best-in-class PLM capabilities," Gulati said.
"The combination of Agile PLM solutions with Oracle's enterprise applications, middleware and technology solutions offers a best-in-class, enterprise solution for product lifecycle management," said Leon Shivamber, vice president, Harris Corp. supply chain management and operations. "We foresee this combination as a major force in helping companies lower costs and at the same time increasing the profitability of new product development. This is good news for customers," Shivamber said.
Source: Oracle Corp.