| Oracle today unveiled Oracle's Agile Product | | | | product record information (price, compliance, |
| Lifecycle Management (PLM) 9.3, a new enterprise | | | | specifications) or are at risk of obsolescence. |
| PLM offering with advanced risk analysis, an | | | | - Product Quality Risk Analysis – Detects |
| enterprise PLM backbone that integrates other | | | | which products are most impacted by quality |
| applications and hundreds of productivity-enhancing | | | | issues, prioritizes customer complaints by urgency |
| innovations. | | | | and severity. |
| "Quantum has been a long time user of Oracle's | | | | - Product Design Volatility Analysis – Identifies |
| Agile Product Lifecycle Management, relying on it | | | | which products or product lines have the most |
| to help drive product data consistency, support | | | | late-stage changes during the new product release |
| new product development and time-to-market | | | | cycle, and outlines the severity of those changes |
| and create global alignment around our product | | | | and operational impact. |
| objectives. This has been particularly important as | | | | These analytics enhancements are also available |
| we've built out our portfolio of disk-based, | | | | to customers running Agile PLM 9.2.2 and higher. |
| deduplication and replication solutions and | | | | Enterprise PLM Backbone – Many existing |
| reinforced our leadership in backup, recovery and | | | | design and document management applications fail |
| archive," Daniel Hartley, PLM Applications Manager, | | | | to deliver strategic business value because of |
| Quantum Corporation. "With Agile PLM 9.3, we can | | | | difficulties in integrating them with other business |
| see improved usability and productivity in our | | | | applications. In contrast, Agile PLM 9.3 provides a |
| product development processes and will be able | | | | complete Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) |
| to leverage our current applications infrastructure | | | | that allows companies to integrate it's various |
| with the Enterprise PLM Backbone in 9.3." | | | | components to existing engineering and enterprise |
| This latest release equips customers to drive | | | | systems. This enables companies to seamlessly |
| profitable innovations, mitigate risk, lower | | | | deploy these PLM services and achieve their |
| development and product costs and improve | | | | business objectives while managing costs. Some |
| productivity across the entire product lifecycle. | | | | of the key features introduced in this release are: |
| Agile PLM 9.3 represents the latest milestone for | | | | - SOA Enterprise PLM Platform – Modularized |
| Oracle's "Applications Unlimited" program. | | | | web services, event management and extensible |
| "Agile has had a tradition of being easy to use and | | | | scripting for all PLM components including CAD |
| the enhancements in version 9.3 belay any | | | | objects to easily deploy, integrate, mash-up and |
| concerns that the Oracle acquisition would dilute | | | | extend product lifecycle processes. |
| this advantage. Agile has also led the PLM market | | | | - Integrated Product Master Data Management - |
| with analytics and this continues to be true with | | | | Manage data mappings, improve data quality and |
| the latest improvements," said Michael Burkett, | | | | data governance across the heterogeneous |
| AMR Research. | | | | systems integrated to the Enterprise PLM |
| "Today, PLM has become a highly strategic tool | | | | Backbone. |
| that can impact profitability, mitigate risks and | | | | - Oracle® Application Integration Architecture |
| improve enterprise productivity," said Oracle Vice | | | | (AIA) – Continued development of |
| President, PLM Product Strategy Hardeep Gulati. | | | | out-of-the-box open standards-based integrations |
| "With this latest release, Oracle extends its lead in | | | | to broader enterprise systems including Oracle |
| delivering Enterprise-class PLM by giving | | | | and SAP. |
| organizations more out-of-the- box processes to | | | | User Productivity Tools – Agile PLM 9.3 |
| support their corporate initiatives within the | | | | enhances user productivity by leveraging a Web |
| framework of a scalable, enterprise PLM | | | | 2.0 User Interface. Lab tests of Agile PLM 9.3 |
| backbone." | | | | using real product data from a large global |
| Innovations and Enhancements Deliver Substantial | | | | customer showed a 70 percent reduction in clicks |
| Business Value | | | | and improvements to user productivity. New |
| Enhancements and innovations in Agile PLM 9.3 | | | | productivity improvements include: |
| include: | | | | - New User Interface Controls - In-line table |
| Product Risk Management – Supplier | | | | editing, context aware pop-ups, new drag and |
| performance changes, component shortages, | | | | drop capabilities, type ahead fields and more |
| price reductions and other global value chain | | | | streamlined controls. |
| uncertainties contribute to the high-risk | | | | - Enhanced User Personalization – |
| environment companies face today. Agile PLM 9.3 | | | | Column-locking, ordering and hiding, multi-column |
| extends the PLM analytics platform to provide: | | | | sorting and filtering, and personal views. |
| - Supplier Risk Analysis – Identifies high-risk | | | | - Simplified Access - expose Agile documents |
| suppliers based on quality, compliance and over | | | | directly to the desktop file browser or point Agile |
| exposure, enabling users to make better decisions | | | | PLM to existing document vaults. |
| about their supplier relationships across product | | | | - User Training Management - Personalized |
| portfolio. | | | | context help through Oracle User Productivity Kit |
| - Part Risk Analysis – Categorizes and | | | | (UPK) and video quick tours to reduce |
| identifies newly introduced parts, parts that lack | | | | deployment time and training significantly. |