Oracle Announces Agile Product Lifecycle Management 9.3

In today's demanding and highly volatile business environment, you need a product lifecycle management (PLM) solution that improves innovation, product quality, and compliance while reducing costs and supply risk. With the release of Agile Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) 9.3, a new enterprise PLM offering with advanced risk analysis and an enterprise PLM backbone, customers are well-equipped to drive profitable innovations, mitigate risk, lower development and product costs and improve productivity across the entire product lifecycle. Agile PLM 9.3 represents the latest milestone for Oracle's "Applications Unlimited" program.

Supplier performance changes, component shortages, price reductions and other global value chain uncertainties contribute to the high-risk environment companies' face today. Agile PLM 9.3 extends the analytics platform to provide: Supplier Risk, Part Risk, Product Quality, and Product Design Volatility Analysis.

Many existing design and document management applications fail to deliver strategic business value because of difficulties in integrating them with other business applications. Agile PLM 9.3 provides a complete Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) that allows companies to integrate it's various components to existing engineering and enterprise systems. This enables companies to seamlessly deploy these PLM services and achieve their business objectives while managing costs.

Agile PLM 9.3 improves user productivity by leveraging a Web 2.0 User Interface. Based on tests in a lab environment using real product data from a large global customer, Agile PLM 9.3 delivered up to 70 percent reduction in clicks and improvements to user productivity. New productivity improvements include: Drag and Drop, Inline table editing, multiple BOM windows, user personalization and on-line help and training.