Hoping to ease the pain associated with growing regulatory requirements and product complexity for its users in the food and beverage industry, Oracle rolled out a new version of its Agile Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) for Process product.

Usability was greatly improved in the 9.3 release. This is evident in the Web 2.0 look and feel as well as more intuitive interaction with the user.

This is a short post to illustrate usability improvement in one area of PPM. The use-case is that of adding new content to a project. Prior to 9.3, users had to search for content from the Content tab, and had to go through a couple of clicks to add that content. 9.3 retains that method and adds another (and in my opinion, cooler) method to add new content to the project.

I am writing a quick blog post on how to use Events in PPM. Shane's post introduces events as a mechanism for automation. Automation can be done at various levels. It can range from the simple such as autofill of attributes in an object to the complex such as tying-in of related business processes. This blog post covers simple automation examples for PPM. Later posts will cover extensive automation to model business processes such as Ideation, Preliminary CAD Design and Prototyping.

An Oracle executive on Tuesday confirmed the company's plan to push more specialized products -- and conceivably more margin -- to select partners in North America starting this year.

Trumpeting its product's improved risk analysis feature and ability to lower development costs, Oracle rolled out a spruced-up version of its Agile  Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) backbone that can integrate with a broader array of applications.

Hardeep Gulati, Oracle's vice president in charge of PLM product strategy, said the major goal Oracle wanted to accomplish with the newly minted Version 9.3 of Agile PLM was to deliver to users a product that could not just mitigate risk but also improve user productivity.

In this economy, IT and engineering departments are not only lean, but many of them naturally become more risk-averse. That’s bad for business because successful companies and IT groups use technology as an innovative and competitive advantage and in order to do that you have to take some healthy risks.

One of the most common questions that customers ask us before deploying the Agile PLM - e-Business Suite integration using the Design to Release Process Integration Pack (PIP) is - Do I need to implement Oracle Engineering? The answer is - not really. All you need to do is a few very simple setups that can be done in matter of minutes.