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Product Lifecycle Management is the process of managing a product -- from initial concept to obsolescence or retirement. When this process is effective, a company can drive profitable innovation – accelerate new product introductions, get them to market quickly, and continuously improve quality while reducing costs. Oracle Product Lifecycle Management provides an integrated, complete solution that effectively manages both product and project information, and enables you to make the right product investment decisions and maximize the value capture from all products and services throughout their lifecycle.

Oracle's Agile Product Lifecycle Management (Agile PLM) manages the enterprise product record, the single system of record for product information required to maximize profitability throughout the lifecycle. Containing the rich information that uniquely defines all aspects of a product at each stage in its lifecycle, the product record includes all of the information required by the across a global product network to conceptualize, design, source, build, sell, service and dispose of products.

Through a broad suite of best practice, business-ready solutions, Agile PLM provides secure, timely, visibility and control of product information for PLM processes and for stakeholders across a global product network. Agile helps companies accelerate revenue, drive innovation, reduce costs, improve quality, and ensure regulatory compliance throughout the product lifecycle.

Oracle's Agile Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Solutions enable companies to accelerate product innovation and maximize product profitability by managing the information, processes and decisions about their products throughout the product lifecycle and across the global product network. With a broad suite of enterprise class PLM applications and time-to-value focused implementations, built on a proven track record of delivering value and enabling best practices across 1,300+ global companies, Agile is providing customers with the broadest and most comprehensive end-to-end PLM solutions in the industry.

The enterprise product record is the key intellectual asset of an enterprise, containing the rich information that uniquely defines all aspects of a product at each stage in its lifecycle. The product record includes all the information required by an enterprise and its extended design and supply chain to conceptualize, design, source, build, sell, service and dispose of products. Agile PLM Solutions provide secure, timely, and accurate visibility and control of critical product information and processes to each stakeholder at each stage in the product lifecycle.

Oracle offers two PLM solutions – Agile PLM for managing the lifecycle of an enterprises product assets and Agile PLM for Process for managing its processes.

Benefits of the PLM Solution:

• Agile Product Collaboration — Helps users share product data and structure and manage change across the global product network
• Agile Product Cost Management — Enables companies to manage product costs through early and real time cost visibility
• Agile Product Quality Management — Drives improved product quality and customer satisfaction by integrating customer, product, quality and regulatory information within a closed-loop corrective action system
• Agile Product Governance & Compliance — Enables organizations to manage product, substance, material compliance against standards and regulatory requirements
• Agile Engineering Data Management — Organizes and manages product design assets to support globally distributed engineering teams
• Agile Product Portfolio Management — Provides tightly synchronized program and product information, maximized resource utilization, and cross-program visibility and decision support throughout the product lifecycle
• Agile Engineering Collaboration — Ensure that engineering processes are fully leveraged throughout the product lifecycle driving engineering best practices across the enterprise
• AutoVue Electro-Mechanical Professional for Agile — Provides native document visualization across a global enterprise for over 450 file formats
• Agile Variant Management (e6) — Provides a best-practice approach to managing portfolios of related products and product variants across the life cycle

Benefits of the PLM for Process Solution:

• Agile New Product Development and Introduction — Provides companies with a multistage collaborative project and portfolio management solution to streamline and accelerate product development and introduction, thereby improving sales and margins, increasing success for new product innovations, reducing innovation costs and enhancing productivity
• Agile Product Data Management — Provides a single version of the truth for all product and supplier data across all languages and cultures, delivering global visibility and traceability, greater change control, lower costs, improved productivity and enhanced compliance, quality and safety
• Agile Formulation and Compliance — Enables users to manage experimental formulations, compliance, quality, labeling and nutrition, thereby accelerating new product introductions, enhancing compliance and quality, improving labeling and reducing costs
• Agile Product Supplier Collaboration — Enables users to collaborate with suppliers and effectively manage sourcing relationships across the multi-tiered supplier network, leading to greater visibility, better sourcing strategies, improved collaboration, enhanced compliance and lower costs