Following its acquisition of Agile Software Corporation, enterprise software heavyweight Oracle recently announced its strategy for Enterprise Product Lifecycle Management (PLM). Through its "Applications Unlimited" program, Oracle will continue to build customer-driven enhancements and provide lifetime support for Oracle's Agile PLM.
Additionally, company sources said that Oracle plans to leverage its Oracle Application Integration Architecture (AIA) to deliver pre-built, open standards-based integrations between Oracle's 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.
Brad Kenney is the former Technology Editor of IndustryWeek and now serves as director of the mobile/social platforms practice at R/GA, a global marketing/advertising firm in New York City.