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6 April 2009
Product News
Sierra Atlantic Signs Co-Development Agreement with Oracle for “Design to Release” Process Integration Pack for Agile Product Lifecycle Management
Sierra Atlantic announced that the company has signed a co-development agreement with Oracle for the “Design to Release” Process Integration Pack (PIP) for Agile Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) with SAP Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP). This PIP will support the exchange of product-related content between Oracle’s Agile PLM and SAP ERP, enabling streamlined integration and reduced costs and time-to-market for SAP ERP sites.
The “Design-to-Release” PIP for Agile PLM is a pre-built integration process that is also configurable and extensible to meet evolving process needs. Based on open, standards-based Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), it is designed to enable synchronization of enterprise product records across the supply chain and extended product network. The best practices reflected in PIP orchestrate a near real-time and highly responsive manufacturing release process for new products and design updates.
“Oracle Application Integration Architecture has become a major building block in the new Oracle economy," said GK Murthy, Senior Vice President, Enterprise Solutions at Sierra Atlantic. “We have brought the value-added business process knowledge gained from developing various PIPs and our expertise with Oracle’s Agile Product Lifecycle Management to develop a solution that is designed to seamlessly synchronize product content between distributed engineering and manufacturing organizations, providing a range of benefits for SAP sites that use Oracle’s Agile PLM.”
“We wanted to co-develop this integration solution with Sierra Atlantic, through our Application Integration Architecture partner initiative, to bring their extensive integration experience, domain expertise and competitive service rates to bear for our customers,” said Jose Lazares, Oracle Vice President, Applications Development & Product Strategy, Applications Integration Architecture. “Their ability to deliver integrated business processes quickly and cost effectively will allow our customers to fully leverage Oracle’s best-of-breed enterprise PLM applications with SAP ERP solutions.”
Unlike traditional point-to-point integrations, typically based on proprietary third-party technologies, the “Design-to-Release” PIP for Agile PLM developed by Sierra Atlantic for SAP ERP solutions provides a SOA-based integration built on open standards that enables:
• Reduced time to market for new products
• Faster time to volume
• Improved product quality
• Reduced supply chain disruption associated with new product introductions
• Predictable and sustainable product and process integration
• Lower total cost of ownership of Enterprise PLM platform
• Reduced implementation risks
Sierra Atlantic is also a Certified Partner in the Oracle PartnerNetwork.
Partners who are able to demonstrate superior product knowledge, technical expertise and a commitment to doing business with Oracle qualify for the Certified Partner levels. http://oraclepartnernetwork.oracle.com
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