Agile User Productivity Kit for Agile Product Collaboration 9.3 (Revision 1) GA'd on October 29, 2009 and is available on the Oracle E-Delivery web site!
This release revision includes 16 new UPK topics: nine Variant Management UPK topics, and seven AIA 2.5 Agile PLM Integration with E-Business Suite UPK topics.
Oracle Open World was exciting last week, and Agile PLM 9.3 was very well received. The keynote and other sessions were heavily attended. The PLM demo booth saw pretty good traffic!
I was asked this question by a PPM customer at the PLM Demo Booth. "How do I make sure that a project deliverable does not get deleted by a user?" I explained to the customer that this can be done rather easily, and that has been an existing feature since 9.2.2. The customer's response was "That information right there was worth the cost of attending Openworld!" I thought I would write a quick blog post explaining how this can be done, to the broader audience.
Did you know that you can automate the whole process of quarterly BOM costing process through SDK APIs in Agile PLM? Consider a case where, every quarter, the sourcing user needs to create a Sourcing Project, add items to the Sourcing Project, evaluate existing prices, create RFQ and submit to the Suppliers. Rather than having to do all of the above steps manually, the whole process can be automated. Product Cost Management (PCM) supports SDK APIs for the following steps to simplify the process:
With the above automation, the whole process can be completed in one-click, thus saving sufficient time for the sourcing user.
Come with questions, leave with answers.
Wish there was an event like this for life questions. However, for any questions that you might have about how Oracle can help you run your business more efficiently and profitably, join us at Oracle Openworld in San Francisco next week. PLM Product Managers will be there along with some of our field experts to answer any questions that you might have about Oracle Agile PLM, and to show you a demo of the product. Come visit us on the Demogrounds at booth S018.
Besides the demos, there will be a host of very informative sessions to educate you on how PLM can help you innovate and stay ahead of the competition. Senior executives from our Strategy, Product Management and Development organizations will talk about the vision and future direction of Agile PLM. There will be customer presentations and panel discussions on driving innovation, compliance and margins with PLM. A number of industry-specific sessions throughout the conference are sure to get you the answers that you need, while offering an invaluable opportunity to network with peers from other companies. Click here for a complete list of sessions around Agile PLM.
But after a day of learning and networking, it is important to relax and have some fun. To that effect, there are a number of events hosted by Oracle as well as our partners. Or, if you prefer, just head on outdoors and enjoy the many sights and tastes of the beautiful city that is San Francisco. Hope to see you there.
Design to Release PIP 2.4 has been updated to add Agile PLM 9.3 Support. The patchset 8583449 has been posted and is available for download through oracle support (Metalink).
Remember that the patch does not pack any other fixes or enhancements.
Along with the Agile PLM 9.3 release, Oracle also released Business Intelligence (BI) 3.1 which supports PC and PQM modules through "New Product Risk and Change Management Analytics" and "Quality Analysis" . Many customers have needed more reporting from Agile PLM than is supported in the out of the box reports - BI 3.1 delivers very diverse reporting options with 400+ total pre-built reports, 9 role based dashboards, and 6 functional dashboards. These reports can be extended using 300+ dimensions and 450 measures.
Understanding the impact of Business Intelligence goes beyond the individual reports and is more about understanding how operating your business with better information can improve results. What if you could quickly identify key product risks, critical process bottlenecks, and supply chain issues before they affect a product launch? Agile PLM organized your product data and enables your business processes, while Business Intelligence enables you to analyze the product data and process results to make better decisions about which actions to take next.
Synaptics will be talking about BI at their organization tomorrow, Tuesday October 6 at 11 AM US Pacific Time. Register at http://www.oracle.com/webapps/events/EventsDetail.jsp?p_eventId=101332&src=6769271&src=6769271&Act=36 to attend. From the event page "In this informal reference call, participants will have the opportunity to speak firsthand with Anan Siharath, Application Lead at Synaptics. The call will open with a brief overview, followed by candid discussion and an open question and answer session. Please allow one hour for the call."
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.
Continue reading "9.3 Feature: Drag & Drop Content to a Project" »
Did you know that you can use various keyboard shortcuts for data entry and navigation in Agile PLM 9.3? For instance, while working in tables (Item-BOM, Change-AI, Item-Attachments etc), apart from using TAB or ARROW keys to navigate through the cells in the table, you can use CTRL-C/CTRL-V to copy/paste rows, CTRL-A to select all the rows, CTRL-I to insert a new row etc. There are also shortcuts to use while navigating a tree structure, cascading lists, date controls etc. Click on Keyboard Controls in the Help menu in the left pane of the Agile PLM 9.3 application to find out more about these shortcuts.
With the new User Interface in Agile PLM 9.3, building of a BOM is now more quicker and easier. Users can use:
(a) Type-ahead feature - if you already know the part number (or a to quickly search for the part if they already know the part number. As the user starts typing in the part number, the application automatically presents a list of matching parts and the user can select and add the matching part.
(b) Quick search (searching against the part number and part description) or Advanced Search (searching against all attributes of a part). You can use the keyboard shortcut CTRL-SHIFT-X to quickly Advanced Search.
(c) Copy/Paste - if you want to build a BOM based on parts from another BOM (say, building a prototype BOM based on few parts from a production BOM), you can copy the parts from the 1st BOM and paste them into the 2nd BOM. When you copy parts from one Item-BOM tab into another Item-BOM tab, the application also copies all the BOM fields along with those parts. In this case, it will also copy values like Qty, Reference Designators, BOM flex fields etc from one Item-BOM to another Item-BOM tab. But, if you copy parts from, for instance, Change-AI tab and paste them into Item-BOM tab, only the part will be added since there are no common fields between Item-BOM and Change-AI tabs. You can also copy multiple parts from the left pane and paste them into the right pane.
(d) Drag/Drop - if you have parts in your left pane (either in Bookmarks, Recently Visited or Navigator), you can drag multiple parts and drop them into the BOM table on the right.
You can also refer to the blog on Multi Windowing in 9.3, where you can visually look at multiple BOMs at the same time and copy parts from one BOM and paste them into the BOM in Item-BOM tab.
In 9.3, we introduced a new attribute for the Project base-class called 'PLM Reference'. This blog post explains why we did this, and highlights some best practices on how to use this field. Before we go into details about why we introduced this field, let me talk about what the attribute is. The 'PLM Reference' attribute is a multi-list type attribute and can contain one or more objects in Agile PLM. You will notice that populating this field involves searching for Agile PLM objects. You will also notice that this field can only be filled in at the root project level, and automatically rolls down through the entire project structure.
The authors of this blog are members of the Product Management team at Oracle Agile PLM
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