Sierra Atlantic Signs Co-Development Agreement with Oracle for “Design to Release” Process Integration Pack for Agile Product Lifecycle Management
April 06, 2009
Sierra Atlantic, the leader in offshoring enterprise applications and outsourced product development, today 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 best practice integration process that is also configurable and extensible to meet unique and evolving process needs. Based on open, standards-based Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), it is designed to enable seamless 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.
About Oracle Application Integration Architecture
Oracle Application Integration Architecture (AIA) is a broad set of products that deliver business process-based integrations across Oracle, third party and custom applications. Oracle AIA provides pre-built, open standards-based, sustainable integrations that tie applications together and generate value for customers and partners, by giving them the architecture and tools to implement their own composite business processes across all applications.
Oracle AIA is powered by Oracle® Fusion Middleware and offers customers rapid integration of applications, through pre-built and pre-packaged integrations called Process Integration Packs.
About the Oracle PartnerNetwork
Oracle PartnerNetwork is a global business network of more than 20,000 companies who deliver innovative software solutions based on Oracle software. Through access to Oracle’s premier products, education, technical services, marketing and sales support, the Oracle PartnerNetwork program provides partners with the resources they need to be successful in today’s global economy. Oracle partners are able to offer their customers leading-edge solutions backed by Oracle’s position as the world's largest enterprise software company. 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
About Sierra Atlantic
Sierra Atlantic is the leader in offshoring enterprise applications and outsourced product development. With expertise derived from deep R&D relationships with enterprise software leaders such as Oracle and Microsoft, we provide full lifecycle product development and IT services including implementation, integration, development, testing, and support. Sierra Atlantic is amongst the largest IT services companies, offering services in the "New Oracle Economy," Outsourced Product Development, and Microsoft competencies, with global delivery from both India and China. Over 200 active customers currently address their business needs leveraging our NShore™ methodology and best-in-class Global delivery capabilities. A recognized leader in quality, Sierra Atlantic has been the recipient of many distinguished awards including Oracle Partner of the Year (3 years consecutively), Microsoft Gold Certified and NXT Delivery Partner, IDC DQ Top 20, and Great Places to Work. Sierra Atlantic is headquartered in Fremont, California and maintains operations in 16 countries across North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific. For more information, please visit www.SierraAtlantic.com.
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