Oracle has introduced three collaboration applications and
an enhanced product lifecycle management tool for its E-Business
Suite.The new products are part of what the company
has called a second wave of e-business offerings offering companies
deeper integration.
They were announced at Oracle's AppsWorld
conference in London, attended by some 8,500 delegates.
"I think we are in a moment of change from
early adoption to mass adoption [of enterprise software
applications]," said Sergio Giacoletto, executive vice president of
Oracle in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA).
As part of its strategy, to allow deeper
connections within businesses, Oracle released three new
collaboration applications: Oracle Project Management, Oracle
Project Collaboration and Oracle Project Intelligence.
The Project Management application allows
project managers to plan and schedule projects, create progress
reports, staffing plans and other documents which can be accessed
through a web interface.
The Project Collaboration application tool is
aimed at giving project team members the ability to see each
other's information, such as work plans, change orders and status
reports.
The Project Intelligence product offers
metrics and analytics for projects, as well as the ability to do
opportunity bookings and resource utilisation, Oracle said.
Oracle also expanded its product lifecycle
management applications, rolling out an Advanced Product Catalogue
tool which centralises all product and component information into a
central catalogue.
All four new offerings are immediately
available. However, no pricing information was given.
Giacoletto said that the company would
continue to concentrate on collaboration applications with more
offerings due to be introduced in the near future.
Scarlet Pruitt writes for IDG News
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