Oracle Guardian is an intuitive tool for preemptive system support. This product is used to find potential problems before they require the attention of your IT support staff or impact your operations and your customers.

Oracle Guardian helps to streamline deployments and day-to-day operations. At the touch of a button, Oracle Guardian does the following[Adopted]:

• Automatically finds and recommends the right updates and maintenance packs - saving your team time and maximizing your efficiency
• Scans your domain in seconds to immediately recognize and diagnose software defects.
• Using simple diagnostic Signature Patterns, quickly provides intuitive and detailed information about potential problems and how to fix them
• It offers side-by-side comparisons of snapshots or domains, constructing a timeline and comparing configuration and inventory differences
• It offers customizable signature annotations for managing, filtering, and tracking Signature Patterns and work related to detected Signature Patterns
• Integrates with Oracle JRockit Mission Control, collecting data through the JRockit Runtime Analyzer and applying Signature Patterns to the data

What products does Oracle Guardian work with?

It works with most of the ex-BEA product line like WebLogic Platform 8.1 and above

• WebLogic Portal
• WebLogic Integration
• WebLogic SIP Server
• AquaLogic Service Bus
• AquaLogic Data Services Platform
• RFID Enterprise Server

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The Oracle PLM solution is comprised of the following elements:

• Agile Product Collaboration :Provides stakeholders in the extended design and supply chain secure access to critical product record data for initiation and approval of design, manufacturing, customer, and supplier driven changes.
  • Key Points of this application are
    • Product Definition
    • Change Collaboration
    • Document Management
    • Manufacturer Management
    • Multiple Organizations
• Agile Product Governance and Compliance :Manages product and program compliance against industry standards and environmental / regulatory requirements such as the Waste of Electronic and Electrical Equipment (WEEE) directive and the Restriction of Hazardous Substance (RoHS) regulations.
• Agile Product Cost Management :Enables companies to manage product costs and make informed sourcing decisions early on, synchronizing product cost intelligence and processes across design, sourcing, manufacturing and supplier tiers throughout the product lifecycle.
• Agile Product Quality Management :Drives improved product quality and customer satisfaction by tightly integrating customer, product, quality, and regulatory information within a closed-loop corrective action system.
  • Key Points of this application are
    • Product Quality
    • Closed Loop Corrective Action
    • Design for Quality
    • Supply Chain Quality Management
• Agile Product Portfolio Management :Optimizes companies’ product development investments. Provides tightly synchronized program and product information and achieves cross-program, multi-enterprise visibility and decision support to maximize resource utilization.
• Agile Engineering Collaboration:Addresses the specific requirements of the engineering organization. Provides comprehensive product IP management across multiple CAD tools and disciplines in a central product record. Optimizes internal and external collaboration and IP reuse
• AutoVue Electro-Mechanical Prof. for Agile:Provides native document collaborative visualization across the global enterprise, and the ability to leverage native design files directly from the enterprise product record. Enables direct visual access to files without requiring the original authoring tool or translators.
• Agile Product Lifecycle Management Data Mart
• Agile Product Lifecycle Management Business Intelligence

Oracle (Agile) PLM Integration Products

• Oracle (Agile) ERP Adapter

This focus on the Product (product innovation…product profitability…product decisions…product lifecycle…product network)

"Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) is the business activity of managing a company's products all the way across the lifecycle in the most effective way.” (source -*2PLM - Product Lifecycle Management Magazine)

In other word:

• PLM enables companies to accelerate product innovation and maximize product profitability
• …through the management of the information, processes and decisions about their products…
• …throughout the product lifecycle and across the global product network

Which kind of industry needs PLM

• Industrial manufacturing industry to track and manage engineering change orders .
• High technology
• Life sciences and pharma industry
• Food & beverage
• Retail