We have picked 2 industry-leading SaaS PLM platforms, Oracle Fusion Cloud and Propel PLM, and we will compare the differences between both solutions. …
Join the DZone community and get the full member experience. Digital innovation is not only evolving the product’s features but also the way they are designed and manufactured. To remain relevant in the changing market dynamics, enterprises must continuously strategize ways to optimize operational efficiency and infrastructure costs, improve product quality, and reduce time to market to accelerate the overall growth of the business. Enterprises are required to embrace digital transformation and innovate at a faster rate. However, to achieve this, it is essential to choose the right PLM software. With several PLM options available on the market, it can be a daunting challenge to choose the right PLM software that best fits your business needs. That’s why we have picked two industry-leading SaaS PLM platforms: Oracle Fusion Cloud and Propel PLM, and we will compare the differences between both solutions so that you can make an informed decision for your next PLM investment. Disclaimer: GoSaaS is an award-winning Oracle Partner. However, this article doesn’t represent the opinion of Oracle Corporation in any way. This article only describes the information available on reliable thought leadership resources and opinions formed by the author for the benefits of the enterprises looking to make PLM software decisions. Oracle Fusion Cloud is a collaborative cloud-based, PLM 4.0 solution that’s built on a software as a Service (SaaS) model. It seeks to help enterprises improve their supply chain processes by structuring and organizing the data and processes that go into developing and commercializing their services and products. Oracle Fusion Cloud aims to assist product innovation for companies by managing information, people, processes, and decisions regarding their products throughout the product life cycle and across the global product networks. Oracle Fusion Cloud is a unified platform across ERP, supply chain management (SCM), supply chain planning, manufacturing, maintenance, IoT, and customer experience that promises to assist businesses in product design, development and launch. Propel PLM is a cloud-based PLM software built on Salesforce. Propel claims to be a highly integrable platform that offers a single source of truth for the entire product value chain, including critical areas such as sales, service, and partners. Its built-in capabilities such as Bill of Materials (BOM), Product Information Management (PIM), Quality Management System (QMS), Project Management, and Engineering Changes, claim to design and deliver products with improved time to market while maximizing customer satisfaction and improving compliance. Part of Oracle’s Fusion SaaS suite, Oracle Fusion Cloud Product Management brings together product innovation, development, lifecycle management, and commercialization with the help of: Oracle Fusion Cloud has every module to provide innovation, commercialization, governance and compliance to a wide range of businesses. The majority of modules in the Propel PLM are quite similar to Oracle PLM. The main modules in the Propel PLM include: Oracle Fusion Cloud has all the functionalities for developing a product, and it has also evolved to cater to all the pre-product definition and development processes. These powerful functionalities enable enterprises to capture ideas, collect requirements, manage all their portfolios and proposals all the way to operation and sales management. Moreover, Oracle Fusion Cloud can be directly coordinated into ERP systems and allows collaboration among internal groups such as R&D, Quality Assurance, Operations, and many more. The efficient administration of product data and therefore the support of engineering processes has become a critical success factor for manufacturing companies today.
