OpenBOM vs. Oracle Fusion Cloud PLM

OpenBOM is well suited for users who require the ability to have a "structured sandbox" when it comes to part, BOM, and vendor management. By having this structure, it allows for consistent capturing of key information, in a structured way, while also being dynamic where approved users can modify the information without too much overhead. We're using it for a medical device.

Incentivized

Oracle Agile is great for companies that need a way to manage their products and work with various resources in their department from developers, to PMs and UX designers. This is a great way to keep track of feature requests and shippable versions of the product. Implementation and user friendlessness is an issue with this tool so companies that have the budget for consulting or for additional resources to help implement and maintain will need those resources as it is necessary. Training resources should also be factored in by any institution wishing to implement this.

Incentivized

• E-BOM management with an intuitive interface.
• Import/export from/to popular systems.

Incentivized

• User access is easy to change for all users, there is no hassle when someone switches departments or leaves/joins the company.
• Custom searches make it easy to find documents or records, global for the whole company and custom personal searches are available.
• Objects are easy to connect through relationships tab and BOM, makes it easier to see what is affected when a change is made.

Incentivized

• Consistent log-off/ log-ins required (despite saying stay logged in)
• Default "custom use" of fields (vs. requiring the user to check this each time a new parameter is selected).

Incentivized

• The overview page is dated as this UI has been in the works for many years - a very 'engineering dashboard'
• Unable to copy, paste, and modify workflows . Need to create from scratch
• Ongoing support for Oracle Agile is in question with the movement to Cloud technologies

Incentivized

OpenBOM is mainly BOM-centric, whilst PLM solutions have much wider functionality, suitable for cross-department activities. We are in constant search and evaluation of a one-fits-all solution and, I must say, after a price spike, OpenBOM doesn't look as attractive as it used to.

Incentivized

In simple words Oracle Product Hub cloud is easy to set up and configure, we don't have to depend on anyone to set it up. It's that super easy. But to operate them we need to have proper training and needs to complete the essential certifications. But compared to others it's easy and will help in the business a lot more than others.

Incentivized

• My company has avoided (literally) hundreds of misconfigurations, saving us months of development cycle time.
• We have been able to streamline vendor management/ approval (or disqualification), reducing the overall time from ~8 hours to <2 hours per vendor. And our maintenance of the vendors (e.g. requalification) has similar savings.

Incentivized

• The gains provided by Oracle agile PLM have manifested themselves mostly in terms of time, since by being able to better organize and schedule our work we have been able to expand our ROI significantly, gaining around 900% of the investment made monthly, which leaves our ROI at 9g.

Incentivized