Oracle wants to help IT do a better job of calculating and managing risk with the latest version of its Agile Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software.

Oracle announced today that it is buying Agile Software, one of the premier product lifecycle management solution providers.

Oracle Corp. plans to pay US$495 million to buy Agile Software Corp., a maker of product lifecycle management software.

Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ:ORCL) has introduced product life cycle management (PLM) and product management for process into the market.

Oracle’s new and unprecedented challenge in its enterprise software roll-up role is to make PLM what it never was: an enterprise-wide strategic initiative.

Agile Product Lifecycle Management 9.3.1 debuts at Oracle OpenWorld. The company says its health care IT software will allow pharmaceutical companies to better manage the drug development process ...

We have related Oracle’s previous PLM and software initiative to its recent financial statements, and we found that Oracle has been improved in comparison to the previous year.