The release management process is a relatively new but rapidly growing discipline within software engineering of managing software releases.As software systems, software development processes, and resources become more distributed, they invariably become more specialized and complex. Furthermore, software products are typically in an ongoing cycle of development, testing, and release. Add to this an evolution and growing complexity of the platforms on which these systems run, and it becomes clear there are a lot of moving pieces that must fit together seamlessly to guarantee the success and long-term value of a product or project.Some of the challenges facing an Oracle implementation project include the management of:

1. Software defects Issues Risks 
2. Software change requests 
3. New development requests (additional features and functions) 
4. Deployment and packaging 
5. New development tasks

ARM is a collection of utilities that have been proved on many project implementations. It helps automate and smooth out many if not all of the challenges listed above.