“Obfuscation” is the term for scrambling of the data and/or table names, property names within the PLM database. This is the way the other major PLM / PDM systems were / are designed. The database table for the Part Master is not called / labelled “Part” – it’s labelled...
Every once in a while, I get a call from a CIO who says “my team is looking at your software. We like it and it works well, but I’m a little concerned about going with open source.” The first thing I tell them is that open source approaches to software development and distribution can...
Next Wednesday (June 30th) at 2pm ET there’s going to be a free live webcast on how XEROX has transformed their worldwide product development process for office products using enterprise open source PLM. It’s part of the PLM Innovation 2010 online series by MarketKey. For those of you who...
In a recent post his blog, PLM Think Tank , Oleg Shilovitsky wrote about the PLM Open Source Tradeoff . I shared my thoughts on the piece and I am wondering what you think. Here’s what I think… “I’m old enough to remember when the safest decision in computing was IBM, and it...
This is a good question and one that deserves more than a short blog post answer. So, am glad that Jeff Cope at Extensible CAD Technologies used it as the title to his third article in the 3 part product evaluation series of the Aras PLM software solution suite. In this segment of his evaluation Jeff...
The latest Aras PLM software release download is now available on the web site. This major release incorporates dozens of corporate community contributions constituting hundreds of innovative features and enhancements including: ECO / MCO simple engineering change workflows New Redline compare capabilities...