In any enterprise-wide PLM deployment the subject of integration to legacy systems is going to be important. Everybody knows that Aras has a comprehensive suite of pre-packaged connector integrations for MCAD, EDA / ECAD and ERP systems, however, not everyone knows about our custom integration capabilities...
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Out-Of-The-Box (OOTB) PLM solutions are great in concept. The reality, however, is not so rosy or promising. A while back, Chad Jackson did a post on his blog, Engineering Matters , called My Points in the ‘Why Hasn’t PLM Taken Over the World’ Live Blog Debate . That post is where I...
Recently, Graham McCall at AESSiS wrote a pretty good blog post titled “ Why Some People Don’t Like PLM ”. It’s a good re-post here and figured I’d include my own 2 cents as well. First, here’s Graham’s perspective: I thought it might be a good idea to examine...
Change management processes are difficult enough to master, however, when you introduce change notification across the supply chain there is another order of magnitude in the challenge. Most company’s focus on getting review and approval automated. This is a logical place to start. However, it...
Recently, I was asked by the Product Development & Management Association ( PDMA ) to present on our innovation and corporate transition to an open model. The PDMA was interested in hearing about our transition: What were the motivating factors? How did we address strategic planning? What management...
Graham Bell at MCADCafé recently conducted a podcast interview with Aras president Peter Schroer to cover the market impact that the Aras Microsoft enterprise open source approach is having and how it works. Listen as Peter explains how companies are taking advantage of the Aras solutions’ open source...
The traditional Open Source projects are collaborations on infrastructure software (e.g. Linux operating system, JBOSS middleware, MySQL database), while the software applications needed to run a business are still tightly controlled, proprietary systems that offer no vehicle for collaboration and are...
A significant problem facing corporate IT today is the vast numbers of power-user and end-user developed business applications written in Notes, ColdFusion, MS-Access or Excel. Why do the end-users continue to build these micro-applications? Because the high costs and effort required to customize the...