Download >>> ZIP of ALL SLIDES This year's international Aras Community Event (ACE) took place on May 10-11, 2010 and was hosted by Motorola at their worldwide headquarters in Schaumburg, IL. We really appreciate Motorola's generosity and hospitality, thanks to everyone behind the scenes...
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...