The right digital transformation strategy turns recessionary pressures into competitive advantages Businesses continued to respond to new, challenging and ongoing changes in 2022, and to no one’s surprise, this won’t slow down in 2023. While still addressing…

If you tried to perform a routine process with your product lifecycle management (PLM) software, made decisions without accurate data, or collaborated across departmental boundaries using meetings and spreadsheets you’ve likely experienced some level…

The Microsoft Build conference is a field day for Microsoft developers - three days packed with 500+ sessions, 6,000+ attendees, hands-on training, Microsoft product teams, vendors, and more. It's the perfect opportunity to preview the latest features…

ACE 2018 was all about Fast Track to Digital Transformation . Perhaps an obvious theme, given it’s the home of the venerable Indianapolis 500, but when most people think of PLM, velocity is not necessarily what comes to mind. Aras customers, however…

Have you registered for ACE 2017 yet? ACE 2017 Nashville is right around the corner and it’s an event you won’t want to miss.  Held on March 21-23, the conference brings together industry leaders and PLM experts from around the world to connect, collaborate…

With the growth of connected products, leading companies are investigating how they can make use of data from the Internet of Things (IoT) to create product insights they can leverage in their PLM systems.  But whether operating on premise or in the cloud…

Desktop Engineering recently wrote an article about Microsoft's new PLM implementation and the benefits of the innovative approach they took. After many PLM ( product lifecycle management ) implementation attempts that did not meet their standards, Microsoft…

Are you skeptical of the cloud?  Most large companies are, especially when it comes to product lifecycle management . With ever increasing product complexity and cross-discipline product development, many global development teams are discovering that…

Aras on Azure is ideal for business initiatives that must be up and running quickly, those with short-term or finite durations, and programs where eliminating PLM license expenses matters. Watch the video to see what Aras on Azure can do for you:

Independent testing proves that Aras Innovator scales easily to 1,000,000 named users / 250,000 concurrent users. Aras Innovator 10 Running on SQL Server 2014 Scalability Benchmark Methodology and Performance Results report available at www.aras.com…

The results of the largest testing conducted to date in the enterprise PLM industry are in. Testing validates that Aras Innovator 10 can handle very high numbers of concurrent users – 125,000+ – when running on standard server configurations. The independent…

We had a Surface Claus sighting here at Aras over the Holidays! What is Surface Claus, you ask? It's more like whom is Surface Claus? For us, it was Aras CEO Peter Schroer. Peter took on the role at an informal pre-Christmas company gathering when…

The Microsoft Office Connector for Aras makes extending your PLM system to non-technical users easy and approachable. The Office Connector combines the best of both systems: the familiar user interface of Office with the PLM power of Aras, making it a…

I’m often asked: Why can’t we use SharePoint as our PLM system? It’s a legitimate question. After all, SharePoint manages documents, has security, web interface, reporting … even a workflow. It smells like a PLM system and you already own it. So, why…

To wrap up the series of posts I've made over the past few weeks, I'd like to reiterate a few key points: IF YOU HAVEN’T STARTED YOUR PLM IMPLEMENTATION YET You now have some good tips to help you get going in the right direction, including: Clearly…

Recently we introduced a new commercial offering designed specifically for companies that run SolidWorks called Aras EPLM for SolidWorks Enterprise PDM . It's built on top of SolidWorks best selling EPDM system to provide packaged functionality out…

Another community solution added for open download to the community projects site by T-Systems! This new solution " Converter Framework " adds basic functionality to batch-mode file conversions.  The most common use case is to convert a Word document…

Aras just announced an open source PLM solution for SharePoint , so I caught up with Peter Schroer (our CEO) to find out more about it, how it works and who should be excited about it. Here’s what Peter had to say… Jen: What exactly is the SharePoint…