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Today on the Beyond PLM blog , Oleg points out a number of FACTS and makes some good arguments in his post Future PLM Platforms and SAP / Oracle Technological Wars . The problem with this analysis though is that it disregards the macro trends and looks backward to draw conclusions about the future. It...
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It's been another wonderful year to be a part of the Aras team. Throughout the year our Community worked together, pushed us further, and permanently impacted the PLM world. The theme for 2011, World of The Possible, lead the global Aras PLM Community to accomplish more than ever before - more solutions...
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This month there was a good article by CIMdata on the PLM/CAD community web sites titled “ Open-Source and PLM Marketplace Maturity ” which explains the benefits for companies and the implications for the PLM market that are resulting from the business model innovation inherent in open source...
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Thu, Sep 29 2011
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Download Slides >>> ZIP of ALL SLIDES (warning, it's 52 Meg) ACE 2011 International was in Dearborn, Michigan this year, and our theme was the “World of the Possible”. It was the best ACE to date and the agenda was packed with overviews of Aras solutions, case studies, PLM best...
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Thu, May 5 2011
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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 to PDF. The graphic below is a quick preview...
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Fri, Mar 25 2011
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You know Aras is flexible and open but if you aren't sure where to start, or you want to begin with established best practices and incorporate your own tweaks, Aras includes lots of business ready solutions right out of the box - err, right from the moment of download! To give you a preview of all...
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Sat, Mar 19 2011
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Understanding the economic advantages & financial benefits of the enterprise open source format in PLM is important when building a corporate business case for a PLM strategy. There are a number of factors that your team will want to consider when conducting an evaluation, with two of the most important...
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Fri, Jan 28 2011
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An article was forwarded to me recently and I can see why. It’s a commentary by Eric Gries at Network World about a recent interview with Red Hat CEO, Jim Whitehurst. Eric’s commentary is titled The Widening Value Gap Between Open Source and Commercial Software . As always, Jim makes a strong...
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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 Collaborative Product Develop (CPD) solution...
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In a typical 10,000 person company there are probably 50-100 full-time 3D CAD engineers. So how come these few CAD users and their CAD software vendors so often drive the selection of an enterprise PLM system that will likely touch thousands of users around the world? Why do the needs of these few weigh...
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Recently, there was a good article on the CAD community web sites titled “ Textron and Other Fortune 500 Companies Move to Aras Enterprise Open Source PLM Software ” that outlined how major global companies are switching to Aras. It includes some of their reasons for picking Aras over other...
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Wanted to share this article from Fortune Magazine / CNN Money website called 'Big Software has duped us for decades'. Roger Burkhardt does a pretty good job of describing how enterprise software licensing actually works... I've included some excerpts and added a few reader comments as well...
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Was reading Managing Automation’s blog The Edge by Jeff Moad and he poses the question, “ Where Did All the Big Software Deals Go? ” Jeff says: …lingering reluctance on the part of manufacturers to commit to significant technology purchases contradicts a core argument made over...
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This month’s Desktop Engineering has an editorial by Peter Schroer, Aras President and Founder, about the impact of the recession on product development and engineering at global corporations. The implications range from the need for new products that will fuel the recovery and strengthen competitiveness...
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Our new open download of the Aras enterprise PLM software suite is the latest in the series of feature-packed releases (some openly available while others are subscriber-only like Service Packs, Security Updates, Hot Fixes, etc) has been up on the site for a bit. This one is a major release that incorporates...