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On one hand, we're getting promising news about the growth in manufacturing in the US and Asia (but with Europe a little less confident). On the other hand, the words "double-dip recession" are in the business press every day. Gartner is recommending that CIOs prepare for a potential round...
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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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This month we went to Amsterdam for CMII Europe . Well… I didn’t go but Rolf and Antoine from our partner Minerva went and said there were some really excellent presentations and great insights shared. Here are some of their notes from the conference. CMII Europe brings companies from across...
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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...
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Yoann Maingon at Prodeos strikes again with another practical (and very cool) add-on. This time it’s a preview of the new AutoCAD integration for Aras Innovator that Prodeos has done. Main features: DWG transfer from AutoCAD to Aras Innovator DWF or PDF creation for visualization Thumbnail creation...
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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...
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Feedback we’ve gotten ‘loud & clear’ at previous community events was that people want a way to see the Community Solutions in action. So, this year at ACE 2010 we tried something new. Peter got the idea from this year’s COFES (aka Congress On the Future of Engineering Software...
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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...
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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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So, last week Aras was at the PLM Summit 2009 in Miami Fla. This conference appears to be emerging as the thought leadership event for global enterprise PLM strategies. I was impressed (again) by the cross-industry line-up of speakers and the breadth of topics. Here’s a sampling of some of the...
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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...
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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...