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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...
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The announcement yesterday that Oracle will acquire Sun Microsystems (New York Times: In Sun, Oracle Sees a Software Gem ) further confirmed the voracious appetite that Oracle has for tech industry stalwarts. In the engineering software space everyone knows that PTC has been actively seeking an acquirer...
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The way enterprise PLM software is licensed to businesses is wrong, end of story. Pay now. Pay later. Pay extra. Pay more. Traditional PLM licensing schemes are complicated, confusing, expensive, and broken… and their days are numbered. To understand this requires experiencing it first-hand. Get...
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The latest Aras PLM software release download is now available on the web site. This major release incorporates dozens of corporate community contributions constituting hundreds of innovative features and enhancements including: ECO / MCO simple engineering change workflows New Redline compare capabilities...
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A few days ago Jim Brown at Tech-Clarity had posted on “the impact of the economy on the engineering software industry?”… This topic is a bit different than the implications for end user customer companies. The emphasis is on the engineering software products and associated PLM vendors...
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Over the past couple months Jeff Cope at Extensible CAD Technologies has been doing a detailed product review of the Aras PLM software solution suite for the CAD community site ConnectPress. This is a pretty good overview of the solution functionality and features in Aras, and in his latest installment...
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In December the Aras Community Network had two events in Taiwan organized by Broadway Consulting Services and sponsored by National Formosa University, Cardinal Tien College, and Microsoft. The sessions were conducted in Taipei and Taichung. Over 80 people came to each session to learn about the enterprise...
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Download >>> PLM SLIDES The Aras community has really grown internationally over the past year and on October 17th we held the first European community event to get people together, collaborate, and share. Once again Microsoft stepped up and provided us with a great venue in Munich Germany for...
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Download >>> ALL SLIDES On Wednesday, May 7th, we had our most recent Aras Community Network event in the Chicago-land area. This time around we've out grown last year's site, and had trouble getting a venue large enough to fit everyone. Luckily Microsoft stepped up and was generous enough host...
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Last week Aras was launched in Greater China. The interest level in the Microsoft open approach for PLM and Quality management solutions is particularly high throughout the region. Businesses in Asia are increasingly recognizing the need for PLM solutions as they move up the value chain and concentrate...