Happy new year to everyone! We’re looking forward to a great 2012, and looking back at 2011 it was another record breaker. I n addition to achieving record sales and double digit growth again (that’s 5 years in a row for anyone counting), we increased our customer base by over 43% to 296...
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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-of-the-box for global PLM business processes...
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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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Walking the floor at SolidWorks World 2011 in San Antonio I saw some outstanding examples of cool product design, and heard more cool stories and great discussions about 3D design and product innovation in the breakout sessions. But what really got my attention was the NASA story. Jim Lovell and Gene...
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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By every measure 2010 was another record year here at Aras. Here’s a quick summary in case you missed some of the details along the way, as well as, some highlights that you won’t find anywhere else. This year it became undeniably clear that our advanced technology and value proposition are...
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Heard about this ultra-short video by Prodeos which answers the age old question "What is PLM?" ... in 3 minutes or less. Really thought it was great. Check it out.
A discussion on Oleg’s blog Beyond PLM made me think about the motivations and incentives of open source as an approach for developing software and how it fits with associated business models. The post was titled “ PLM and Open Source Licenses ” and covered a lot of good points, however...
Recently, Graham McCall at AESSiS wrote a pretty good blog post titled “ Why Some People Don’t Like PLM ”. It’s a good re-post here and figured I’d include my own 2 cents as well. First, here’s Graham’s perspective: I thought it might be a good idea to examine...
Since Aras moved to an open source distribution model in 2007, I’ve had more than one exasperated CIO ask me why I won’t “sell” him my software. This always makes me laugh a little, after all, who likes being SOLD anything? But that’s what we’ve all come to expect...