Aras Innovator is openly distributed using the enterprise open source business model. Companies can download Aras Innovator from the Aras web site www.aras.com and deploy all functionality to unlimited end-users both internally and throughout the supply chain.
Community add-on solutions are also available that have been contributed by other companies and Aras partners. Most of these solutions are available open source, and a few are commercial solutions with software license or subscription fees. Enterprise Open Source -- openly distributed, flexible, scalable and robust business software solutions with commercial enterprise class support provided by a single for-profit company, in which both the source code for the software solutions and the ideas behind the implemented best practices are openly shared between like-minded enterprises.
Aras sells annual UNLIMITED Support Subscriptions, training services and consulting implementation projects. The enterprise class support includes live support, software patches and security updates. Aras can also provide consulting services ranging from PLM Planning Workshops and Quick Starts to a full turnkey implementation for either on-site deployment or a hosted solution.