Aras Corporation is pleased to provide a response to an RFP/RFQ for a Product Lifecycle Management Solution. As you will see by the enclosed information, Aras is uniquely qualified to meet the complete requirements of XXXXXXX with the industry’s most comprehensive and flexible PLM solution. We invite XXXXXXX to join Aras’s growing open source PLM community.
Only the Aras platform is based on a modern, model-based service-oriented architecture that redefines the economics and possibilities for deploying software that empowers end-users and enables businesses to meet and exceed their objectives.
· Every manufacturing company is different and these differences are the competitive advantage that separate leaders from commodity suppliers. XXXXXXX leads the market with innovative processes and ideas, and impressive growth rates; the XXXXXXX differences are clearly a competitive business advantage.
· All companies change. Business change is a healthy and necessary process to maintain leadership. To remain static is to stagnate and join the masses of the commodity manufacturers. Critical business systems must evolve and change with the business and market conditions.
· XXXXXXX needs a PLM system that can support their edge now, and through all future process changes driven by growth, new opportunities and responses to external competitive threats. An out-of-the-box PLM system that imposes “best practices” processes, that are not consistent with XXXXXXX’s processes, compromises the company’s edge and drives it to become a clone of the commodity manufacturers.
· Aras Innovator is proven to deliver vastly scalable, robust and flexible solutions that can be deployed quickly and iteratively adapted to meet evolving needs and requirements in a fraction of the time required by conventional technologies.
Only Aras can deliver a single solution that includes all of XXXXXXX Parts, Materials, BOMs, Formulas, Packaging, Supply Chain and Labeling data and processes in a uniform, consolidated database; accessible by the entire extended enterprise.
· Many PLM products were developed through the acquisition of un-related software companies, which were then stapled together into a fusion of marketing hype and called a solution. Data is not integrated, processes do not flow and connect, and the end-to-end solution only works within PowerPoint.
· Aras Innovator was designed from day-one in 2000 to be a platform for multi-application suites. All of the applications developed by Aras, by partners and by our community members are inherently integrated, with merged data models, and all run simultaneously. With one logon, your end-users have access to all of their data and processes.
· Aras Innovator is the only enterprise PLM with a completely Web-based open architecture that allows 100% of the functionality in a simple Web interface. All XXXXXXX employees, the extended enterprise of trading partners and suppliers, and even your customers will be connected to a single, holistic system, with military-grade security access controls.
Aras's proven, comprehensive solutions and novel open community approach meet the needs of organizations who share a common goal: Operational Excellence. We encourage XXXXXXX to join industry leaders such as Xerox, Motorola and many more using the Aras Enterprise Open Source approach to PLM.