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Aras enterprise open solutions are for performance driven companies of all sizes from Fortune 500 enterprises to midsized businesses looking to get an edge on the competition. Companies achieve better customer alignment, greater profit margins, and shorter development cycles with the Aras Innovator enterprise open source solutions.

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ITT Defense Program Lead

It is truly a pleasure to work with such a wonderful set of individuals as those in your company. You and your team should be proud of the responsiveness and support that you provide to your customers.

Again, thanks for all the great support. I look forward to our continued partnership.

ACCO President

Aras provides the type of practical business solution that drives our strategic competitive advantage.

High Tech provider President

Aras enables us to specify the suppliers that are approved for use and limit purchases with certainty to only those vendors.”

Amtech Jay Patel, President

With Aras, cycle time for new product introduction goes from 2-3 weeks to 2-3 days.

Amtech Jay Patel, President

Aras is the only PLM solution the market that is a true Web application.

Phoenix International Brent Evers, Engineering Manager

The bottom line for Phoenix was that we didn't need to pay a dime out of pocket to capitalize on the availability of a ready-for-prime-time, ready-to-go PLM system.

Structural Concepts Corporation Viktor Anderson, Director of Engineering

We are continuously increasing the rate of innovation and streamlining our engineering business operations, and Aras supports both objectives.

Nemak Project Manager

We chose Aras because of demonstrated strength in both PLM and the automotive requirements, and because the flexibility of the solution allowed us to easily adapt it to our proprietary competitive processes while remaining compliant to industry standards.

Fox Gene Trefethen, CEO

With Innovator we will be able to manage our global supply chain more effectively. Some of our larger customers require that we use certain suppliers. Until now we had to manually monitor the procurement process to ensure that the right vendors were used, which resulted in unnecessary costs and subjected the process to potential human error.

Innovator enables us to specify the suppliers that are approved for use and limit purchases with certainty to only those vendors.

Uponor Director of Information Technology

We have targeted and prioritized the business processes we want to automate, and we needed a solution that would allow us to implement at our pace.

ETO Industrial Equipment provider Engineering Manager

The out-of-pocket costs to implement Aras were zero. This assumes of course that you have the hardware and software infrastructure in place to run the database application.

Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates Jim Sutton, Engineering IT Manager

Aras had a blank piece of paper and built it the way it should be built.

Harmony Technologies Software JSC, Vietnam Quang Le, VP Business Dev

We have looked at/studied this platform for the last 6 months, and we are currently rolling it out for our first customer. So far so good... it's a flexible platform w/ lots of functionalities.

Xerox Corp Jared Sund

Have I mentioned how cool Innovator is? ...

Can you believe I didn't have to recompile the source code or anything crazy to make this happen!

In parts of Windchill you have to recompile the java just to change a label on a text field. And, how many emails do I get from Brian noting that he will be taking the ClearQuest system down to perform schema upgrades.

Structural Concepts Corporation President and COO

The growth in our business is a direct result of our innovation and focus on quality.

Carestream Health Bruce Leidal, CIO

We're a progressive company, and we want to work with other forward-thinking companies who can help us eliminate organizational silos and increase collaborative development to achieve a competitive advantage in the marketplace.

In switching to Aras we now have a highly capable, global PLM platform that will allow us to consolidate other systems at will, increasing reuse and improving collaboration without continual capital investment in PLM licenses.

Industrial Engineer to Order President

Your product is awesome!

Aerospace & Defense Systems provider Director, IT

The Aras PLM system essentially becomes a feedback system. If youre using PLM just to capture and store engineering data, then I think you're missing the boat.

PRION Laila Hirr, President

The irony is that all too often, PLM selections are made in the shadow of a CAD selection, being viewed only as a means to handle CAD vaulting. This is a waste and will result in less than optimal use of the PLM system.

Ogihara Dennis Henning, IT Manager

Our goal is to respond to customer issues immediately and Aras enables us to do so.

Carestream Health David Sherburne, Leader of Global R&D Effectiveness

When compared to other PLM suppliers, Aras offered a solution unique to the industry.

High Tech Electronics company Executive

A lot of our suppliers are in Asia and the Aras system had to be intuitive.

CPG company Director

After an extensive review of solutions, Aras is the only one who met our business requirements and our financial objectives.

Aerospace & Defense Contractor Executive Vice President

After reviewing a number of other PLM systems it was clear that Aras was the only solution with the scope we required and the flexibility we desired.

PLM Industry Expert and Blogger Oleg Shilovitsky

Open Source can provide two major advantages for PLM implementation compared to what we have today in PLM – a low entry cost and significant flexibility.

These advantages need to address the regular concerns of enterprises in front of open source software such as certification, legal issues etc.

Therefore, I see Aras's experience in open source as something very interesting, and it requires future investigation and learning.

Comment on Daily PLM Think Tank Blog Andy

I would not have believed the 90% reduction in TCO either before we actually did it. Zero license costs drops the bill a bunch. Very fast deployment time reduces the consulting bill a ton.

Windows look and feel drops the deployment time a bunch. (the last deployment that we did the engineering team didn't even need to be trained on the Aras tool because they were comfortable with the look and feel right from the start).

You add it all up and we've seen ECO projects that cost over $1M and took a year in TeamCenter drop to a few months and $100K in Aras.

Phoenix International Brent Evers, Engineering Manager

It [Aras Innovator] can also be implemented completely independent of Aras assistance. In fact, for small to mid-sized organizations, this might be the preferred method. We learned a lot and implemented the system we needed.

ACCO Brands Bill Bucklew, Global Director of Performance Excellence

Faster time to market, greater innovation, and superior product quality are absolutely critical to us, and Aras Innovator are delivering those benefits by streamlining and improving our product life cycle processes. This is a significant reason we're able to expand our global market share in an increasingly competitive market.

Defense contractor Manufacturing Engineer

We are able to streamline setup and process instruction with clear and organized information.

Varian Semiconductor Jim Sutton, Manager of IT Engineering Systems

The Aras solution is based on Microsoft .NET technology which made integration straightforward and the ownership costs are much lower than comparable systems

CPG company Director, Product Development

We needed a product development content management solution that supports the needs of a rapidly changing environment, and Aras PLM technology is an excellent fit.

Sonnax Mark, PLM Project Manager

This weekend Sonnax went live with a new Customer Complaint system developed in Innovator. This system replaces a home grown legacy system that was proving to be a challenge to maintain.

The new customer complaint system is integrated with the Change Management and QC systems currently in Innovator and now provides the Quality Department with visibility into customer issues and vendor negotiated deviations.

This is the first step in implementing a complete CAPA system and possibly a complete QP system. This system is also integrated with the Sonnax ERP system.

Leiter des VPE an der TU Kaiserslautern und weltweit anerkannter Professor Eigner

Wir nutzen Aras Innovator vor allem deshalb, da sich die Lösung intuitiv bedienen und einfach an Prozessabläufe anpassen lässt. Aufgrund der modell-basierenden SOA-Architektur und des von Aras angebotenen Geschäftsmodells sind wir der Auffassung, dass Aras Innovator gerade für den Mittelstand eine interessante Alternative zu anderen PLM-Lösungen darstellt

Industrial Products provider Quality, Health and Safety, Manager

Aras helps us improve our business performance by controlling costs, quality, and schedules across our entire portfolio of programs while satisfying each customer's specific requirements.

High Tech provider Division IT Services

After reviewing many of the leading PLM providers, Aras offered the overall best fit for our objectives, particularly in areas of adaptability, implementation cost and ease of use.

Dassault SI SmarTeam Consultant

Aras is the fastest PLM system I've ever used... and its all Web screens. It's amazing!

École Centrale Paris Pascal

With web services and a set of AML tags, I already succeed in uploading a CAD model from CATIA V5 to the ARAS vault.

It's very simple, and I do appreciate this simplicity and the NASH interface to test some AML sets!

Semiconductor industry company PDM Analyst

I am very impressed by how this large group has so quickly adapted and accepted the new Aras system.

unknown - posted on Aras Forums Jorge

Viva ARAS!!!

Fox Electronics CEO

With Aras we will be able to manage our global supply chain more effectively.

comment posted on Daily PLM Think Tank Blog AndyF

We switched to Aras because it worked better than any other PLM system that we had tried to use.

Carestream Health David Sherburne, Leader of Global R&D Effectiveness

Our legacy platform was built a long time ago and we knew we didn't have the functionality required for the future; it was time to carefully look at our options. When compared to other PLM suppliers, Aras offered a solution unique to the industry.

Structural Concepts Corporation President and COO

The growth in our business is a direct result of our innovation and focus on quality.

The Aras solution provides us with the ability to further accelerate the pace of our innovation and the visibility we need to target areas for continuous improvement.

NEMAK Alejandro Valdez, Product Engineering and CDT Operations Manager

The ability to modify the Aras solution without programming means that we can quickly and cost effectively improve our processes to capitalize on business opportunities.

Freudenberg Walid Hamza, Project Manager

Aras delivers value to our business while fulfilling the APQP requirements to our customers.

PCC Structurals Dave Rajkumar, IT Applications Manager

Aras meets our business needs. The Aras PLM software suite is extremely flexible, so we can easily tailor it to our specifications, and Aras scales up really well.

Razorleaf Michael Craffey

Gone are the days when people simply accept conventional wisdom that mandated companies use commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software because those companies couldn't risk an open source solution.

AMR Research Kevin OMarah, Chief Strategy Officer

Good selling in the current environment is possible where vendors offer small increments of technology as part of a roadmap for long-term improvement, rather than big lump sum deals with all the risk front-loaded on the user.

Xerox PLM Mgmt

I feel that we're at a tipping point in the industry. Lots of people that we are talking with are frustrated with their monolithic PLM system and they are open to new ideas.

Fox Electronics Gene Trefethen, CEO

We needed improvements in our documentation because our existing ERP systems did not deal with documentation particularly well.

Cosumer Goods company President

Our market is increasingly dynamic and competition continues to intensify so we needed a solution that is both affordable and flexible enough to easily adapt to the conditions.

High Tech Equipment provider IT Engineering Services

With Aras we have a single database that gives us an exact picture of where we stand in regard to customer commitments.

Phoenix International Brent Evers, Engineering Manager

Aside from the obvious benefits of no out-of-pocket upfront costs and no licensing or user costs, we have noted real benefits in implementing Aras Innovator.

Freudenberg-NOK Director

Aras helps us improve our business performance by controlling costs, quality, and schedules across our entire portfolio of programs while satisfying each customer's specific requirements.

Ogihara America Corporation of Howell, MI Dennis Henning, IT Manager

Aras Innovator was chosen by Ogihara after a two-year search that included two rounds of evaluation. After the second round, Aras really bubbled to the top,... It had more capabilities and was more flexible.

Aerospace & Defense Contractor Executive Vice President

We needed a PLM solution that could manage a variety of engineering and manufacturing related functions, and that was able to adapt quickly to changes in our business based on continuous improvement activities.

Sonnax CEO

Aras helps Sonnax continuously elevate our commitment to excellence through superior product quality and service and gives us even more time for personal relationships with our customers.

Amtech Jay Patel, President

I was looking for a PLM system that is Web-oriented and role based, and Aras provided me both. With Aras, I can literally change the way I run my business to give me the competitive advantage I need, when I need it.

Fortune 100 High Tech manufacturer PLM Manager

You guys are going to blow up the entire PLM industry. If Microsoft starts to ship Innovator bundled in with SharePoint then you instantly become the biggest PLM vendor in the world.

Uponor Director of Information Technology

Aras gave us the flexibility to install the software we needed when we needed it and scale up over time.

MiTek Corporation Kevin Friske, Database Administrator

We expected the typical PLM system and that’s not Aras. Aras is different. They don’t do things like everyone else and it wasn’t until we saw an Aras demo that we realized what a unique and powerful solution it is.

Phoenix International Brent Evers, Engineering Manager

Aras Innovator greatly extends the concept of relationships to all supporting documents, including 3D CAD models, schematics, PCB layouts, CAM / MFG files, software, mechanical drawings, assembly instructions, test plans, photos, requirements documents, etc.

Gartner Marc Halpern, VP Research for PLM

PLM architectures must provide easy means for customization and integration to keep the total cost of ownership as low as possible and to quicken the time to achieve a return on investment.

Areospace & Defense Manufacturer PLM Leader

The "buzz" on ARAS around here is very positive, and a lot of the folks who worked on the TeamCenter POC with me are anxious for a glimpse of what Innovator can do...

Freudenberg-NOK Director

Aras really hit a home run with the functionality we required to make our deployment successful.

MiTek Corporation Kevin Friske, Database Administrator

We want to know what it costs to produce a product, including the employee time, and with Aras we can find out.

Nemak Project Manager

We entered into our selection process with a long list of requirements, including product data management, engineering change management, project control and oversight, cost management and APQP compliance.

Large High Tech Manufacturer PLM Group Manager

We are considering replacing Windchill (our existing PLM system) and have been evaluating other PLM solutions. We started looking at Aras Innovator and so far we like it based on the functionality and pricing.

MiTek Corporation Kevin Friske, Database Administrator

The President and the COO said Aras was the way to go

Rolls-Royce Senior Manufacturing Engineer

Because Innovator is intuitively easy to learn and use, new employees really only require a minimal amount of training to become proficient.

Global Auto Supplier IT Manager

We started using Innovator at the rev. 7.0 in 2006 and for the past 2 years successfully implemented several Innovator solutions globally .... We also have a couple custom solutions developed in Innovator that are used globally as well.

MiTek Corporation Kevin Friske, Database Administrator

The President and the COO said it was the way to go. The fact that it is free to download certainly helped, but it was Aras’s comprehensive functionality that won us over.

MiTek Corporation Kevin Friske, Database Administrator

The ability to take employees with no programming skills who can’t write code and make them fully functional in Aras was critical to our success. With Aras they can create every item needed to build a functional process. No other product has this capability.

MiTek Corporation Kevin Friske, Database Administrator

Because Aras is a web-based solution, managers can see the status of any project, at any time, from any location and so can our president. And our president can tell if a project has stalled, where it’s stalled and why. We simply didn’t have that information before

Delsit Australia Lloyd Rixon, BAppSci Information & MSc Computing

I have personally found Innovator to be extremely well designed both architecturally and in its Change Management logic making it, in my opinion, the true leader in PLM software at this time. After working with the offerings from other PLM vendors (Siemens, PTC and MatrixOne/Enovia) in past projects; Innovator has proven itself to be by far the most flexible and easy to implement. It has been a pleasure to work with such good software.

Semiconductor industry company PDM Analyst

After only 1 week of having gone live with Aras, the group decided to stop using the paper system without anyone pushing them to do it.

I am very impressed by how this large group has so quickly adapted and accepted the new Aras system.

Gartner - Cool Vendors in Product Design and Life Cycle Management, 2010 Marc Halpern, VP Research for PLM

Gartner is seeing increased interest and adoption [of Aras] from manufacturers and PLM service providers. One well-known manufacturer with approximately 1,800 seats deployed validated that Aras's Innovator software performs as well as, if not better than, the expensive software that it displaced.

The manufacturer reported that the cost to deploy the Aras open-source offering was 2.5% of the highest quote from more-mainstream PLM vendors for the same functionality.

Carestream Health Bruce Leidal, CIO

Gartner Research Director

It [Aras] addresses some of the key processes that frankly cost companies a lot of money, the ECO process, and data management. If a business gets that under control, they have made a lot of progress from where they were.

NEMAK Victor Moreno, Project Manager

The flexibility of the solution allowed us to easily adapt it to our proprietary competitive processes while remaining compliant to industry standards.

High Tech provider CEO

We have a measurably better handle on our revision controls because the Aras software does it automatically.

NEMAK Victor Moreno, Project Manager

Xerox PLM Mgr

... Bottom line is that after just a few days of development the team is working with a new tool and solving business problems.

CIMdata, Leading PLM Market Analyst Ed Miller

Aras' proven ability to quickly develop enterprise applications and business solutions is impressive. This ability speaks to the robustness of the underlying architecture of Innovator and its ability to quickly and inexpensively satisfy new business requirements.

This is a total cost of ownership issue that is greatly appreciated by all enterprises no matter what their size.

SRC Project Engineer

By using Aras online workflow we will be reducing our cycle time and administrative costs and improving our overall manufacturing efficiencies.

Ogihara Dennis Henning, IT Manager

With Aras we use what we need, end of story.

Aras Corp Peter Schroer, Founder

Most of our partners start very dubious…they join the Aras partner program due to the open source business model as a way to create more consulting, but they all have the idea that somehow Windchill, or eMatrix or TeamCenter is actually still the superior architecture.

Before the end of the first training day, each and every Partner is in my office, raving about the Aras model-based architecture. It's like a religious conversion. I keep a supply of straight-jackets behind my door for the most extreme converts - the ones with TeamCenter experience.

Phoenix International Brent Evers, Engineering Manager

Aras Innovator is also a real out-of-the-box solution. The rewards of implementing this robust, stable, and well-supported system are immediately tangible and we expect our PLM system to reveal even more benefits in the future.

Comment posted on Daily PLM Think Tank Blog AndyF

At the end of the day I don't really care if Aras is open source or not. The licenses are free, the software works, and I can exchange ideas with other users. That model works great for us.

ACCO President

Our market is increasingly dynamic and competition continues to intensify so we needed a solution that is both affordable and flexible enough to easily adapt to the conditions.

Phoenix International Brent Evers, Engineering Manager

We decided to download and install Innovator and experiment, using the talents of our software engineers. We figured, if nothing else, we'd learn enough to make a better-informed decision later.

ACCO Vice President, Operations

After reviewing many of the leading PLM providers, Aras offered the overall best fit for Swingline's objectives, particularly in areas of adaptability, implementation cost and ease of use.

CIMdata, Leading PLM Market Analyst Peter Bilello

The underlying technology and architecture are designed to scale to multi-site and high user-count installations to meet the requirements of larger organizations.

Fox Electronics Gene Trefethen, CEO

The bottom line for Fox is that Aras enables us to serve our customers better, improve our quality, and significantly reduce our costs all at the same time.

High Tech Electronics company Executive

A lot of our suppliers are in Asia and the Aras system had to be intuitive, since many of them may not be familiar with PLM technology.

Aerospace & Defense supplier Director, Program Management

How does anyone use anything but Aras? The technology stack and subscriber price points beat the competition, hands down.

Fortune 100 High Tech PLM Manager

You guys don't need a sales force but you might want to hire a shrink or two! Some of your customers might need some counseling on how to deal with the loss of their multi-million dollar WindChill or TeamCenter investment.

CNT Configuration Manager

Aras was the only PLM solution that fit both our functional requirements and need for incremental deployment.

Phoenix International Brent Evers, Engineering Manager

Our company's 'homebrew' OrCAD integration is tightly coupled to Aras Innovator. Parts are uploaded directly to Innovator and appear near instantaneously in OrCAD Capture Component Information System (CIS).

Each electronic part's characteristic is entered by the user via a drop-down menu of predefined variables, precluding variation and ensuring that parts are entered accurately. Part descriptions are generated from characteristics, ensuring consistency and avoiding duplication.

Anders Electronics (posted on Aras Forums) PLM Developer

The application is awesome.

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