Every once in a while, I get a call from a CIO who says “my team is looking at your software.  We like it and it works well, but I’m a little concerned about going with open source.” The first thing I tell them is that open sou...

In a recent post his blog, PLM Think Tank, Oleg Shilovitsky wrote about the PLM Open Source Tradeoff.  I shared my thoughts on the piece and I am wondering what you think. Here’s what I think… “I’m old enough to remember when the safest decision in...

Feedback we’ve gotten ‘loud & clear’ at previous community events was that people want a way to see the Community Solutions in action. So, this year at ACE 2010 we tried something new. Peter got the idea from this year’s C...

Saw a Discussion on LinkedIn "PLM" group titled "Disconnect between OOTB PLM Functionalities and Customer requirements". The post said: Many of the PLM solutions have came up from big customers who had developed the sysytem for their own usage - Thes...

Download >>> ZIP of ALL SLIDES This year's international Aras Community Event (ACE) took place on May 10-11, 2010 and was hosted by Motorola at their worldwide headquarters in Schaumburg, IL. We really appreciate Motorola's generosity and h...