Did you know Aras Innovator is a global jetsetter? It's true. Innovator licenses have been issued in 140 countries and counting! Look at all the different places Aras has been downloaded. See an area without a pin? Be the first. With hundreds of downloads…

A while back I posted about gamification and PLM, and the topic is still hot on my mind. But it's not just me; everybody is talking about gamification. And how can they not? It's everywhere! Companies across a variety of industries are trying out, and…

I just watched a great video featuring Leon Lauritsen of Minerva and I wanted to share it with you. To give you some background before watching the video, Leon is talking with a Swedish reporter who doesn't know too much about Aras. Now you are thinking…

From frustrating file management to the convenience of cloud, as technology has advanced over time so too has PLM. PLM was once a humble, paper-based system that tended to be slow, fragmented and a little disorderly, making innovation and product development…

Can you believe it's September already? Although fall may not have officially started, it sure feels like it with kids going back to school, summer houses closing up for the season and Thanksgiving right around the corner! As we look ahead to the fall…

Together with its partners, General Motors produces vehicles in 30 countries, making it one of the world's largest and fastest-growing automotive companies. Learn how GM, with help from IBM, is leveraging Aras for IT Integrated Systems Management with…

Aras Variants Management is one of our most popular Community Solutions with more than 1800 downloads to date. Variants address a particularly complicated aspect of BOM configuration management and are important in Assemble / Build / Configure-to-Order…

By combining features of Microsoft Excel with Aras's Item-level security, Amscan developed a great way to manage data efficiently and easily, enabling users to simply "get to the data they want." When you right click on a column in Aras Innovator , two…

Did you know Aras has a monthly newsletter? Each month we compile the latest PLM news and send it right to your in-box. Check out some of our previous newsletters and subscribe now so you don't miss the next edition! Top 5 Reasons to Sign-Up for the…

Darryl Poore of PSC Group, the developer of our Formula and Recipe Management solution, presents a micro-fraction of all the functionality packed in to this powerful solution If you're not familiar with the Formula and Recipe solution, check it out !…

A slew of Aras Community Events (ACE's) are just around the corner. We kicked off the year with our International event in Troy, MI and continued it with a regional event in Chicago, IL . Up next are a series of events around the globe. Leading with ACE…

Aras's own Nate Brown presents the Requirements Management Solution. This solution allows users to manage their requirements within Aras Innovator, making it possible to map requirements for other ItemTypes in the system. The user interface makes it possible…

As many of you know, we are different from other PLM companies in more ways than one. At our global company meeting this summer some of the employees, board members and investors took the time to tell me exactly how Aras is so different to them. Watch…

Last week, some interesting posts about the storage and analysis of data in PLM systems popped up in the blogs I frequent. The conclusion of these posts? PLM needs to be more like Google – it needs to go beyond conventional taxonomies and make sense of…

Are you a Catia user? If so, we’ve got the perfect PLM solution for you. Created by our partner T-Systems, CATIA V5 PDM Workbench integrates the CAD data directly into the BOM in Aras. But wait, the connector does so much more by enabling reciprocal data…

I just the read the Information Week article about General Motor’s “U-Turn” on outsourcing. GM is turning IT into a value-add and mission critical resource again, instead of just a cost center driven to reduce IT infrastructure costs as its only goal…

While twittering about last week, someone I follow noted "Business Insider article titles make him laugh". So of course I had to click into This Ex-Salesforce Exec Wants To Save The Planet - And Kill Oracle, SAP in the Process . Pretty bold title but…

The latest Service Pack for Aras Innovator Version 9.3 is now available - SP4! This latest service pack includes a variety of new features and enhancements, including improved memory utilization, enhanced reporting services and more. Once cool feature…

DIFFERENT IS… Realizing each company has unique and competitive data and processes. And developing software that adapts to fit your business, rather than expecting your business to change to fit the software. DIFFERENT IS... Accepting that healthy…

Last night I had the pleasure of dining with a group of Aras enthusiasts – partners and users – visiting Aras HQ for a training class. Located on the Merrimack River, the dinner conversation naturally focused on the area’s rich industrial past and before…

Here at Aras, the enterprise open source business model is a driving force behind our company.  It influences the way we think.  The software we create.  And the community we stand with. But we still get asked, “Is this model viable for enterprise software…

The latest Service Pack for Aras Innovator Version 9.3 is now available - SP3! This highly anticipated service pack includes a variety of improvements from SQL Server 2012 support to package import/export utility enhancements and more. One such improvement…

A while back Ralph Grabowski’s upFront.eZine published a piece titled “ Just How Open is Aras with its Open-Source PLM ” which involved my response to another reader’s statement about Aras. To Ralph’s credit, he published a substantial portion of my response…

So what is it about Aras Innovator that keeps Enterprises and Users alike coming back for more? For starters, it’s completely different from any other PLM product in the marketplace. When you compare Aras Innovator with other enterprise software applications…

I just got back from a nice break spent entirely in my home state. Yep, I did the staycation. And you know what? It was great. Of course my return to the office yesterday was met with a mountain of inquiry's, tech tips, story's, ideas, and you know it…