Yes, There’s Value in the Cloud. And it’s Way More Than Just Fancy Hosting. Right now, the buzz in the business world is all about cloud enablement - hosting, storage, etc., and establishing the infrastructure of the cloud. Frankly, I don’t see what…

Every day I talk to people who are frustrated with their PLM system, implementation, progress, deployment, whatever… The fact is, lots of PLM projects get stuck (well, not Aras projects) and some never get off the ground. I sat down with Aras’s Peter…

Everyone knows that Aras Innovator has a powerful workflow service/engine under the covers for complex business process management like enterprise engineering change, supplier corrective actions and other complicated processes. What people sometime don…

Yesterday Deelip and others from the 3D Insiders' Summit 2010 tweeted this quote from an automotive CIO: "CAD geometry is 1/20 of what it takes to produce and maintain a part.” My reaction? EXACTLY!! And we’ve been saying it for years. What got me fired…

Aras just announced an open source PLM solution for SharePoint , so I caught up with Peter Schroer (our CEO) to find out more about it, how it works and who should be excited about it. Here’s what Peter had to say… Jen: What exactly is the SharePoint…

A discussion on Oleg’s blog Beyond PLM made me think about the motivations and incentives of open source as an approach for developing software and how it fits with associated business models. The post was titled “ PLM and Open Source Licenses ” and…

If you haven’t seen the PLM Internationalization capabilities in Aras yet, then you might want to check out these demo videos by Aras Japan   http://www.aras.jp/ It always surprises me that people don’t realize that Aras has the most robust Internationalization…

Since Aras moved to an open source distribution model in 2007, I’ve had more than one exasperated CIO ask me why I won’t “sell” him my software. This always makes me laugh a little, after all, who likes being SOLD anything? But that’s what we’ve all come…

“Obfuscation” is the term for scrambling of the data and/or table names, property names within the PLM database. This is the way the other major PLM / PDM systems were / are designed. The database table for the Part Master is not called / labelled…

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 source approaches to software…

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…

The latest Aras PLM software release download is now available on the web site. This major release incorporates dozens of corporate community contributions constituting hundreds of innovative features and enhancements including: ECO / MCO simple engineering…