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…

Recently, Graham McCall at AESSiS wrote a pretty good blog post titled “ Why Some People Don’t Like PLM ”. It’s a good re-post here and figured I’d include my own 2 cents as well. First, here’s Graham’s perspective: I thought it might be a good idea…

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…

Heard about this ultra-short video by Prodeos which answers the age old question "What is PLM?" ... in 3 minutes or less. Really thought it was great. Check it out. [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMRSwPxP5c0

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…

In a typical 10,000 person company there are probably 50-100 full-time 3D CAD engineers. So how come these few CAD users and their CAD software vendors so often drive the selection of an enterprise PLM system that will likely touch thousands of users…

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 COFES (aka Congress On the Future…

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 - These…

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…

Last week Aras was launched in Greater China. The interest level in the Microsoft open approach for PLM and Quality management solutions is particularly high throughout the region. Businesses in Asia are increasingly recognizing the need for PLM solutions…

A few days back, Oleg over at Daily PLM Think Tank did another good post titled PLM, Cloud, SaaS and Software Upgrades . It looks at several different software delivery trends (i.e. on-premise vs in-cloud) to really get at what I consider a major issue…

Was reading Managing Automation’s blog The Edge by Jeff Moad and he poses the question, “ Where Did All the Big Software Deals Go? ” Jeff says: …lingering reluctance on the part of manufacturers to commit to significant technology purchases contradicts…

The way enterprise PLM software is licensed to businesses is wrong, end of story. Pay now. Pay later. Pay extra. Pay more. Traditional PLM licensing schemes are complicated, confusing, expensive, and broken… and their days are numbered. To understand…

Change management processes are difficult enough to master, however, when you introduce change notification across the supply chain there is another order of magnitude in the challenge. Most company’s focus on getting review and approval automated.…

Everyone wants it their way… and that’s a good thing. Choice. That’s what ensures we have cloths that fit, styles we like, food we enjoy, and (in the business software world) systems that work for our specific industry practices and processes. Today…

Where is enterprise PLM software headed from a technology architecture stand-point? And even more broadly, where is enterprise software headed in general? If you are an enterprise architect or have broad responsibility for corporate IT enterprise applications…

Just read today’s CIMdata newsletter which includes a poll on the impact of the global recession on PLM initiatives. The results and analysis highlight some pertinent information. CIMdata explains the data and goes on to conclude that: …just over half…

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…

A few days ago Jim Brown at Tech-Clarity had posted on “the impact of the economy on the engineering software industry?”… This topic is a bit different than the implications for end user customer companies. The emphasis is on the engineering software…

Have been having discussions about Lean Product Development in various groups on LinkedIn (PDMA, PLM Group, etc). One of the important implications that has surprisingly not come up in the discussions is how different product development technologies…

Over the past couple months Jeff Cope at Extensible CAD Technologies has been doing a detailed product review of the Aras PLM software solution suite for the CAD community site ConnectPress. This is a pretty good overview of the solution functionality…

Welcome to the Aras Corporate Blog. We started this blog to share our thoughts, get your insights, and have some fun with the topic of enterprise software solutions. We all know a change has been needed for some time, yet no one has clearly identified…

Wanted to share this article from Fortune Magazine / CNN Money website called 'Big Software has duped us for decades'. Roger Burkhardt does a pretty good job of describing how enterprise software licensing actually works... I've included some excerpts…