Product category:
PLM and Product Life Cycle software
News Release from: Aras Corp | Subject: Aras Innovator enterprise software
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 30 April 2008
PLM provider also offers product quality
planning
Aras provides a suite of software for enterprise PLM, new product development and advanced product quality planning enabling users to collaborate and innovate more effectively.
Aras has expanded operations throughout Europe, Middle East, and Africa [EMEA] and opened an EMEA headquarters office in Solothurn, Switzerland, to meet the growing demand for the Aras Innovator enterprise software solutions As part of the expansion, Aras plans to add sales and support operations and extend the partner network across the region to provide local geographical representation
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 26 Jan 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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Aras provides the Aras Innovator suite of software for enterprise product lifecycle management (PLM), new product development and introduction, and advanced product quality planning enabling companies to collaborate and innovate more effectively.
President of CIMdata, Ed Miller, said: "Companies of all sizes around the world increasingly recognize the strategic importance of an enterprise-wide PLM strategy that helps them achieve better collaboration and innovative to drive profitability".
He continued: "Aras' open source model provides a new value proposition for the PLM market that a number of companies will find attractive, with the elimination of software license expenses companies no longer need up-front capital".
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Aras Innovator provides complete access for unlimited users at no cost.
Because there is no charge for the enterprise production-ready software, Aras removes the need for up-front capital and eliminates expensive software licensing requirements for users, modules, and servers.
Vice president EMEA for Aras, Martin Allemann, said: "Businesses are demanding a new approach that delivers results.
Microsoft enterprise open source provides more innovation and better value than conventional systems can ever achieve".
Allemann added: "Our expansion brings a proven alternative to companies throughout the region that offers both significant business benefits and the most advanced enterprise solutions available for PLM business processes".
Available exclusively on the Microsoft .NET platform, Aras Innovator's open enterprise service-oriented architecture [SOA] delivers extensive flexibility enabling companies to deploy quickly and adapt easily while maintaining upgradeability.
Manager of PLM and Collaboration at Freudenberg FDS, Axel Vondermuehl, commented: "Freudenberg Dichtungs- und Schwingungstechnik's [FDS] multi-national roll-out for advanced product quality planning [APQP] using the Aras enterprise PLM solution is the first time a company-wide standard system has been implemented this quickly and easily".
Vondermuehl said: "As the global corporate standard, Aras will be used at 20 sites across 6 countries.
The added control of the open model combined with Aras Innovator's advanced enterprise SOA on Microsoft enables us to increase efficiency through business processes standardization while providing us with greater flexibility than previously possible with conventional systems".
* About Aras - Aras is the leader in providing Microsoft enterprise open source solutions.
Aras delivers the most advanced model-based service-oriented architecture [SOA] solutions for enterprise Product Lifecycle Management [PLM] on the Microsoft platform.
Customers include Motorola, Rolls-Royce, Freudenberg, Lockheed Martin, Ingersoll Rand and ACCO Brands.
Aras is privately held with global headquartered in Andover, Massachusetts, USA.
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