Building open source technology into your PLM strategy Open source software is now widely accepted in industry and cost is not the only reason. Many firms now know that it offers more flexibility than proprietary programs and companies no longer perceive it as riskier than traditional alternatives. This paper discusses Aras Innovator, the open-source enterprise PLM solution from Aras Corporation and explains how its technology and business model challenges existing paradigms in some interesting ways

AESSiS are leaders in helping organisations build world class engineering document control processes and then facilitating, streamlining and automating these processes by careful implementation of appropriate product lifecycle management or PLM technologies. In so doing we help organisations chart their course and find a reliable way through to simplicity, speed and profitability that are so often promised but so rarely fully attaine