Aras Achieves Microsoft Status for Advanced PLM Solution Suite

By DE Editors

Aras (Andover, MA), a Microsoft enterprise open-source software solution provider, announced that the Aras Innovator solution suite for product life cycle management (PLM) is enabled on Microsoft SQL Server 2008, thereby earning the company front runner status from Microsoft Corp.

Now customers can innovate and collaborate more effectively, says the company, to develop new products faster. SQL Server 2008 provides the trusted, productive, and intelligent Data Platform for Aras business-critical applications.

Aras delivers a full suite of solutions for PLM, enterprise quality management, and global supplier management. The Aras solutions are enterprise open source on the Microsoft platform, which enables companies to drive business improvement initiatives forward in the face of a challenging economy and IT budget reductions.

The enterprise open-source format from Aras provides freedom from licensing to remove the upfront capital expense for licenses that eliminates corporate expense risk, enable companies to validate solutions prior to commitment and without purchasing licenses, and deliver unlimited users with no incremental license expenses.

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Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company's website.