Download >>> ALL SLIDES On Wednesday, May 7th, we had our most recent Aras Community Network event in the Chicago-land area. This time around we've out grown last year's site, and had trouble getting a venue large enough to fit everyone. Lu…

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 solu…

Recently, I was asked by the Product Development & Management Association (PDMA) to present on our innovation and corporate transition to an open model. The PDMA was interested in hearing about our transition: What were the motivating factors? H…

Last week, on March 27th 2007, Motorola University hosted the 2007 Kick-off event of the Aras Community Network. We had some great presenters, a full house, and lots of enthusiasm. Peter led off in the morning with a rousing overview of the move to M…

In an earlier post, I alluded to AML (Adaptive Markup Language) as the "secret sauce" of Innovator.  Most enterprise systems claim some level of XML support, but Innovator takes it a few steps further.  XML, in the form of the AML...

Innovator uses a number of terms that are either completely unique or just defined a little differently than in other systems.  I'll attempt to define a few of them here, with more to come later: ItemType: An ItemType is a construct that de...

I’m often asked what makes Innovator such a great platform to work with, and I wish this were an easier question to answer.  Innovator is so different from other products in the marketplace that I've always found it hard to come up wit...