CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
30 August 2004
Product News
Arena Solutions Breaks New Ground in Affordable, Accessible High-Performance PLM with Innovative TrueEdge Pack
Arena Solutions, Inc. introduced a new offering that makes PLM easily accessible and eminently affordable for emerging growth customers. Like all Arena offerings, the new TrueEdge Pack can be implemented in a matter of days, and it provides the true depth of functionality and performance fast-growing companies need, at a highly attractive price.
The TrueEdge offering is designed for young companies that want to get started with PLM early, but require a comprehensive, full-strength solution. It gives these companies and their suppliers access to a rich, full-featured PLM environment that includes Arena's product data repository bundled with an extensive array of PLM management tools, including Manufacturer Management, Vendor & Cost Management, Request Management, Change Management, and Advanced File Management.
The baseline offer includes 15 in-house licenses and an innovative "floating supplier license" that allows numerous suppliers to share a single license. In-house licenses include a mix of full and read-only licenses. Additional read-only licenses can be acquired at a low price, making it possible for customers to affordably provide everyone involved in the product development and manufacturing process access to Arena PLM. Pricing for the TrueEdge Pack begins at only $1,200 a month.
Arena PLM is built from the ground up as a highly scalable and configurable web-native application that is securely accessed as an Internet-based service by all customers. There is no hardware or software to setup, configure or install. Because Arena PLM is a true on-demand service, customers can be up and running on the solution as quickly as in a matter of days.
"Arena made it possible for Ario Data Networks to move onto its on-demand PLM solution in just 3 days. The speed of implementation was exceptional and critical to our business because we needed to be in market as fast as possible with our new products," said Bal Singh, Vice President of Operations, Ario Data Networks. "Arena delivers far better ROI with much less pain of adoption than the client/server PLM solution I used at my last company. The new TrueEdge offer builds on that value proposition."
Until Arena, PLM was offered only as client/server software. However, client/server applications cannot match the benefits of on-demand solutions, such as ease of deployment, cost of ownership, return on investment and speed of innovation. Some client/server vendors are now reacting to the success of on-demand PLM and other on-demand enterprise applications by offering hosted configurations. In reality, these hosted client/server applications still embody the same high costs, complexities and limitations of typical client/server deployments. Hosted client/server is generally implemented on a minimal hardware configuration with multiple single points of failure. By comparison, Arena's web-native service is built from the ground up on a highly secure and available financial services-grade infrastructure with local and off-site redundancy and the ability to provide controlled access across complex supply chains.
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