Arena, a PTC business, helps companies to design, produce, and deliver innovative products with a unified cloud-based PLM and QMS platform. Arena understands modern product companies rely on distributed teams and global supply chains to develop products, ensure regulatory compliance (FDA, ISO, ITAR, EAR, and environmental compliance), and respond to customer demands.
Arena states that they have more than 1,400 global
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Arena's cloud-based PLM and QMS solutions include role-based subscriptions to meet diverse team needs with the necessary security to protect product information. Their fixed-fee QuickStart™ implementations supports rapid deployment.
Our company used Microsoft SharePoint along with a paper-based system for document control and quality processes before we implemented Arena. This system often had failings with incorrect versions of documents being used, printed out papers with signatures getting misplaced, …
Arena seemed the easiest to use and the one that can best be configured to our own ways of working and set up in a way that integrates well with our company
I was not involved with SAP when it was evaluated but feedback from others SAP was chosen without full knowledge of ARENA's capabilities in these areas.
I've used SAP, Agile in the past, for PLM, and unless the server is in your office, you cannot configure anything, and should it crash, you as the client are stuck until the issues are resolved. In my 15 plus years using Arena, there has only been one instance where the server …
I have only used a paper system with uploads to a shared network. Paper is more time-consuming, but more in our control. It's much easier to search through Arena than a paper system, however, there is still a learning curve to Arena. Once Arena skills and company knowledge are …
I have used SAP in my previous companies, and while it was a good ERP system, it was not [a] very good document management or quality management system. Arena [PLM and QMS] offers more flexibility to host documents and to perform change management. Arena [PLM and QMS] also …
Arena is much better than QAD in terms of BOMs and ECOs and Revision Control. We use Arena concurrently with SAP and they integrate very well together, which is nice. The integration team was really helpful in making sure that the SAP to Arena functionality runs smoothly, and …