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Arena Solutions, A Great PLM
September 21, 2018

Arena Solutions, A Great PLM

Danny Dosier | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Arena

Arena has been a great business solution for us for creating and tracking all aspects of our products during and after the R&D stage. ECO and BOM structure and control are far superior to our previous PLM. We've had zero issues with implementing and using Arena as our PLM solution. Before Arena, we had a very hard time tracking certain questions and or issues that would arise during the R&D period of product development. With Arena, we can document and retrace every stage of development leaving no unanswered questions during an otherwise critical stage of business.
  • Great ECO control.
  • Great BOM control.
  • Great security control and with limited vendor access.
  • The ECO signature control is a really great feature.
  • The only thing I can see as an issue for us personally would be the ability to set our password and personally control when we should or should not change it.
  • No other issues that I can think of.
  • Our time to market has been greatly decreased.
  • Our quality has gone way up due to better traceability.
  • Our development process has been greatly refined as Arena has given us much better insight.
  • Price
  • Product Features
  • Product Usability
  • Existing Relationship with the Vendor
Honestly, just the great usability of the product itself. We've been able to refine our development process and traceability since using Arena. We've greatly reduced our time to market thus saving us lots of money in the process. The greatest thing is the use capacity of Arena, you can do so much.
We entered all our data into Arena, uploaded all our BOM's, and everything went smoothly. It took a little time to get used to, but only because of the horrible PLM system we were converting from. We were able to transfer all our data and be up and running by the forecast we had set for ourselves. We've been extremely satisfied with our experience over the past few years.
I have no reference other than the rubbish we were using; don't wish to name names.
If your company is developing any kind of products, I would recommend Arena for tracking all your work and development process. I can't think of a single reason not to have this or at least some type of PLM system in place. You'll find very quickly that spreadsheets, no matter how intricate, will fall short of the insight you could have with Arena Solutions.