My review of Arena
October 02, 2018

My review of Arena

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Arena

Arena is being used by the organization to track configurations of various items developed by the company. The feature that is used most in Arena is the Bill of Material feature. The Bill of Material feature provides a concise list of items required for our contractors to build each one of the items.

Pros

  • Bill of materials for assemblies
  • Development of change orders
  • Ability to use the same items in different product assemblies

Cons

  • An easier way to export a bill of materials
  • An easier method to add users
  • An easier method to add items to the category tree
  • Easier to track changes in the product line
  • Ability to set up qualification testing builds
  • Minimizes costs by providing exact items needed for builds
  • Product Features
Arena was purchased prior to my joining the company so I had no input into the recommendation to purchase Arena. From my understanding, though, Arena was purchased because it provided what the company thought they needed at the time of purchase. However, Arena seems to be continually updated with better and better features.
I have not used any other products.
I'm not sure if I would recommend Arena just because of the fact I have no experience with any other tools to compare it against. I'm sure that there may be tools better suited for different situations. For our purposes, Arena seems to do the required job sufficiently for us.

Comments

  • Lori Austin | TrustRadius Reviewer
    Thank you for your recent review of Arena. We appreciate the time you invested to communicate your organization’s use of Arena. I understand that exporting can be a bit tricky due to the volume of choices that the user is provided. Once you narrow down the selections you can save the export and utilize it over and over again. Depending on the what you would like to do with the data there may be some other options we can explore with you. Feel free to reach out to me at laustin@arenasolutions.com for more information about export or to discuss users and categories. I look forward to hearing from you soon.

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