Arena Basics
October 02, 2018

Arena Basics

Michael Hicks | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Arena

We use it across our whole organization from development to production for tracking product BOMs.
  • Documenting and providing a change history
  • Flexibility in creating your own templates
  • Too many steps needed to add a part to a BOM
  • Would like more flexibility in creating templates, specifically routing for approvals
  • It has significantly improved our documentation accuracy.
  • Our company exists in multiple time zones. It allows anyone to access information anytime instead of emailing someone and waiting for them to respond.
  • Price
  • Product Features
  • Third-party Reviews
It was highly recommended by a third party as about the only solution to get data out of Agile and into a usable format.
We both learned a lot during the implementation. It took an incredibly long time, but I don't think Arena had ever worked with a company that had so much information to move into the application. In the end, it worked out. Very satisfied with the implementation team.
Arena is a better bang for the buck. Epicore offers an ERP system that Arena lacks. But I think Arena is great for maintaining BOMs and documentation.
We really only use it for creating and tracking BOMs. It is well suited for that. It's is not well suited for managing inventory or as an ERP system.