Boosting Performance using Next Generation PLM from Aras

In today's complex PLM environments performance is paramount. Yet a lot of global companies with established PLM systems still struggle to achieve acceptable performance in global CAD data management. These days, before you implement a new PLM system you want to know, among other things, that it's going to be faster than your old system. A lot faster. So, as part of their implementation, one of our users recently conducted a whole battery of performance tests on large sets of CAD data to ensure that performance would be acceptable. The testing was conducted on an actual PLM replacement project using the customer's most complex data. This independent report from T-Systems International includes the results from the testing and validates the performance improvements achieved when Aras replaced another leading PLM system. It demonstrates superior scalability, as Aras consistently loaded large CATIA data sets as much as 81% faster than the competition using 1/3 of the server resources - database, server, memory and CPU.

Performance of an enterprise-wide system is a critical aspect of software. Large scale systems may have extensive functionality, however, without sufficient performance those capabilities become unusable. Without a fast and responsive level of performance there is little chance of achieving user acceptance and productivity gains which ultimately undermine the Return On Investment (ROI). Performance in a corporate PLM environment is an all too common challenge that international companies face and are forced to spend significant time and additional unplanned expense to fix.

Many global companies have experience firsthand, the issue of PLM performance is dependent on various factors that are mutually beneficial including – hardware, middle-ware, storage, databases and network configurations, along with the nature of particular customizations within the company’s PLM system itself. Once an existing performance issue has been resolved it is not exceptional for another, different issue to develop. Looking at the peak of the PLM market – a large proportion of global corporations that have embraced a worldwide PLM strategy continue to struggle with PLM performance. These PLM performance issues are specifically acute when the company has knotty procedures and is using the PLM system for CAD Data Management as the total size of Files and Metadata continue to gain exponentially.

Over the past decade, advanced  PLM technologies have come to the marketplace which address these PLM performance pain points, yet there has been hesitancy to transmigrate and move away from the superior technologies. People lean to clutch onto preconceived notions from the past regarding systems and database specifically regarding performance in big scale execution scenarios- even though technological advancement is moving so quickly that new, more modern architectures demonstrate verifiable advantages.