Aras Corporation is an American developer and publisher of product development software, Aras Innovator. The product is used for

product lifecycle management In industry, product lifecycle management (PLM) is the process of managing the entire lifecycle of a product from its inception through the engineering, design, and manufacture, as well as the service and disposal of manufactured products. ...

(PLM) and other purposes. Since 2007, Aras has been providing Aras Innovator for free as " Enterprise open-source software", with Aras Corp providing

technical support Technical support, commonly shortened as tech support, is a customer service provided to customers to resolve issues, commonly with consumer electronics. This is commonly provided via call centers, online chat and email. Many companies provid ...

, software updates, and other consulting as a subscription service. Aras Corp was founded in 2000 in

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by Peter Schroer. Aras Innovator is an

enterprise software Enterprise software, also known as enterprise application software (EAS), is computer software used to satisfy the needs of an organization rather than its individual users. Enterprise software is an integral part of a computer-based information ...

suite for managing product lifecycle management business processes. The product is based on the

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.NET Framework and SQL Server. The product is used for

(PLM), advanced product quality planning (APQP), lean product development, product quality control, collaborative product development and new product introduction (NPI). Until 2007, Aras sold their product as

proprietary software Proprietary software is computer software, software that grants its creator, publisher, or other rightsholder or rightsholder partner a legal monopoly by modern copyright and intellectual property law to exclude the recipient from freely sharing t ...

for enterprises. In 2007, Aras began providing Aras Innovator as

open-source software Open-source software (OSS) is Software, computer software that is released under a Open-source license, license in which the copyright holder grants users the rights to use, study, change, and Software distribution, distribute the software an ...

. Clients obtain the software for free, and Aras Corp provides

, software updates, and other consulting as a subscription service. In July 2020, Aras confirmed the introduction of a new framework, Digital Twin Core, which introduces functionality for generating and handling digital twins to the Aras low-code package.

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