Excel might be cheap, but it couldn’t sustain our growing business forever, so we made the investment to implement Arena PLM from the start.

Arena provides everything we need in one place – product lifecycle control, quality system control, collaboration, and more. We appreciate Arena’s focus on our product development and quality system needs.

There was no up-front cost, and our monthly recurring ROI is approximately 900%, thanks to the amount of time Sidekick saves us. We can do more important work now and are ready for our next growth stage.

Arena is the solution we can grow with.

Arena makes the whole product process much faster and efficient. Simply put, everyone here at Pulse loves Arena.

I didn’t need to hire a team to manage the infrastructure associated with an onpremise siloed system anymore. I now only needed one person to help me which kept my overhead costs low.

Arena plays a key role in getting us to our product goals.

Early after go-live with Arena, our productivity has already improved—thanks to the clear, transparent product data in Arena; ease of use; and quick-change processes.

I have been around the block and had my share of all kinds of implementations with pretty much any vendor that you can think of. I would have to say that Arena is absolutely at the top of the list in terms of working with a client and making sure that whatever is needed to make the implementation a success, is done.

A big advantage managing quality in Arena is the ability to link quality records to the part record and bill of materials (BOM). It’s not helpful having disconnected software systems for quality and product development where impacted teams don’t have cross-functional visibility. We contrasted both PLM and standalone QMS software solutions and costs. There was a cost savings for PLM, but the connected quality processes and links to the product BOM led us to select Arena, even before considering total cost. Since our initial implementation, we’ve improved complaint investigation duration and timeliness of CAPA management through process improvements supported by Arena’s product-centric quality management system approach.