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Aras Rightsizing PLM Software Deployments for Scalability
- 1. BEDIFFERENT ACE 2012 I NTERNATI O NAL
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- 2. ACE 2012
INTERNATIONAL
Right-sizing Aras for
Your Company
Rob McAveney
Director of Product Management
Aras www.aras.com
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- 3. How to Measure?
Users? vs.
Locations? vs.
Data? vs.
Processes? vs.
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- 4. User Count
Total number of users
50 or 50,000+ ?
Number of concurrent users
10 or 10,000+ ?
User types
# People that need to submit data?
# People that need to view/access data?
# People that need to participate in processes?
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- 5. Location Count
Physical location count
1 or 100+ ?
Network infrastructure
Bandwidth
Latency
Encryption requirements
Supplier and/or customer access
Suppliers? How many? 10 or 10,000+ ?
Customers? How many? 5 or 50,000+ ?
All of these options are possible with Aras and
the right configuration
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- 6. Amount of Data
Number of vaulted files
10k or 1M+ ?
File size
Megabytes or Terabytes or even Petabytes?
Database
Bills of Material
Process Plans
Change & Configuration Management
Compliance Data
CAD Integrations
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- 7. Process Complexity
Process complexity is not a function of user count
Big companies can have simple processes
Small companies can have complex processes
PLM Scope
BOMs, Document Management and Engineering Change
Outsourced Manufacturing & Quality Assurance
Program Project Management
Systems Engineering
Formulas & Recipes
Regulatory compliance
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- 8. Deployment Options
Single server for everything Aras
U s e r C o u n t
ERP
CRM
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- 9. Deployment Options
Distributed/replicated vaults geographically
close to users
U s e r C o u n t
ERP
CRM
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- 10. Deployment Options
Load balanced application servers
U s e r C o u n t
ERP
CRM
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- 11. Deployment Options
Hosted environment through firewalls
with encryption
U s e r C o u n t
ERP
CRM
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- 12. Deployment Options
Private cloud with shared/replicated
database
U s e r C o u n t
ERP
CRM
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- 13. Deployment Options
Public cloud with virtualized resources
and replicated vaults behind the firewall
like Aras Spectrum on Azure
U s e r C o u n t
ERP
CRM
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- 14. Scaling Down
Laptop for evaluation, demo,
development, etc.
Single small server for a
workgroup
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- 15. Scaling Up
A single server configuration
will work from
dozens of users to
hundreds of users
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- 16. Multiple Server Configurations
Move the vault service to
multiple different servers
Other services, like
file conversion, can
easily be
moved to
other servers
Vault replication
Good for many
distributed sites
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- 17. Vault Replication
Automatic replication of files across many vault
servers
Shared Vaults
Distributed Vaults
Replicated Vaults
• On Demand or Scheduled replication
• Vary rules by vault, file type, group, etc.
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- 18. Separate Database Server
Run the database
on it’s own server(s)
Bandwidth between
application and
database server(s)
is critical
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- 19. Multiple Application Servers
Multiple application servers
can connect to the same
database and vaults
Segregate users by
location or another
factor
Load balance
using underlying
IT infrastructure
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- 20. Achieving the Right Size
Make sure you factor in the number of users and
locations, amount of data and process complexity
Scaling down is simple – just install on a single
server
Many options for scaling up & out, including
splitting servers, replication, load balancing, etc.
Infinite scalability can be achieved using cloud
technologies such as Aras Spectrum on Azure
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- 21. ACE 2012
INTERNATIONAL
Right-sizing Aras for
Your Company
Rob McAveney
Director of Product Management
Aras www.aras.com
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