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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