Aras is a high growth, global software company delivering enterprise Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions to address the rapidly growing complexity in large scale corporate environments.Founded in 2000, Aras is led by a combination of executives & technologists from across the software industry including SAP, SIEMENS, PTC, Oracle, Dassault Systèmes and others.We have combined a series of innovations to transform the way global companies buy, deploy and use enterprise software to automate PLM processes. By rethinking the way PLM is designed we have taken a fundamentally different approach to both the technology and the business model.We recognize that every company is unique and constantly changing to grow, improve and compete. To enable this continuous innovation we focus on delivering a scalable, full-featured PLM suite with industry best practices that is significantly easier to adapt to changing business practices rather than forcing Customers to compromise to fit the software.

Oracle acquired Agile Software - see below.

15-MAY-2007 Oracle announced today that it has agreed to acquire Agile Software Corporation (Nasdaq: AGIL), a leading provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) software solutions, through a cash merger for $8.10 per share, or approximately $495 million. Agile's PLM solutions help engineers, manufacturing and supply chain professionals and business executives drive the product innovation and introduction process, share product specifications and configurations and collaborate effectively across the supply chain in a variety of industries, including high-tech, life sciences, industrial manufacturing and consumer packaged goods. Agile's solutions help customers make better product portfolio decisions, accelerate new product introduction, improve manufacturing quality and manage regulatory compliance. Customers of Agile include Acer, Flextronics International, GE Medical Systems, Harris, Heinz, Johnson & Johnson, Lockheed Martin, McDonald's, Micron, QUALCOMM, Shell and ZF.