ANDOVER, MA, Mar 27, 2025 – Aras has announced Aras InnovatorEdge, a low-code API management framework embedded in the Aras Innovator platform. The new framework simplifies API creation and integration, reducing the need for coding and development expertise.
Aras InnovatorEdge allows organizations to securely share product data and improve business processes, helping to enhance quality, increase efficiency, and reduce time to implementation. Aras InnovatorEdge helps create and manage API services that provide access to PLM and digital thread data and workflows, enabling support for different use cases, including:
- Simplifies PLM and enterprise process integration: Streamlines integration between PLM and other enterprise business systems like CRM, ERP, manufacturing systems, and supply chain systems while also connecting with the digital engineering ecosystem, including mechanical CAD, electronic CAD, and software lifecycle management platforms.
- Enables the creation of secure, thread-connected apps: Simplifies the development of mobile-friendly microapps using Aras’s low-code development tools or any third-party application development framework.
- Enhances value chain collaboration: Facilitates secure data exchange with suppliers, service partners, design partners, and customers to simplify collaboration and accelerate time-to-market.
- Establishes secure, governed, bidirectional connections: Enables targeted, purpose-built data streams between operational data stores and enterprise data lakes to support Controlled and compliant data management across the enterprise.
- Integrates with powerful data science and AI services: Aras is collaborating with Microsoft to integrate Aras InnovatorEdge with Microsoft Fabric, Microsoft 365 Copilot, and Microsoft Cloud for manufacturing, enabling seamless connectivity for advanced analytics and AI-driven insights. According to Gartner, “To support AI initiatives, it’s essential to enhance API strategies to accommodate dynamic AI consumers with heightened security and gateway needs1.”
“Aras InnovatorEdge rethinks the product data and digital thread experience by providing secure, real-time access to PLM data across the enterprise,” said Roque Martin, CEO of Aras. “Built for scalability and flexibility, its low-code, configurable approach accelerates digital transformation, strengthens collaboration, and enhances decision-making.”
“Aras InnovatorEdge enhances how organizations integrate AI and analytics into their operations while maintaining secure, seamless data connectivity,” said Dayan Rodriguez, corporate vice president, manufacturing & mobility at Microsoft. “Integrating Aras InnovatorEdge with Microsoft Fabric enables customers to unlock deeper insights, optimize decision-making, and drive greater efficiency across the digital engineering landscape.”
[1] Gartner, How to adapt your API strategy to succeed in the AI Era, Shameen Pillai, Mark O’Neill, 24 February 2025 GARTNER is a registered trademark and service mark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and internationally and is used herein with permission. All rights reserved.
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About Aras
Aras Corp., founded in 2000 by Peter Schroer, provides product lifecycle management (PLM) and digital thread solutions. Headquartered in Andover, MA, with additional offices in Japan, Germany, France, the UK, and Italy, Aras offers the Aras Innovator platform—a low-code solution designed to enhance product development processes across various industries. Aras empowers organizations to manage complex product lifecycles by serving sectors such as aerospace and defense, automotive, high-tech electronics, industrial manufacturing, energy, life sciences, shipbuilding, and medical devices. The company’s technology enables the delivery of flexible solutions built on a digital thread backbone, connecting users across disciplines to critical product data and processes throughout the lifecycle and extended supply chain. As of 2021, Aras employs over 500 professionals and serves approximately 350 customers.