Integration

Arena tracks the items and BOMs you select, and a monitoring feature indicates when they change. You can manage your own reconciliation process, or select one of our automated integration solutions for synchronization with leading CAD, EDA, and ERP systems. Arena also offers comprehensive custom integration services to assist with project management, data mapping, or testing to support your own unique requirements.

Managed or automated, it’s your choice

Arena puts you in control: you can perform your own reconciliation, or choose an automated solution. Whatever solution you choose, Arena supports you every step of the way with monitoring and configuration assistance. You get peace of mind from knowing which changes in Arena have been propagated to your enterprise applications—with no guesswork, no headaches, and no astronomical price tag.

Managed integrations

If you choose to manage your reconciliation yourself, we’ll tell you what’s changed and help you track your progress. With the built-in integration management capability of Arena, you’ll be able to manage the data synchronization of multiple enterprise systems, each with its own uniquely defined administrator …download datasheet

The managed integration capability will allow you to:

• Establish an integration for each destination enterprise application.
• Track multiple items for each integration.
• Assign unique Integration Administrators to each integration.
• Review the changed data in a single view.
• Easily reconcile each update.

Automated integrations

We’ve also built a collection of powerful integration solutions that synchronize Arena data with leading enterprise software packages. These automated solutions connect directly with your enterprise applications to ensure that Arena data is properly integrated. You get accurate data transfers built on a sophisticated platform configured for you by our expert integration team.

EDA Integration Solutions

Go to the Arena EDA Adapter page for more details…

• Arena EDA Adapter for Altium Designer

  Arena EDA Adapter for Altium Designer brings Arena’s centralized product data to your engineer’s schematic design tool, so engineers can make better design decisions, maximize reuse of preferred company parts, accelerate design completion, and easily generate manufacturing-ready bills of materials (BOMs). Download the datasheet

• Arena EDA Adapter for DxDatabook^®

  This datasheet provides an explanation of the Arena integration with DxDataBook for DxDesigner, allowing design engineers to make critical design decisions, maximize part reuse, accelerate design, and produce manufacturing-ready Bills of Materials (BOMs). Download the datasheet

• Arena EDA Adapter for OrCAD^® Capture CIS^®

  The Arena OrCAD Capture CIS Integration enables design engineers to quickly and accurately make critical design decisions, maximize reuse of preferred company parts, accelerate design completion, and produce manufacturing-ready Bills of Materials (BOMs). Download the datasheet

MCAD/PDM Integration Solutions

• Arena-SolidWorks Integration

  The Arena-SolidWorks Integration eliminates manual, time consuming and error-prone data entry—and lets your engineers be engineers. Go to the Arena-SolidWorks Integration page

ERP Integration Solutions

• Arena-NetSuite Integration

  The Arena-NetSuite Integration automates the process of transferring current product data from Arena to NetSuite, avoiding manual entry errors and ensuring that NetSuite is always up to date. Go to the Arena-NetSuite Integration page

• Arena-ERP Integration

  This datasheet provides a closer look at integrating Arena with a manufacturer’s ERP or MRP system utilizing Arena API Output Adapter (formerly ERP Exchange). Download the datasheet

• Arena-Expandable ERP Integration

  Integrating Arena with Expandable ERP ensures accurate propagation of approved product changes to all departments that use Expandable, including materials planning and manufacturing. Download the datasheet

• Arena-INFOR® ERP LN™ ERP Integration

  This datasheet explains how Arena integrates with the Infor ERP LN ERP systems and reviews the capabilities and benefits of this turnkey solution. Download the datasheet

• Arena-Microsoft Dynamics® ERP Integration

  Arena-Microsoft Dynamics ERP Integration reconciles the changes you make to your product data in Arena with three of the Microsoft Dynamics ERP systems: AX, GP and NAV — accurately, securely, and on your schedule. Download the datasheet

• Arena-Oracle® Manufacturing Integration

  Arena-Oracle ERP Integration reconciles the changes you make to your product data in Arena with Oracle ERP—accurately, securely, and on your schedule. Download the datasheet

• Arena-QAD MFG/PRO™ Integration

  This datasheet explains how Arena integrates with the QAD MFG/PRO ERP system and reviews the capabilities and benefits of this turnkey solution. Download the datasheet

• Arena-SAGE MAS90™ / MAS200™ Integration

  This datasheet explains how Arena integrates with the SAGE MAS90/MAS200 ERP systems and reviews the capabilities and benefits of this turnkey solution. Download the datasheet

Don’t see the integration you’re looking for?

Just contact us, we have a network of partners that can build an adapter specific to your needs, and we’re continually adding to our supported integrations—all part of our continuous innovation.

 

Instant visibility into your integration progress

Whether you choose managed or automated integration, the Integration Monitoring & Management tool tracks the items you specify and indicates when the data has been changed in Arena. You can track changes to inventory disposition notes, specifications (including custom attributes), BOMs, and sourcing information. You get a clear list of accumulating changes, updated on the fly, so you know instantly what data is waiting to be reconciled.

 

Status at a glance

Arena gives you an extra level of visibility into the status of your integration system: the Integration Monitoring & Management tool—right on your Arena Dashboard. This module uses a straightforward, color-coded system to show you whether your automated synchronization is completely up to date, has queued changes to be reconciled, needs your attention, or has been disabled. From your Dashboard, you can access the list of changed data that has been queued, and if you need to, you can access the Integration Maintenance Tool for more in-depth information.

 

Integration Services make it easy

Arena’s team of experts and partners has assisted with hundreds of integration projects. If you need assistance with integration tasks like project management, data mapping, or testing, our Integration Services team is ready to help …learn more

 

Expandable is a registered trademark of Expandable Software, Inc. Great Plains is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation. MFG/PRO is a registered trademark of QAD. PDMWorks is a registered trademark of SolidWorks Corporation. Pro/INTRALINK is a registered trademark of Parametric Technology Corporation. OrCAD is a registered trademark of Cadence Design Systems, Inc. DxDataBook is a trademark of Mentor Graphics Corporation.