Arena QuickStart Overview

Overview

QuickStart is a comprehensive implementation service that helps you onboard with Arena quickly, whether you’re implementing PLM, QMS, or both. From planning to execution and expansion, we’ve got the plans, the tools, and the people every step of the way.

START USING ARENA QUICKLY

Arena’s QuickStart program is the proven shortest path to using Arena – accelerating your time to benefit. With QuickStart, you will be using Arena in production in just a few weeks, not months. Arena QuickStart combines a repeatable methodology and industry configurations with the extraordinary commitment of our team. QuickStart works because Arena is designed with your business in mind.

TAILORED SERVICES

Arena has built-in best practices to support your current goals and scale with you. Your solution consultant will work with you to get the most benefit from Arena’s capabilities quickly and with confidence.

EXPERIENCED SOLUTION ARCHITECTS

Arena’s Solution Delivery organization has implemented Arena PLM/QMS for over 1,400 companies throughout the last 20 years. In that time, we’ve developed a standardized implementation methodology – a framework designed to be tailored to meet your needs. We’ve also developed tools that will help manage and accelerate your go live process. Your primary contact during QuickStart will be one of our solution architects, who average 20+ years of experience and best practices implementing PLM/QMS solutions.

ONBOARDING STEPS

Before project kickoff, we will complete the following activities:

• Arena enables your workspaces
• Arena and you assign project resources
• You register for training

HIGH-LEVEL ACTIVITIES

Your solution architect and your team complete the following high-level activities together

• Kickoff project
• Develop project plan
• Configure data and process in Arena
• Gather, prepare, and import data into Arena
• Test data and processes in Arena
• Train end-users
• Go live on Arena
• Transition to Customer Success

SECRETS TO SUCCESS

After doing over 1,400 implementations, we’ve discovered some tips that reliably get you up and running sooner.

• Get the quick win
  ✓ Phase an implementation according to your priorities gets you live sooner
  ✓ Refer to your priorities identified in the “Research and Join” phase
• Continue momentum
  ✓ At least 1 meeting per week to advance:
  • System and process configuration
  • Data prep
  • Go Live prep
• Work independently
  ✓ You have tasks to work through independently between meetings with your Solution Architect

ARENA SOLUTIONS IS YOUR TRUSTED PARTNER

Arena offers the most comprehensive product development platform to help you innovate rapidly. We improve, accelerate, and track your product processes across multiple teams, locations, and partners. We help your teams collaborate through the entire product lifecycle, stay on budget, and respond effectively to customer demands. All of this helps you bring better products to market, faster and easier, so you can change the world. To find out how you can join some of the most innovative customers in the world, contact [email protected].