Arena Connections Platform

Expand Arena’s Value to Your Enterprise

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Overview

Connect Arena to your apps, tools, and enterprise solutions. This is the fastest and most reliable way to operate your business.

Why Connect?

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The impact on our supply chain’s efficiency and our bottom line has been profound. It’s clear that this integration was not just an operational decision but a strategic move that has set us apart in the industry.”

—Terry Schneider, Vice President of Supply Chain Management, Digi International

Creating High-Tech Products Is Hard

Bringing your high-quality products to market today isn’t easy. Product processes throughout your product’s lifecycle involve multiple teams, systems, locations, partners, and suppliers. These dispersed groups must make rapid decisions based on a changing design to meet customer demand. You want to deliver better products faster and without surprises. And you want to innovate to stay ahead of the competition.

Benefits

Supports Supply Chain

Ensure partners and internal teams have the latest product designs in their systems to enable informed decisions.

Versatile

Adapt code and events with advanced filtering and triggers. IT resources can develop custom data-sharing solutions.

Capable

Simplify integration creation and testing with clear API messages. Ensure data integrity and traceability through strict validation and transaction logging.

Scalable

Enhance product realization by adding new integrations and functionalities.

Flexible

Configure the events engine and machine user access based on advanced filtering and triggers to meet integration needs.

The Data Battle Is Real

You have lots of data. The challenge is getting the correct information to people when they need it. And this challenge happens many times—product processes span across teams and systems, generating lots of data. Solving for this challenge will empower your teams to move fast and make better decisions.

The Future Requires Flexibility

Technologies you use to design and deliver products are changing, from generative design systems to smart manufacturing floors to machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities applied to the mundane as well as to the innovative work of your teams. You need flexibility to expand digital data flows and connections from team and task level to enterprise, easily.

A Next-Generation Platform

Connect your systems easily and quickly with our Connections Platform. The result is processes that run smoothly based on trusted information. And the platform provides a digital thread of product information throughout your product’s lifecycle.

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Arena Integration Engine

The Arena integration engine has three components: import engine, event engine, and output engine. This system supports both your complex and simple connectivity needs.

 

KEY BENEFITS

WHAT THE INTEGRATION ENGINE DOES

Import Engine

  • Shortens time to value by supporting the initial implementation

  • Normalizes product, component, and process information to improve merger and acquisition (M&A) results

  • Loads product information into Arena including large data sets

Event Engine

  • Eliminates missed steps and speeds up processes by connecting with CAD, ERP, CRM, and other enterprise solutions based on events in Arena

  • Captures Arena activity for notification to support integrations

  • Includes webhooks, advanced filtering, and other trigger capabilities without requiring code

Export Engine

  • Improves decision-making

  • Provides near real-time, trusted product and quality information to data warehouses for BI and AI

  • Obtains data from Arena, including large data sets or delta data sets

KEY BENEFITS

Import Engine

  • Shortens time to value by supporting the initial implementation

  • Normalizes product, component, and process information to improve merger and acquisition (M&A) results

  • The integration loads product information into Arena including large data sets

Event Engine

  • Eliminates missed steps and speeds up processes by connecting with CAD, ERP, CRM, and other enterprise solutions based on events in Arena

  • The Integration captures Arena activity for notification to support integrations

  • The Integration includes webhooks, advanced filtering, and other trigger capabilities without requiring code

Export Engine

  • Improves decision-making

  • The Integration provides near real-time, trusted product and quality information to data warehouses for BI and AI

  • The Integration obtains data from Arena, including large data sets or delta data sets

API

Use the Arena REST API to create integrations that replace manual processes and data entry. Functionality includes searching, reading, updating, creating, adding approvers, and deleting information in Arena. These functions work with items, BOMs, changes, quality processes, employee and machine users, training, tickets, and suppliers.

 

KEY BENEFITS

WHAT ARENA API DOES

Reduces time and eliminates errors when importing information from design systems

  • Automatically imports new items, drawings, and BOMs from design systems

  • Maintains data integrity between Arena and other systems by validating every import

Increases product realization success

  • Exports the latest, accurate information from Arena to downstream ERP and manufacturing execution MES systems

Supports integration development and expansion

  • Simplifies developing and deploying cloud-to-cloud application integration with Arena API documentation, including sample code

  • Streamlines integration with on-premises applications

  • Provides specific, clear, and descriptive success and error messages to simplify coding and debugging

  • Logs all transactions for traceability

Secures your intellectual property (IP)

  • Grants the same privileges to a user logging into the API service as a user who logs into Arena through the UI

KEY BENEFITS

Reduces time and eliminates errors when importing information from design systems

  • Automatically imports new items, drawings, and BOMs from design systems

  • Maintains data integrity between Arena and other systems by validating every import

Increases product realization success

  • Exports the latest, accurate information from Arena to downstream ERP and manufacturing execution MES systems

Supports integration development and expansion

  • Simplifies developing and deploying cloud-to-cloud application integration with Arena API documentation, including sample code

  • Streamlines integration with on-premises applications

  • Provides specific, clear, and descriptive success and error messages to simplify coding and debugging

  • Logs all transactions for traceability

Secures your intellectual property (IP)

  • Grants the same privileges to a user logging into the API service as a user who logs into Arena through the UI

Machine Users

A machine user simplifies provisioning and managing integrations. It is a powerful, easy-to-configure, reliable license for your Arena system integrations. It can be easily and quickly provisioned and configured for your integrations.

 

KEY BENEFITS

WHAT ARENA MACHINE USER LICENSE DOES

Easy to configure and manage

  • License separately from employee users and use one per integration

  • Tie license name to function, not person

  • Exempt from password expiration

Improves security

  • Use access policies for granular access/permission control

  • Account administrators configure authentication via a secure web token or a username and password, even for cloud SSO users

  • The Arena administrator can change the machine user password

Handles long-running integration sessions

  • Configure machine user sessions to handle long-running integration session conflicts

  • Prevent unintentional termination or interference of long-running integration sessions

KEY BENEFITS

Easy to configure and manage

  • License separately from employee users and use one per integration

  • Tie license name to function, not person

  • Exempt from password expiration

Improves security

  • Use access policies for granular access/permission control

  • Account administrators configure authentication via a secure web token or a username and password, even for cloud SSO users

  • The Arena administrator can change the machine user password

Handles long-running integration sessions

  • Configure machine user sessions to handle long-running integration session conflicts

  • Prevent unintentional termination or interference of long-running integration sessions

SSO Support

Single sign-on (SSO) is an authentication process that allows users to access multiple applications using their corporate login credentials.

 

KEY BENEFITS

WHAT SSO DOES

Increased productivity

  • Simplifies user access to multiple applications

Improves security

  • Reduces the risk of phishing and password-related attacks

  • Allows for multifactor authentication (MFA) implementation

Reduced IT costs

  • Provides a single dashboard for IT teams to manage user access, simplifying onboard and offboard employees

  • Reduces password reset requests

KEY BENEFITS

Increased productivity

  • Simplifies user access to multiple applications

Improves security

  • Reduces the risk of phishing and password-related attacks

  • Allows for multifactor authentication (MFA) implementation

Reduced IT costs

  • Provides a single dashboard for IT teams to manage user access, simplifying onboard and offboard employees

  • Reduces password reset requests

Arena Marketplace

You can build integrations that connect Arena to your tech stack or visit our Marketplace to explore our ecosystem of prebuilt apps, no-code integrations, bespoke solutions, and partners. You can search by category or system name.

PTC-Arena GitHub

The PTC-Arena GitHub is an open organization with multiple public repositories for people who develop using the Arena API or integrate to the Arena platform using integration methods Arena provides, including the low-code integration engine, API-based tools, and Data Extract. As we build out the space, the repositories will expand to provide documentation, examples, and guides related to these various integration methods.

Get Started

Contact [email protected] to connect your product realization solutions and bring innovation to life.

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