Aras Corp. has made available its Aras Innovator Suite for product lifecycle management (PLM) on Microsoft SQL Server 2014.

Dassault Systèmes B.V., a vendor of software for product design and lifecycle management, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Quintiq, the provider of operations planning and optimization software.

Arena Solutions, a provider of cloud-based applications for product lifecycle management, has developed a new tool for discrete engineering and manufacturing.

Product lifecycle management (PLM) and product design have been applications that have been slow to move to the cloud, for a number of reasons. But as companies increasingly switch on to the flexibility, scalability and affordability that cloud platforms offer, so adoption has increased.

Aras, a vendor of product lifecycle management (PLM) software, has made generally available Aras Innovator 10. The newest release offers improved PLM platform scalability and an HTML5 Web browser interface.