Arena PLM and QMS vs. PTC Windchill

Arena PLM and QMS

PTC Windchill

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Arena PLM and QMS	Score8.9 out of 10	N/A	Arena by PTC is a cloud-based PLM and QMS platform. Arena helps product companies that rely on distributed teams and global supply chains to develop products, ensure regulatory compliance, and respond to customer demands.	N/A
PTC Windchill	Score8.6 out of 10	N/A	PTC offers Windchill, the company's Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) platform that includes BOM (a digital bill of materials) for cost and product quality control via parts-centric source of truth, dynamic and updated product change and configuration management to ensure up-to-date product information, industry standards and requirements validation and control, and role-based data access among other features.	N/A

Pricing

Arena PLM and QMS

PTC Windchill

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Pricing Offerings
Arena PLM and QMS	PTC Windchill
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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No setup fee

Arena's cloud-based PLM and QMS solutions include role-based subscriptions to meet diverse team needs. Their fixed-fee QuickStart™ implementations supports rapid deployment.

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Key User Insights
	Arena PLM and QMS	PTC Windchill
Considered Both Products	Arena by PTC Verified User Chose Arena PLM and QMS Arena was more intuitive and had a better interface and user experience than PTC Windchill, though Windchill was great as it had good CAD integration and the CAD PLM was the document PLM, everything was in one place. Windchill also had good customization workflow that … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Arena PLM and QMS At my first job, we used PTC Windchill and I just remember it being a pain to manage and work with. I don't remember the support being great and the user interface was not user-friendly at all. It also seemed really outdated and there seemed to be too much duplicate information. Incentivized Helpful? Nakul Gawatre Mechanical Engineer in Engineering at DELPHINUS MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES (Medical Device, 11-50 employees) Chose Arena PLM and QMS Arena is more convenient than PTC Windchill. Arena is easier to use with SOLIDWORKS than PTC Windchill. Arena is easier to use when working with assemblies and subassemblies than PTC Windchill. Arena is easier to use when creating engineering change requests, handling reviews … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Arena PLM and QMS Arena had an easier BOM structure setup Incentivized Helpful? CESAR LARA Process engineer in Manufacturing at Aligntech (Medical Device, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Arena PLM and QMS Arena PLM and QMS has a lot of options to work with in hand with the current other systems use at our company. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Arena PLM and QMS Arena is only a PLM solution, so if you need PDM + PLM, look elsewhere. Or use a separate PDM to your PLM system. Large companies with complex products may find this an issue, but if you can streamline your PLM use Arena could be a good fit. Once you get past that decision, … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Arena PLM and QMS Arena has all the functionality the company needs (all the PLM systems reviewed had the same basic functionality) and was a better price. It also offers great support after implementation at no additional cost. It was also great to work directly with Arena, rather than … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Arena PLM and QMS For the price and implementation effort Arena wins. From what I remember windchill was "easier" to understand and see the associated files and parts. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Arena PLM and QMS Having worked previously with Windchill, I found Arena to be far more intuitive and easy to use, needing much less customization. Though the use of Windchill was at a much larger company, Arena was clear and flexible and able to meet our needs with only a fraction of the time … Incentivized Helpful? Matthew Lovett Lead Engineer / Sustaining Engineering Manager in Engineering at Spectrum Brands, Inc (Consumer Goods, 10,001+ employees) Chose Arena PLM and QMS The arena user interface is much better, although I think Windchill may be a little better at change management or at least visualizing it. Also, Windchill can create PDFs of our mechanical drawings on their release so it is critical for our ME team. Incentivized Helpful? Shri Kota Project Manager in Product Management at Gener8 LLC (Medical Device, 201-500 employees) Chose Arena PLM and QMS Arena is very easy to use, well organized, budget friendly, Keep improvising, Always get help promptly. Takes less time to get trained, user friendly, track everything in place by new homepage option. Incentivized Helpful?	PTC No answer on this topic
	Would buy again
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	Delivers good value for the price
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	Happy with the feature set
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	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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	Implementation went as expected
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User Ratings
	Arena PLM and QMS	PTC Windchill
Likelihood to Recommend	9.2 (214 ratings)	9.0 (5 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.0 (5 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Usability	7.1 (16 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Availability	9.0 (3 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Performance	9.1 (3 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	9.1 (16 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Online Training	8.2 (2 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	8.3 (2 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Configurability	8.7 (2 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Product Scalability	9.1 (3 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	8.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	9.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

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