Introduction

This user guide provides detailed information for contributors utilizing the Aras DevOps service to manage and customize their locally deployed Aras Innovator and application instances.

The scope of this user guide provides instructions to define, manage, customize, and validate locally deployed customizations, as well as outline the following:

• Contributor Process
• Branding
• Baselines
• Pipelines
• Transformations
• Packaging
• Change Management and Implementation
• Appendices which provide tool information and instructions

This user guide provides good practices to ensure proper configuration management of a solution for business-critical operations.

Contributors’ experience with these processes and procedures will determine what tools they already use and prefer. The tools mentioned in this user guide are suggestions for consistency and practical embodiment of the concepts, not endorsements or mandates.

This document is intended for contributors responsible for following its instructions (customizers, PLM developers, and stakeholders involved in software development and project management).

Contributors working on implementing solutions using the Aras Innovator platform are responsible for adhering to the information and steps outlined in this user guide.