FOSTER CITY, CA -- Arena Solutions, a provider of product lifecycle management software, and components distributor Avnet Electronics Marketing have signed a joint sales and marketing deal that covers both firm's tools and services.

Arena and Avnet will provide a complete, integrated on-demand PLM and component line that includes the latter's extensive component database -- said to number more than 19 million parts.

Avnet will make available purchasing data, and parametric and analytical data, along with documentation from IHS. The combined content database consists of rich data for over 19 million unique electronic components. and includes RoHS and environmental regulation information, product change notifications and part specification data.

Avnet content now can be imported directly into the Arena PLM tool.

Ed.: An earlier version of this story reported that IHS Parts Management would also be involved as a reseller. While Avnet Electronics and IHS have a partnership under which Avnet resell's IHS's content, Arena does not have a reseller agreement with IHS.