Dassault Systèmes Launches Out-of-the-Box, Scalable Multi-CAD Solution for SMBs

10/19/2006

ENOVIA SmarTeam Express packages: affordable, easy to install, with rapid ROI in just days

Kfar Saba, Israel, October 19, 2006 ─ Dassault Systèmes (DS) (Nasdaq: DASTY; Euronext Paris: #13065, DSY.PA), a world leader in 3D and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, today announced the launch of SmarTeam Design Express (SDE) for Multi-CAD, an out of the box solution that helps small to medium sized businesses (SMBs) get started optimizing their use of product knowledge. SDE lets manufacturers fully implement an optimized collaborative product data management scenario in just days.

“Based on years of experience delivering solutions to the SMB market, we have come to understand their distinct PLM needs,” said Alex Zeltcer, General Manager, ENOVIA SmarTeam. “SDE is affordable, easy to install, involves little impact on hardware, and no services up front. We believe it is a unique enabler for bringing mid-sized organizations into the growing community that is gaining tangible business benefits through PLM.” SmarTeam Design Express for Multi-CAD is a preconfigured solution designed to help SMBs benefit from PLM by beginning with basic product data management. Highly intuitive, with streamlined functionality accessed from within the designer’s everyday CAD environment, SDE eases design teams into an optimized way of working.

SmarTeam Design Express for Multi-CAD offers SMBs a bottom-up approach to meeting design department needs – and with minimal disruption to day-to-day operations. Its optimized scenario seamlessly integrates design data and offers the first level of PLM functionality.  This enables designers to securely access, manage, and reuse the most accurate, up-to-date product information, gaining efficiency, avoiding errors and reducing risk.

While enabling design teams to improve productivity today, SDE goes a significant step further. It provides a proven, documented methodology for ensuring PLM solution expansion of a fuller scope on the same platform, such as:

• Improving design methodology based on company-specific needs
• Automating product data and business processes, such as Bill of Materials management and change management, across the organization and sites
• Bridging to manufacturing and other enterprise applications
• Linking design management to OEM customers or suppliers
• Tailored solutions for SolidWorks, Autodesk Inventor, Solid Edge and Pro/ENGINEER

SDE is a first step towards an evolving PLM solution that can be built modularly, according to a company’s capabilities and needs.

Industry analysts report that SMBs are increasingly seeing PLM as a means for improving competitive advantage by enabling a more rapid response to market trends and customer requirements. According to Jim Brown, Aberdeen Group, gaining control over product data -- including revision control, security management, search capabilities and maintaining ‘one version of the truth’ -- is “an essential foundation for a PLM infrastructure.” (The PLM for Small to Medium-Size Manufacturers Benchmark Report Enabling Profitable Growth for SMEs, March 2006)

 

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About Dassault Systèmes

As a world leader in 3D and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, the Dassault Systèmes group brings value to more than 90,000 customers in 80 countries. A pioneer in the 3D software market since 1981, Dassault Systèmes develops and markets PLM application software and services that support industrial processes and provide a 3D vision of the entire lifecycle of products from conception to maintenance. The Dassault Systèmes portfolio consists of CATIA for designing the virtual product - SolidWorks for 3D mechanical design - DELMIA for virtual production - SIMULIA for virtual testing and ENOVIA for global collaborative lifecycle management, including ENOVIA VPLM, ENOVIA MatrixOne and ENOVIA SmarTeam. Dassault Systèmes is listed on the Nasdaq (DASTY) and Euronext Paris (#13065, DSY.PA) stock exchanges. For more information, visit : http://www.3ds.com

 

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About Enovia SmarTeam

ENOVIA SmarTeam is Dassault Systèmes' portfolio offering for collaborative product data management, providing full PLM to small and medium-sized manufacturers, and engineering solutions to large enterprises. Delivering out-of-the-box, Microsoft® platform-based, scalable solutions, ENOVIA SmarTeam flexibly and openly enables organizations to integrate data, processes and systems in a robust, multi-CAD environment.