Dassault Systèmes and Sogeti Group Sign Industry Solution Alliance

02/07/2008

To accelerate and secure PLM deployments to industries’ specific practices

Suresnes, France, July 2, 2008- Dassault Systèmes (DS) (Nasdaq: DASTY; Euronext Paris: #13065, DSY.PA), a world leader in 3D and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, and Sogeti Group, a member of the Capgemini Group, today announced that they have signed an industry solution alliance.  By combining Dassault Systèmes’ products and solutions with Sogeti’s expertise and skills in the high-technology consulting area, the companies will create industry-focused, best-practices offers to accelerate and secure PLM 2.0 deployments. 

“As more companies are adopting PLM as a core system, the need for customized PLM solutions and services is increasing. We are proud to team with Dassault Systèmes, a visionary company that has been in this business for over 25 years and is now a world leader in PLM activities and products,” says Luc-François Salvador, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Sogeti Group.
 
“Sogeti is recognized as a leader in its field and has impressive knowledge and service offerings with high-level consulting engineering skills and expertise in many sectors.  We welcome Sogeti as partner in our industry solution alliance program,” says Bruno Latchague, EVP, PLM Business Transformation, Dassault Systèmes. 

As part of the first offering, Dassault Systèmes and Sogeti have already begun targeting aerospace industry best practices.  Today, aerospace OEMs and Tier 1 partners are facing difficulties quickly accomplishing master model creation and simulation within a fully associative process.  This slows the design change process and often results in more human errors. The solution, called “Aircraft Structural Optimization”, will address these issues as they occur during aircraft conception, and will support a high level of parametric modifications, as well as quick propagation to both geometry and analysis. 

Über Industry Solution Partner Program

Through strategic alliances with leading IT systems integrators, service providers and consulting firms, Dassault Systèmes’ Industry Solution partnerships provide industry-focused PLM solutions and services for critical customer business processes. This results in an industry-focused PLM 2.0 practices portfolio, combining partner engineering skills and methodologies to accelerate and secure PLM deployment.

Über Sogeti Group

Sogeti Group (member of the Capgemini Group), leader in IT services and R&D outsourcing, offers a range of local professional services in High Tech Consulting and Information Technology for large companies through these three complementary areas:
- High Tech or High Tech Consulting
Research & Development with the maintenance in operational conditions:Outsourcing Research and Development and Innovation Advice.
Scientific and technical research and developments, mechanical design, development of complex systems.
Control and industrial data processing.
- Application Services or systems integration
From the conception to the maintenance of the information system: consulting, architecture, contracting owner’s assistance, development, integration, testing and maintenance of application assets.
- Infrastructure Services or integration management and systems administration
Consulting in security and performance of the infrastructures of services IT and Telecom.
Supply of all the services indispensable to the rationalization, to the optimization and to the management of the IT structures. Integration of the architectures and of the exploitation, guaranteeing an optimal efficiency of the systems and networks.

In total, Sogeti Group has more than 18,000 professionals in 14 countries with 10,000 in France.

Über Dassault Systèmes

Als Weltmarktführer von 3D- und Product-Lifecycle-Management-Lösungen (PLM) betreut Dassault Systèmes mehr als 90.000 Kunden in 80 Ländern. Seit 1981 agiert Dassault Systèmes als Vorreiter im 3D Softwaremarkt und entwickelt PLM-Anwendungen und Services, die standortübergreifend Produktentwicklungsprozesse unterstützen. PLM-Lösungen von Dassault Systèmes bieten die dreidimensionale Betrachtung des gesamten Produktlebenszyklus, der vom ersten Konzept bis zur Wartung des fertigen Produkts reicht. Das Portfolio von Dassault Systèmes besteht aus CATIA für die virtuelle Produktentwicklung – SolidWorks als 3D-CAD-Lösung – DELMIA für die virtuelle Produktion – SIMULIA für virtuelle Erprobung und ENOVIA für weltweites Collaborative Lifecycle Management, einschließlich ENOVIA VPLM, ENOVIA, MatrixOne und ENOVIA SmarTeam. Dassault Systèmes ist börsennotiert an der Nasdaq (DASTY) und Euronext Paris: (#13065; DSY.PA). Weitere Informationen finden Sie unter http://www.3ds.com   

CATIA, DELMIA, ENOVIA, SIMULIA und SolidWorks sind eingetragene Warenzeichen von Dassault Systèmes oder Tochterfirmen in den USA und/oder anderen Ländern.