Dassault Systèmes’ 3DLive Software Recognized as a START-IT Top 50 Technology for 2008

20/11/2007

Online 3D Eases Global Business, Promotes User Collaboration and More Efficient Product Design and Development

PARIS, Nov. 20, 2007 – Dassault Systèmes (DS) (Nasdaq: DASTY; Euronext Paris: #13065, DSY.PA), a world leader in 3D and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, today announced that START-IT magazine has recognized DS’s 3DLive online collaborative intelligence software as one of its Top 50 Technologies for 2008. 3DLive is a lightweight online application that enables anyone in the product development chain to view design data and collaborate on demand.

“Based on its ability to help manufacturers address many of the industry’s key business opportunities including globalization and sourcing, we believe that Dassault Systemes’ 3DLive represents a significant technological advance. In particular we were impressed by the product’s focus on enabling more extensive collaboration between designers, engineers and the multitudes of other disciplines and people involved in the New Product Development and Introduction (NPDI) process without the need for large-scale new IT investments,” said START-IT editorial director Peggy Smedley. The START-IT Top 50 Technologies Award honors manufacturing products that help companies improve their business practices. The publication’s editors weigh a product’s “uniqueness and functionality in the marketplace” in making their decision.

3DLive features an intuitive “carousel” interface that uses 3D images of product designs for simple, easy navigation, eliminating time consuming searches through complex, unintuitive text menus in various databases and applications. This approach enables users to rapidly access product information from any source in the design chain. It lets design teams share information freely, while maintaining the unique information requirements and best practices they need to operate efficiently. 3DLive presents the information in context, showing each stakeholder how their work affects other stakeholders’ work. Design groups and individual users can form virtual teams to address impromptu concerns through 3DLive’s integrated tools, such as dynamic chat, 3D image sharing, co-navigation and annotation support.

“Understanding the needs of the enterprise user, we developed 3DLive to ensure that it could leverage existing collaboration infrastructures such as Microsoft’s Office Communicator Server and IBM’s Lotus Collaboration Suite. This approach enables stakeholders throughout the extended enterprise to collaborate easily and efficiently regardless of where they work or what software they have on their computers,” says Dominique Florack, senior executive vice president, Products - R&D, Dassault Systèmes. “We appreciate START-IT’s recognition and its understanding of PLM technology’s importance in the manufacturing industry.”

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A propos de Dassault Systèmes

Leader mondial des solutions 3D et de gestion du cycle de vie des produits (Product Lifecycle Management ou PLM), Dassault Systèmes apporte de la valeur ajoutée à 100 000 clients, répartis dans 80 pays. Pionnier du marché du logiciel en 3D depuis 1981, Dassault Systèmes développe et commercialise des logiciels d'application PLM et des services qui anticipent les processus industriels de demain et offrent une vision 3D de l'ensemble du cycle de vie d'un produit, de sa conception à sa maintenance. L’offre de Dassault Systèmes se compose de CATIA pour la conception virtuelle de produits, SolidWorks pour la conception mécanique en 3D, DELMIA pour la production virtuelle, SIMULIA pour la simulation et les tests virtuels, ENOVIA pour la gestion collaborative et globale du cycle de vie et 3DVIA pour des expériences 3D vécues en-ligne comme dans la vie réelle. Dassault Systèmes est coté sur les marchés Nasdaq (DASTY) et Euronext Paris (n°13065, DSY.PA). Pour plus d’informations: http://www.3ds.com/fr/http://www.3ds.com/fr/

CATIA, DELMIA, ENOVIA, SIMULIA, SolidWorks et 3D VIA sont des marques déposées de Dassault Systèmes ou de ses filiales aux USA et / ou dans d'autres pays.