Dassault Systèmes

Paris, France - September 30, 2002 - Dassault Systemes (Nasdaq: DASTY; Euronext Paris: #13065, DSY.PA) today announced the launch of a global CATIA Certification program to provide customers and users with a valuable index for measuring their knowledge of CATIA. The program targets CATIA user groups such as product designers and developers, Dassault Systemes business and service partners, and new professionals joining the 3D Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) market.

The program will provide a standard measure of CATIA knowledge and will enable program participants to assess their skills against market norms. The certification program will also offer valuable feedback on CATIA training programs by providing a quantitative before-and-after measurement of trainees’ acquired skills. The Certification program is available worldwide for immediate implementation in companies of all sizes and industries.

"By introducing a CATIA certification program, we illustrate our commitment and dedication to our 3D PLM solutions, customers, and users," said Jean-Yves Yung, vice president Services, Dassault Systemes. “The certification program will provide a valuable resource for customers, users, and business partners to measure and evaluate their knowledge and skills. In addition, industry analysts and experts agree that certifications are a highly sought-after mark of credibility for expertise in the Information Technology marketplace.”

VUE Testing Services, the electronic testing businesses of NCS Pearson, will administer the CATIA Certification program through a series of domain-oriented exams. Participants can access the exams at VUE™ Authorized Testing Centers, a worldwide network of more than 3000 testing centers in over 130 countries.

To schedule an exam or for more information on the CATIA Certification program, visit Dassault Systemes’ certification website at www.3dplm.com/certification.

EMEA

9, quai Marcel Dassault, BP 310, 92156 Suresnes Cedex, France, education@ds-fr.com

Americas

215, St-Jacques St. West, Suite 500, Montreal (Quebec) H2Y 1M6, Canada, education@ds-ca.com

Asia Pacific

Dassault Systemes is the premier global software developer for the CAD/CAM/CAE/PLM market, providing companies with e-business solutions to implement their digital enterprise, thus creating and simulating the entire product life cycle from initial concept to product in service. CATIA, ENOVIA and DELMIA Solutions support industry-specific business processes to help unleash creativity and innovation, reduce development cycle time, improve quality, competitiveness and shareholder value: CATIA supports the digital product definition and simulation, DELMIA provides solutions to define and simulate lean digital manufacturing processes and ENOVIA delivers enterprise solutions that manage a comprehensive, collaborative and distributed model of the digital product, processes and resources. The combined integration creates the Digital Product life cycle Pipeline, supporting reuse of corporate knowledge. SolidWorks and SmarTeam Corp., as Dassault Systemes companies, offer respectively 3D design-centric and collaborative PDM software solutions based on Windows and the Internet. Spatial, also part of the Dassault Systemes family, is a market-leading provider of world-class 3D software components and services (for 3D modeling, visualization, and interoperability) to meet the requirements of 3D in Internet-based e-commerce and B2B applications.

Information about Dassault Systemes is available at http://www.3ds.com