3DEXPERIENCE Platform Openness

IT environments vary due to unique processes as well as different development and maintenance histories. This creates challenges as organizations struggle to maintain interoperability with complex legacy systems, diverse technologies and evolving standards. 

The flexibility of the 3DEXPERIENCE platform enables seamless integration into diverse IT environments, empowering you to efficiently communicate with various IT systems and exchange data between PDM and/or ERP systems. 
 

In the context of extensibility, the 3DEXPERIENCE platform provides openness through Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) that allow clients to extend system functionality to implement required process adaptations and map knowledge and know-how in the IT system. 

3DEXPERIENCE platform APIs also ensure scalability and adaptability, as they allow organizations to quickly implement new features, automate workflows and respond to changing business needs or market demands. This modular approach reduces development time and ensures systems remain future-proof and interoperable as the IT landscape changes. 
 

"Standards" refers to norms, industry standards or vendor-specific standards. Efficient system development and maintenance relies on using standards across all aspects of openness, including interoperability, IT infrastructure and extensibility.

The 3DEXPERIENCE platform web services infrastructure is compliant with leading interface standards and supports multiple exchange standards, such as STEP, IGES, FMI, AUTOSAR and JT.

Dassault Systèmes is an active contributor to many organizations defining standards - we actively participate and lead the creation of standards for MBSE (e.g. UAF, UML, SysML, RAAML, etc.) with the Object Management Group. Dassault Systèmes is actively participating in INCOSE to support the MBSE adoption. 
 

Complementing the RESTful APIs, the 3DEXPERIENCE platform architecture incorporates an event-driven approach using a JMS message bus for asynchronous communication. This offering allows external systems to subscribe to messages, thereby facilitating loose coupling between systems. The JMS bus handles message queuing, ensuring messages are not lost even if a consumer is temporarily unavailable. Events on significant status changes of resources are broadcast as messages which can trigger actions in external systems without direct method calls. This architecture supports processing and scalability, where external systems can react to events independently, enhancing the overall system's responsiveness and fault tolerance. The combination of RESTful APIs for synchronous interactions and JMS for event-driven communication ensures the service can handle both request-response and publish-subscribe patterns effectively, catering to a wide array of integration scenarios.

Dassault Systèmes forges partnerships with pioneering companies including customers, partners and third-parties in diverse sectors to elevate technological advances, stimulate innovation and cultivate an ecosystem that propels progress and sustainable development. Our collaborations are meticulously chosen to align with our corporate mission to harmonize product, nature and life, ensuring that the benefits of digital transformation extend to all businesses and society. Through these strategic alliances, we seek to bridge the gap between virtual and real worlds through our 3DEXPERIENCE platform and the power of virtual twins. Together, we navigate the complexities of advanced technology integration, shaping a sustainable future through digital coherence and collaborative intelligence.