Innovation
For over 40 years, Dassault Systèmes has worked closely with customers and partners to spearhead groundbreaking advancements that revolutionize industries and improve lives.
Discover the many ways we support innovation, from facilitating global collaboration to reshaping educational programs to fostering innovative startups’ bold ideas through the 3DEXPERIENCE Lab.
Our Innovations Create a Positive Impact Everywhere
Since 1981, Dassault Systèmes, a science-based company, has provided solutions for sustainable innovation to a wide range of industries. While we started out helping drive the world’s greatest industrial transformations, we're now also applying our knowledge and know-how to transform the organic world.
100%
of all planes, including solar-powered, are designed with Dassault Systèmes software.
Over 50%
of drugs and medical devices are designed with Dassault Systèmes solutions.
100%
of EV manufacturers are innovating with our design and manufacturing solutions.
8,000+
active clinical trials are run with our MEDIDATA products.
We accelerate disruptive innovations that hold the promise to positively impact people and society. Our science-based virtual twin experiences leverage artificial intelligence and harness collective human intelligence, helping innovators everywhere take concrete actions to help change the world and inspire the metamorphosis of industry.
We are at the Forefront of Innovation
Dassault Systèmes ranks on Forbes magazine’s list of the world’s 100 most innovative companies.
Designing Impactful Innovation
Our 3DEXPERIENCE platform empowers innovators to enhance the real world through the virtual world – creating, designing and testing the new experiences needed to drive a more sustainable economy from ideation to market delivery and usage to retirement.
From Atom to City: We Have Impacted Innovation at Every Scale
Almost everything around us is enabled in some way by Dassault Systèmes.
For over 40 years, working closely with customers and partners, Dassault Systèmes has spearheaded many technology breakthroughs that have had a profound impact on society and on people’s lives. You can find us impacting innovation at every scale.
3D Design
Innovation ‘right the first time’: The dawn of three-dimensional surface design.
It all started in 1981 with the launch of our first software solution, CATIA, that brought three-dimensional surface design for objects and products to transform industry.
3D DIGITAL MOCK-UP
Innovation through collaboration: 3D Digital Mock-Up (DMU) for three-dimensional design of entire complex systems.
In 1989, we took our ambitions to new heights, collaborating with Boeing to create the first virtual twin of their Boeing 777. At this stage, we started representing the inside of complex systems.
3DPLM
Innovation at every stage of the value chain: 3D Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) across the development lifecycle.
Just before the turn of the millennium in 1999, we expanded our focus to end-to-end product lifecycle management entirely in 3D. This began the phase where we started representing time in our solutions, considering every stage from design to production to distribution to recycling.
3DEXPERIENCE platform
Innovation through experience: Creating value through product usage.
In 2012, we introduced the 3DEXPERIENCE platform to provide virtual twins to navigate, evaluate, and holistically experiment with and improve an idea in the virtual world to make it reality. Our customers needed to adapt to the experience economy, where experiences are more important than products themselves, so we brought the 3DEXPERIENCE platform to market to help our clients to create delightful experiences desired by consumers.
Virtual Twin Experience of Humans
Innovation in the organic world: Applying our experience transforming industry to revolutionize human experience.
Imagine being able to model, test and cure a human body as well as we do with a plane or a car. That's what we expanded our focus on in 2020, taking our decades of experience improving the inorganic world to expand our focus from things to life. The new era demands nothing less than the virtual twin experience of the human body itself.
3D UNIV+RSES
A groundbreaking shift towards generative innovation: Connecting science-based virtual twins to accelerate collaborative intelligence.
Drawing inspiration from the organic world and underpinned by deep scientific expertise, we envision by 2040 we’ll be in a Generative Economy – a knowledge-driven system of virtual assets where IP is the currency for progress. In 2025, we introduced our groundbreaking vision for how 3D UNIV+RSES and advanced AI-based services will revolutionize approaches for modeling and interacting with the world, empowering businesses to create differentiated, customer-focused experiences and reimagining their product and services portfolios with sustainability at the forefront.
Over 40 years of technological innovation in 2 minutes
We Help Our Customers Imagine the Future
Hear from our customers to learn what made Dassault Systèmes the ideal choice for their businesses, and why we are the right partner for yours.
3DEXPERIENCE Lab
Accelerating early-stage projects from startups with the goal of creating disruptive, groundbreaking projects that change the world.
An Open Innovation Laboratory
Transform society for the better, together
The mission of the 3DEXPERIENCE Lab is to shape a new framework for open innovation that merges collective intelligence with a collaborative approach to foster entrepreneurship while strengthening society's future of creation.
Do you have a great idea that could help transform the world?
Supporting innovation for people & businesses
3DEXPERIENCE Edu
3DEXPERIENCE Edu partners with industry and educational institutions to shape and support a workforce armed with the rights skills to drive business and societal transformation.
3DEXPERIENCE Executive Centers
Our global 3DEXPERIENCE Executive Center network offers personalized meetings to unleash innovative approaches to specific business challenges, through product demonstrations and hands-on experiential learning.
DESIGNStudio
Our DESIGNStudio drives innovation by making available the expertise of 3D innovators who have helped companies of all sizes bring their ideas to life through Experience Thinking.
Applying the power of 3D technology, our team of experts have the ideas and tools to create meaningful and sustainable experiences that provide clients a competitive advantage, whatever their industry.
La Fondation Dassault Systèmes
La Fondation Dassault Systèmes supports breakthrough projects by driving innovation in Education, Research and Cultural Heritage.
Its mission is to help schools, universities, research centers, museums and non profit organizations to push the limits of knowledge as well as to inspire young people with a passion for engineering, science and digital technology to create a better and more collaborative society.
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Our vision for sustainable innovation
Discover how Virtual Twin technologies can help you rethink your products, processes and even business models to realize radically new sustainable innovations.
Virtual Twin Experiences
Dassault Systèmes’ virtual twin experiences let you visualize, model and simulate the entire environment of an experience or product.
Partners
Our partners are critical to our long-term success. From extensive R&D team and investments to scientific and technical collaborations, our collaborations increase shared value.
Careers
Join us to open new possibilities through the power of virtual universes!