What Is Dassault Systèmes?
Dassault Systèmes helps improve real life with virtual worlds.
Through our science-based solutions, we bring virtual twin experiences to everyone - including you! We’re proud to be a sustainable company that helps people and businesses transform value creation into human progress to shape the generative economy.
From a Startup to a Global Company
Dassault Systèmes began in 1981 with 20 engineers developing CATIA for the aerospace industry. Today, the company employs more than 25,000 people worldwide and provides science-based technologies that help organizations improve products, processes and human experiences.
As a leader in industrial AI and virtual twin technology, Dassault Systèmes combines scientific knowledge, software and data to support innovation across the physical, biological and material worlds. Its portfolio of 12 brands includes applications for 3D modeling, simulation, collaboration, information intelligence, cloud infrastructure and cyber governance. These solutions help Manufacturing Industries, Cities & Infrastructure and Life Sciences & Healthcare address challenges such as sustainable logistics, product durability and waste reduction.
Since 2020, Dassault Systèmes has also expanded its life sciences and healthcare capabilities through virtual twins of the human body, supporting better medical decisions and patient experiences.
Virtual Worlds for Real Life
The virtual world can help us improve the real one. In the virtual world, we can simulate and evaluate the impact of our actions before making them real. This offers innovators the flexibility to explore their ideas freely while keeping people and the environment top of mind from the very start.
All about us at a glance
Here’s our pitch to you: If you’ve got an idea for absolutely anything, from a prosthetic leg to your dream motorbike to a way to make your city more sustainable, you can work with Dassault Systèmes solutions to design it, model it, simulate it, test it, manufacture it and even market it. Our solutions can help you bring your vision to life!
Look around you… We’re everywhere!
From life sciences and healthcare, to cities and infrastructure, to manufacturing and beyond, we’re part of every second of your life - and today, you get to learn how.
Dassault Systèmes believes the virtual world can extend and improve the real world – a vision reflected in its conviction that The Only Progress is Human. Through the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, the company enables individuals and organizations to design sustainable products, services and experiences that address major global challenges.
By placing people and human experience at the center of innovation, Dassault Systèmes aims to support collective progress and help create a world that harmonizes product, nature and life.
Learn More About Dassault Systèmes
Now that you’ve got the basics, let’s dive deeper!
What Does Dassault Systèmes Do?
We like to say that our products touch nearly everything in your life. One way to learn more about the breadth of our activities is to keep up with the latest happenings on the Dassault Systèmes blog.
What does Dassault Systèmes sell?
We sell the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, which is comprised of products from our 12 brands that create great user experiences and build vibrant user communities.
Are Dassault Aviation and Dassault Systèmes the Same Company?
Dassault Aviation and Dassault Systèmes are two distinct and separate companies. And just like Dassault Aviation, we are part of the Dassault Group.
Did You Know...
The virtual worlds we develop are the digital twins of the real world. Our virtual twins are rooted firmly in science, and possess the same properties you’ll find in the physical world.
Adidas uses our solutions to design better running shoes!
90% of cars in the world are engineered and/or built with our collaborative solutions.
We're More Than a Software Provider
Almost everything around you is enabled in some way by Dassault Systèmes.
Dassault Systèmes 3DEXPERIENCE platform is the backbone of a company’s product development.
A Game-Changer for Business and Innovation
Dassault Systèmes is innovation-driven. When in 2012 we declared that product alone is no longer enough to build a sustainable economy, we shifted our focus to supporting the Experience Economy, a system where value is shaped by usage and societal impact.
We launched the 3DEXPERIENCE platform to connect people, ideas, data and solutions in a unified environment, offering new ways to innovate, produce and sell and helping businesses of all sizes manage their operations and ecosystems in real time.
The 3DEXPERIENCE platform provides our customers with products, services and content to improve end-user experience.
It empowers next-generation innovators to enhance the real world through the virtual world: creating, designing and testing the new experiences needed to build and sustain a sustainable economy from idea to market delivery to usage.
The 3DEXPERIENCE platform Caters to the Needs of Different Industries
Sustainably transform industries, markets and customer experience
Every day, both individuals and companies ranging from startups to the world’s largest enterprises turn industry challenges into business opportunities thanks to the 3DEXPERIENCE platform.
Discover how Dassault Systèmes has helped companies in your industry improve their products, boost their efficiency and reduce costs – all while keeping sustainable practices at the forefront.
Explore our portfolio
Dassault Systèmes provides our customers with a portfolio of experiences, including cloud services or Software as a Service, the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, and a range of Experiences as a Service.
The 3DEXPERIENCE platform offers a holistic approach to innovation by connecting R&D, engineering, production, marketing and end users to allow every actor of an innovation project to interact and collaborate seamlessly. It also introduces an innovative business model, creating direct connections between sellers and buyers, subscribers and subcontractors, service providers and end customers.
Our Mission and Values Guide Everything We Do
For the past 45+ years, Dassault Systèmes has touched the world by enabling breakthroughs that have impacted human-kind. As these transformative innovations continue, and we shift our focus from things to life, our mission remains the same.
Our Mission
Dassault Systèmes enables sustainable economic and social innovation that helps improve the world. Guided by its belief that The Only Progress is Human, the company connects virtual and real worlds to advance human-centered progress: Virtual Worlds for Real Life.
Our Values
Dassault Systèmes’ values are driven by a shared ambition: to make a lasting, positive impact on society. We help people build a questioning mindset that we call IFWE: “IF” refers to our passion to explore new possibilities and “WE” is our belief that, by connecting people, we can bring positive change.
We're Growing Under the Guidance and Leadership of Talented Minds
As the global leader in sustainable innovation, Dassault Systèmes is led by an inspiring group of leaders who are driven to execute our long-term vision of addressing the globe’s major challenges.
The Only Progress is Human
Through a multi-year initiative, Dassault Systèmes is shedding light on 10 major challenges the world is facing, inviting the world to discover how innovation plays a key role in addressing humanity’s needs.
For each challenge, we respond with an act. Each act symbolizes and highlights our commitment to meet these ten challenges, and to inspire others to act in their own spheres. Though no one solution is sufficient on its own, when innovations are made by people, for people, they can lead to real progress, and change the world.
Our Virtual Twins Help Build a Better Future
Dassault Systèmes is changing the rules of the game to make a positive impact on society.
We are at the Forefront of Innovation
Dassault Systèmes continues to rank on the Forbes Global 2000 list.
Internationally Recognized for our ESG Leadership
Dassault Systèmes is continually strengthening our sustainability performance and earning global recognition for our progress.
We improve CITIES FOR PEOPLE
We empower governments to make the right decisions to improve the experiences of citizens, using the 3DEXPERIENCE platform to create virtual twin experiences of cities.
We impact PERSONALIZED HEALTHCARE
Powerful knowledge results when we can visualize, test, understand and predict what cannot be seen. Our mission: to invent the virtual twin of the human body to advance precision medicine.
We transform MANUFACTURING BUSINESSES
The manufacturing industry needs to embrace new, more sustainable approaches, materials and business models to meet the demands of today and create a better tomorrow.
Questions? Get in Touch!
No matter where your business operates in the world, Dassault Systèmes is there to support you in your innovative projects.
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