Facts and FAQs

The easiest way to think of it is “Daso Sis-tem.”

Dassault Systèmes does not manufacture aircraft. Its sister company, Dassault Aviation, designs, manufactures, sells and supports military aircraft, business jets and space systems.

Dassault Systèmes provides software and virtual twin technologies used across the aerospace and defense industry, one of the 12 industries it serves. Its solutions help companies design, engineer, manufacture and support aircraft and other aerospace and defense products.

Dassault Systèmes serves 12 industries grouped into three economic sectors: Manufacturing Industries (Transportation & Mobility; Aerospace & Defense; Marine & Offshore; Industrial Equipment; High‑Tech; Home & Lifestyle; Consumer Packaged Goods – Retail), Life Sciences & Healthcare and Infrastructure & Cities (Infrastructure, Energy & Materials; Architecture, Engineering & Construction; Business Services; Cities & Public Services).

The better question might be: who isn’t? Dassault Systèmes serves more than 390,000 customers worldwide, from startups and small and mid-sized businesses to the world’s largest companies, as well as educational institutions, government organizations and individual users. Across 12 industries, its solutions help create and improve many of the products, processes and experiences around us every day.

Customers’ reasons for choosing Dassault Systèmes are as varied as the 390,000+ organizations who use us! Boil it down, however, and they all revolve around Dassault Systèmes’ stable 45+year track record of innovation and unique ability to improve not only their products, but also their processes. Dassault Systèmes customers trust us to help them thrive in a chaotic, fast-shifting business environment – and to do so in ways that will also accomplish their sustainability goals.

No! CATIA is one of Dassault Systèmes’ 12 brands that create great user experiences and build vibrant user communities. CATIA was the company’s first brand, originating from technology developed at Dassault Aviation before Dassault Systèmes was founded in 1981.

For more than 40 years, CATIA has helped transform how products are designed and engineered in 3D. Today, it is part of a broader portfolio of Dassault Systèmes brands that support different industries and disciplines.

A virtual twin experience is a closed-loop connection between the virtual and real worlds to create scientifically accurate complex systems – from cars to cities to human hearts – on which to experiment, resulting in a constant cycle of improvements. Virtual twins are rooted in scientific principles and go much further than digital twins, which represent the shape of a specific physical object in 3D. They allow you to visualize, model and simulate an entire environment and facilitate sustainable business innovation across the complete product lifecycle.

3D UNIV+RSES are a new class of representation of the world that combine modeling, simulation, data science and AI-generated content. 

They represent a new category of experiences poised to transform the creation and manufacturing of sustainable products and services. They enable the virtualization of an entire product lifecycle by linking virtual twins across design, engineering, manufacturing and operations, as well as by combining multiple virtual twins across companies. 

3D UNIV+RSES offer secured industry environments for organizations to experiment, learn and innovate with artificial intelligence, capitalizing on their knowledge and know-how.

3DEXPERIENCE focuses on the end-user’s experience. PLM only focuses on the product, its features and how it’s produced.

We have not pulled out of PLM; it remains part of our solutions. But 3DEXPERIENCE is broader and lies at the heart of our distinctive positioning in the experience economy. It allows us to play in the new social industry world that our customers are facing and that requires them to evolve from “product attributes” to experiences. Learn more about PLM.

Industrial World Models are pre-built, physics-based knowledge models that capture decades of industry expertise in a form your teams can use. Each one encodes the rules, materials and behaviors specific to your field, so the platform understands the data and how your products and processes actually work. This foundation makes AI guidance trustworthy because it rests on validated science rather than statistics alone. The result is faster, reliable answers, grounded in proven engineering knowledge.

Dassault Systèmes is a European company with a global presence and market reach. Dassault Systèmes has headquarters in Europe, the Americas and Asia Pacific; specifically Velizy (outside Paris), Waltham (outside Boston) and Shanghai, respectively. But you can find Dassault Systèmes at over 188 sites around the world! Discover all locations on our Contact us page.

Pascal Daloz is Dassault Systèmes' Chief Executive Officer & Chairman. With his ability to embrace future trends and bring together the most original talents, Pascal Daloz has made a key contribution to Dassault Systèmes’ policy of pioneering new sectors, especially life sciences and healthcare. He takes a multidisciplinary approach to the company’s development, leveraging the platform economy. Meet our entire Executive Team.

After starting as a 3D Design company in 1981, then expanding to DMU, PLM and 3DEXPERIENCE, in 2020 Dassault Systèmes committed to transforming the organic world in the same way that it’s been a catalyst and enabler for industrial transformation. In 2025, Dassault Systèmes’ shared a new ambition for helping to shape a generative economy by 2040 driven by 3D UNIV+RSES. This expansion of scope calls for new areas of expertise, including biology, geology, materials science and more. Dassault Systèmes’ strategy combines organic growth and acquiring firms that offer extensive expertise in these fields. Dassault Systèmes has sustained a strong level of organic growth in all aspects of its business, especially R&D, and has acquired over 90 firms since our founding.

Everything Dassault Systèmes does is in service of creating a positive impact on the world. Its commitment to climate neutrality by 2040 guides both how the company operates and the solutions it provides to customers. Its corporate purpose is to enable sustainable innovation capable of harmonizing product, nature and life.

Dassault Systèmes’ sustainability strategy addresses both its footprint, by reducing the environmental impact of its own operations, and its handprint, by helping customers use virtual twins and the 3DEXPERIENCE platform to reduce waste, support circularity and develop more sustainable products, processes and business models.

Dassault Systèmes believes virtual universes can accelerate the design and testing of new materials, products and manufacturing processes for a more sustainable economy. Its emissions-reduction commitments are validated by the Science Based Targets initiative and aligned with the Paris Agreement. Discover our sustainability roadmap.

Dassault Systèmes worldwide partner network provides its customers with the best industry solution experiences and products to address their digital transformation. To discover collaboration opportunities and contact us to identify how we can best serve clients together, go to our Partners section.

Dassault Systèmes organizes and takes part in events all around the world! Visit our Events section to see where we'll be next!

The Only Progress is Human is a multi-year initiative by Dassault Systèmes that aims to increase awareness of today’s societal and environmental challenges. It showcases how with human-centric, real-world experiences, people can address 10 major global challenges through imagination and innovation. For each global challenge, including health, water, mobility, energy, nature and more, Dassault Systèmes responds with an act that symbolizes our commitment to meet these challenges and presents an opportunity for humanity to challenge the status quo.

Dassault Systèmes is proud to be recognized by global organizations as a great place to work. For example, Dassault Systèmes was named a 2025 Leading Employer in Europe. If sustainability is an important factor in where you choose to work, you can also explore Dassault Systèmes’ latest sustainability ratings, rankings and awards to see how the company’s commitments and performance are recognized externally.

Dassault Systèmes corporate culture is guided by core values and a shared ambition to make a lasting, positive impact on everyone’s lives. Dassault Systèmes values help employees build a questioning mindset: “IF” refers to our passion to explore new possibilities and “WE” to our belief that, by connecting people, we can bring about meaningful change. Read about our values here.

Dassault Systèmes offices are located worldwide, in 155 countries. You can find them all here. At Dassault Systèmes, we firmly believe that the creative and development processes are optimized through team collaboration at our sites. We have also implemented a flexible work arrangement for all our employees.

The selection criteria may differ depending on your level of experience and area of expertise. After an initial screening by a recruiter, you will be contacted if your profile matches a job opening.

You will have a first interview with the recruiter, then with the hiring manager. Additional interviews with other stakeholders may be necessary.

• For non-English native candidates, an English test might be required.
• For developers or technical roles, a coding test might be required.

Learn more about our recruitment process

Every year, Dassault Systèmes hosts more than 1,800 students all over the world through internships, apprenticeships and work-study placements. We align with university calendars to ensure we fit perfectly to student needs and availabilities, and do everything we can to support students to help them grow while they're with us.

To learn more about our student programs, click here.

Yes! Industry is constantly shifting – as are the skills needed to shape a more sustainable world. 3DEXPERIENCE Edu is dedicated to helping the workforce upskill and reskill to develop talents that meet companies' ever-evolving hiring needs. Dassault Systèmes’ certification programs provide customers, users, partners, students and educators with a globally valuable index for measuring knowledge and skills against market norms.

Dassault Systèmes offers a wealth of learning materials, by domain, industry and product on our 3DEXPERIENCE Edu website. The public 3DEXPERIENCE Edu Communities provide direct access to the latest 3DEXPERIENCE news, best practices, expert help and more.

Dassault Systèmes' certification program is a passport to future employability, and the demand for this certification is continuously increasing! Certification provides customers, users, partners, students and educators with a globally valuable index for measuring knowledge and skills to promote future-ready competencies.

Getting certified requires serious preparation! Dassault Systèmes Professional Level Certifications require initial hands-on experience in addition to either training at a Dassault Systèmes Authorized Education Partner, your university or school, or online via 3DEXPERIENCE Edu Space. You can learn more about certification levels and processes here.

Dassault Systèmes has a catalog of 3DEXPERIENCE solutions for students which you can discover and shop for here. Dassault Systèmes also offers student challenges that utilize our software. Discover the latest opportunities here!

The 3DEXPERIENCE Lab is an open innovation lab that accelerates early-stage projects from startups, innovator communities and research laboratories. Its goal is to build a community of intelligent, creative and passionate people, focused on positively impacting society through the creation of disruptive, groundbreaking projects. Hundreds of projects have been put forward and supported by a community of around 2,500 mentors. Since its inception in 2015, the Lab has supported over 100 projects worldwide through its six physical sites located in the United States, India, Europe (France and Germany), China and Brazil.

Dassault Systèmes supports innovative young companies through its 3DEXPERIENCE Lab acceleration program in four areas: 

• three-to five-year technological support through access to the 3DEXPERIENCE platform and the provision of Dassault Systèmes solutions tailored to each startup’s needs;
• technological and business expertise provided by the Lab team and the community of mentors, all employees of the Company. Employees can allocate up to 10% of their working time to these projects; 
• access to FabLab prototyping facilities; 
• marketing and communication support, including visibility for startups, participation in international events, presentations to customers, partners, or investors, and participation in media campaigns. 

The target is to support projects that, through additive manufacturing (or 3D printing), AI, big data, or virtual reality, contribute, among other things, to reducing GHG emissions and transitioning to a circular economy, as well as accelerating therapeutic innovations in the Life Sciences & Healthcare sector.

Dassault Systèmes sells software, cloud infrastructure and AI-powered virtual experiences that help organizations design, simulate, manufacture and operate products and services. At the center of its portfolio is the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, which connects people, data and processes across the full innovation cycle. Its offerings range from tools for individual roles to industry-wide solutions, supported by secure cloud services from OUTSCALE. Dassault Systèmes also provides Generative Experiences, AI-powered Virtual Companions and Virtual Twins as a Service, enabling companies to test scenarios, optimize decisions and improve performance before acting in the real world.

We have five different sales channels, each based on client size and sophistication, who services the customer, geographic coverage and whether the relationship occurs primarily in-person or online. You can get a quote, a demo or contact our sales teams here.

Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE platform connects businesses to all stakeholders, both internal and external, in a holistic approach to innovation, from design, engineering, manufacturing, sales and marketing, to usage. The 3DEXPERIENCE platform allows every actor of an innovation project – from research labs to factories to end consumers – 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.

The twelve brands of Dassault Systèmes, powered by the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, are organized into portfolios of experiences:

— Portfolio of social and collaborative experiences: CENTRIC, ENOVIA;

— Portfolio of 3D modeling experiences: SOLIDWORKS, CATIA, GEOVIA, BIOVIA;

— Portfolio of simulation experiences: SIMULIA, DELMIA, 3DVIA;

— Portfolio of information intelligence experiences: 3DEXPERIENCE, MEDIDATA;

— infrastructure for business experiences: OUTSCALE.

Yes. Dassault Systèmes offers the 3DEXPERIENCE platform and a growing portfolio of cloud-based solutions. In 2025, cloud software revenue increased 8% and represented 25% of total software revenue. Expanding cloud adoption and developing cloud-native applications remain major priorities for the company’s research and development teams. Built on an online architecture, the 3DEXPERIENCE platform enables organizations to connect people, data and processes securely while accessing collaborative design, simulation and innovation capabilities from the cloud. Learn more about Dassault Systèmes cloud solutions here.

The on-demand 3DEXPERIENCE Marketplace helps designers across the world to easily manufacture, find standard parts or hire temporary engineering.

To access to your 3DEXPERIENCE platform, you need: 

• To check the compatibility of your environment with 3DEXPERIENCE platform on cloud, thanks to the Cloud Eligibility tool.
• A 3DEXPERIENCE ID, the unique access to your 3DEXPERIENCE platform and all Dassault Systèmes private content.

If you already have a 3DEXPERIENCE ID, please connect directly to your 3DEXPERIENCE platform.

If you don’t have a 3DEXPERIENCE ID, check the FAQ How to create a 3DEXPERIENCE ID.

To complete the online installation of the 3DEXPERIENCE native applications, perform the following steps explained on the page Native apps installation.

If you need some support on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform on cloud, you can contact the Online User Excellence Center.
Choose the right way for you to contact the team:

• Submit a Request
• Phone
• Email

You can also receive information in the 3DEXPERIENCE platform on cloud support webpages.

Our solutions/roles are available for Companies (roles are presented here), Students (offers are presented here) as well as hobbyists with a dedicated maker offer.

All the solutions/roles of the 3DEXPERIENCE platform available for purchase online are Cloud-based. However, all our 3DEXPERIENCE platform on the Cloud portfolio is not available for purchase online. If you have specific needs, do not hesitate to contact us so we can find the best solution for you.

If the role/offer you want to purchase is available for purchase online in your country, you will see a buy button that you can just click on. You can then simply add the role/offer to your cart.
You will need to log in or create an account to finalize your purchase. If the role is not available for purchase online, do not hesitate to contact us and we will reach out to you directly with other options for purchasing the roles you want.

To request a software license key, please contact your Dassault Systèmes Sales Contact or Distributor with the necessary technical information.
For this purpose, you can download and complete the license key request form on the Software License Key page ("Obtaining Software License keys" section).

You need to have a 3DEXPERIENCE ID member of your company (Dassault Systèmes Customer Account).

1. Go to https://software.3ds.com
2. Log in with your 3DEXPERIENCE ID.
3. In “Download My Supported Software” section, you will retrieve and download software you are supported for
      a. All software you are allowed to access through your company site's supported solutions.
      b. Solution under support automatically grants you access to all corresponding releases, levels and fixes.
4. In “Download My Orders” section, you will access the list of Media Orders containing software download access for past Purchase Order.
5. In this section software can be accessed and downloaded even if you are not supported anymore for the corresponding solutions.

We invite you to browse the software.3ds.com/help page for additional information on how to download your software.

If you have any question regarding 3DEXPERIENCE ID, please contact your company’s Security Administrator (or Support Administrator) and get your 3DEXPERIENCE ID to login to your Dassault Systèmes Customer Account.
If you are not able to identify this person or if this person has not yet been designated, contact your Customer Support Center.

Access Support Request Management Tool: 3DSupport App

This Tool enables you to Submit Requests, Exchange with Technical Experts, Customize your Dashboard, Manage Contacts, and Download Media, Service Packs and Fixes for your Dassault Systèmes Solutions.

You first need to get a 3DEXPERIENCE ID (Dassault Systèmes Customer Account).

Contact your company’s Security Administrator to get a 3DEXPERIENCE ID. If you are not able to identify that person or if they have not yet been designated, contact your Customer Support Center.

The 3DS Passport gives you access to online private content on 3ds.com/support: Knowledge Base, Documentation, Software Download.

If you need more information about how to create a Service Request, please watch our Support Tool Tutorials.