Facts and FAQs
Get to know Dassault Systèmes
Dassault Systèmes by the Numbers
Learn more about us through key statistics.
- 25,000
Employees worldwide
- 184
Sites worldwide
- 370,000+
customers ranging from entrepreneurs to multinationals, in 12 industries
- €6.21 bn
Total revenue in 2024*
- 159
Countries with active customers
- #4
Ranking in the software sector by Dow Jones Sustainability Index
- $50.37 bn USD
Market capitalization
- 41%
R&D headcount
Interesting Facts about Dassault Systèmes
Every day for the past 44 years, more than 25,000 Dassault Systèmes employees across 184 sites help businesses and people contribute to world firsts and drive profound industrial and societal transformations. Here’s a few ways we do that:
Frequently Asked Questions
Learn answers to some of our most frequently asked questions.
Company
We provide virtual twin experiences to help companies sustainably push the boundaries of innovation, learning and production. Through our 3DEXPERIENCE platform and applications, we empower companies of all sizes to freely test their ideas, products and experiences while providing all stakeholders across the product development process a holistic, real-time vision of all business activity and the extended ecosystem.
The easiest way to think of it is “Daso Sis-tem.”
We do not – that’s our sister company, Dassault Aviation. But we do help the entire aerospace & defense industry innovate, along with 11 other industries.
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).
Maybe the better question is – who isn’t?! We pride ourselves in being behind the products and structures all around you everyday. Our 370,000+ customers extend from startups, small and mid-sized companies to the largest firms in the world and also include educational institutions and government departments. Even individuals can now buy our solutions!
Our customers’ reasons for choosing Dassault Systèmes are as varied as the 370,000+ organizations who use us! Boil it down, however, and they all revolve around our stable 40+-year track record of innovation and our unique ability to improve not only their products, but also their processes – an area we plan to expand aggressively in the coming years. Our 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 our 13 brands that create great user experiences and build vibrant user communities. CATIA was our first brand, spun off from Dassault Aviation back in 1981, and we’re proud of that brand’s 40+ year history and its impacts on transforming how products are designed in 3D. You can learn more about all of our brands, here.
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.
Legally, we’re a European company – but we have a global presence and market reach. We have headquarters in Europe, the Americas and Asia Pacific; specifically Velizy (outside Paris), Waltham (outside Boston) and Shanghai, respectively. But you can find us at over 180 sites around the world! Discover all locations on our Contact us page.
Pascal Daloz is our CEO, ascending to this position in 2024. He joined the company in 2001 as Vice President R&D and over time has lead Finance, Strategy, Marketing & Brands. Bernard Charlès is our Executive Chairman, having served as CEO from 1995-2023. He joined the company in 1983 as an intern and helped bring the company to our current position as the world leader in virtual universes and as the preferred partner for innovation. Meet our entire Executive Team.
We sure are! After starting as a 3D Design company in 1981, then expanding to DMU, PLM and 3DEXPERIENCE, in 2020 we committed to transforming the organic world in the same way that we’ve been a catalyst and enabler for industrial transformation. In 2025, we shared our vision of helping to shape a generative economy by 2040 driven by 3D UNIV+RSES. This expansion of our scope calls for new areas of expertise, including biology, geology, materials science and more. Our strategy combines organic growth and acquiring firms that offer extensive expertise in these fields. We’ve also sustained a strong level of organic growth in all aspects of our business, especially R&D, and we've acquired over 90 firms since our founding.
Everything we do is in service of having a positive impact on our world. We are firmly committed to doing our part to reach climate neutrality by 2040, and this guides how we operate as a company and what we offer our customers. Our corporate purpose is to enable sustainable innovations capable of harmonizing product, nature and life. We are absolutely convinced that virtual universes are the tool not only for our customers but for the world to be able to design, test and imagine radically new materials, products and manufacturing processes for tomorrow’s sustainable economy and to be able to do so at the fastest possible speed. We’ve made specific commitments in line with the Science-based targets initiative (SBTi), which supports the goals of the Paris Agreement and the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals. You can discover our sustainability roadmap here.
Our worldwide partner network provides our customers with the best industry solution experiences and products to address their digital transformation. To discover all our collaboration opportunities and contact us to identify how we can best serve clients together, go to our Partners section.
We organize and take 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, we respond with an act that symbolizes our commitment to meet these challenges and presents an opportunity for humanity to challenge the status quo.
People
We like to think so, and we're honored that global organizations have recognized this as well. As an example, in 2023 Forbes ranked us #21 on its World's Best Employers list, and #2 among French companies. If working for a company with a solid track record of action in sustainability is important to you, we direct you here to see some of our most recent recognitions for being a leader in sustainability.
Our corporate culture is guided by our values and a shared ambition to make a lasting, positive impact on everyone’s lives. Our values help our people 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. 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.
Every year, we host more than 1,900 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. We 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.
Education
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. Our certification programs provide customers, users, partners, students and educators with a globally valuable index for measuring knowledge and skills against market norms.
We offer a wealth of learning materials, by domain, industry and product on our 3DEXPERIENCE Edu website. Also, check out our public 3DEXPERIENCE Edu Communities: they 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! Our 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.
3DEXPERIENCE Lab
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 2,350 mentors. Since its inception in 2015, the Lab has supported over 80 projects in the United States, India and Europe (France and Germany).
The 3DEXPERIENCE Lab supports startups whose physical products must be able to be developed using 3D technologies and address at least one of the following five themes: City, Life, Lifestyle, Ideation and Fablab.
Every project must have the following criteria:
- be all upon the mass and collective intelligence;
- be a breakthrough/disruptive innovation in terms of products or services and;
- have an impact on society.
Discover all the projects that are currently being developed in the 3DEXPERIENCE Lab.
We sell the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, which is comprised of products from our 13 brands that create great user experiences and build vibrant user communities.
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.
The 3DEXPERIENCE platform is the most powerful and unique story we have to share and sell. Available on premise and on cloud, it's a business and innovation platform that provides organizations with a holistic, real-time view of their business activity and ecosystem. It connects people, ideas, data and solutions in a single collaborative environment. And so it empowers businesses – from the newest startup to the most established large enterprise – to innovate, produce and trade in entirely new ways.
Dassault Systèmes’ 13 brands are grouped by usage: social and collaborative applications: 3DEXCITE, CENTRIC PLM, ENOVIA; 3D modeling applications: SOLIDWORKS, CATIA, GEOVIA, BIOVIA; simulation applications: SIMULIA, DELMIA, 3DVIA; information intelligence applications: NETVIBES, MEDIDATA; and infrastructure for business experiences: OUTSCALE. These brands are focused on creating great user experiences and building vibrant user communities.
Absolutely – and more and more of our customers are deploying the 3DEXPERIENCE platform on the cloud. We continue to focus on getting more customers onto cloud; our cloud software revenue grew 7% in 2024, representing 24% of software revenue. Developing native cloud solutions is a major focus of our R&D efforts to help us continue to deliver breakthrough user experiences. The 3DEXPERIENCE platform is built around an online architecture. You can find out more about our solutions on the cloud here.
The 3DEXPERIENCE Marketplace is a cloud-based marketplace for digital design, engineering and manufacturing transactions. This means that rather than selling solutions to create a product, we make services available to facilitate that creation. From the user’s point of view, you’re not buying the solution; you’re buying the outcome of the solution.
Cloud
You can find all support information for 3DEXPERINCE platform on cloud – from getting started to maintaining and getting in touch with the community.
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:
You can also receive information in the 3DEXPERIENCE platform on cloud support webpages.
Store
You can find all support information for 3DEXPERINCE Store – from payment and purchase to support and usage.
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.
Support
You can find all useful solutions to most common problems.
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).
- Go to https://software.3ds.com
- Log in with your 3DEXPERIENCE ID.
- 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. - In “Download My Orders” section, you will access the list of Media Orders containing software download access for past Purchase Order.
- 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 him or if he has 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.
In you need more information about how to create a Service Request, please watch our Support Tool Tutorials.