Dassault Systemes' SMARTEAM Provides Product Lifecycle Collaboration Solutions on IBM's DB2 Database Software.Business Editors & Technology Writers KFAR SABA Kfar Saba (Hebrew: כפר סבא) ("Grandfather's Village" or Saba's Village"), also Kefar Sava, is a city in the Sharon area, Center District of Israel in Israel. , Israel & PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 11, 2002 Enabling Customers to Speed Innovative Products to Market within a Proven Data Management Environment IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Dassault Systemes Dassault Systemes (Dassault Systèmes S.A.) (Pronounced - Dasoh) (NASDAQ: DASTY; Euronext: 13065) is a leading company specializing in 3D and PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) software. and SMARTEAM announced today that SMARTEAM's Product Lifecycle Product lifecycle or product life cycle is the course of a product's sales and profits over time. The five stages of each product lifecycle are product development, introduction, growth, maturity and decline. Collaboration solutions have been enabled to interoperate with IBM's DB2 database software creating a powerful platform for comprehensive Product Lifecycle Management (PLM (Product Life cycle Management) A comprehensive information system that coordinates all aspects of a product from initial concept to its eventual retirement. Sometimes called the "digital backbone" of a product, it includes the requirements phase, analysis and design ). The potent combination of SMARTEAM and IBM's DB2 will provide users with a competitively priced, integrated solution that will reduce time and simplify the installation, administration, configuration and maintenance of product lifecycle management (PLM) environments. "Today's announcement is another example of leading application developers choosing to standardize on IBM's DB2 database as their preferred deployment platform," said Lauren Flaherty, vice president of marketing, IBM Data Management Solutions. "The combination of DB2 and SMARTEAM provides customers with significant performance improvements at the lowest cost of ownership for product lifecycle management applications." "IBM's DB2 solutions are a distinct standard in data management and will be attractive to our expanding customer base," said Tanya Epstein, Executive Vice-President, Research and Development, SMARTEAM. "By providing IBM's DB2 database software with SMARTEAM solutions, our customers can now focus their deployment activities on developing and delivering innovative products to their markets knowing that their product data resides within a proven data management environment." The SMARTEAM suite of market-leading Product Lifecycle Collaboration solutions provides enterprises of all sizes a broad range of integrated, web-centric, business process solutions covering all aspects of product lifecycle support, and integrating with supply chain management, enterprise resource planning See ERP. (application, business) Enterprise Resource Planning - (ERP) Any software system designed to support and automate the business processes of medium and large businesses. , and other business process management applications. Developed in conjunction with innovative industry-leading customers, and integrating best-in-class business practices for product development management, the SMARTEAM integrated solutions capture, promote, and support these best practices throughout the extended enterprise. As the foundation for e-business, IBM's DB2 is the industry's first multimedia, Web-ready relational database management system relational database management system - relational database , strong enough to meet the demands of large corporations and flexible enough to serve medium-sized and small e-businesses. IBM's DB2 combines integrated power for business intelligence, content management, enterprise information portals See corporate portal. and e-business with industry-leading performance and reliability to drive the most demanding industry solutions. DB2 Universal Database together with Internet technology makes information easily accessible, available and secure. There are more than 60 million DB2 users from over 450,000 companies worldwide relying on IBM data management solutions. For more information please visit http://www.software.ibm.com/data. About IBM IBM is the world's largest information technology company, with 80 years of leadership in helping businesses innovate. IBM Sales & Distribution, which supports more than a dozen key industries worldwide, works with companies of all sizes around the world to deploy the full range of IBM technologies. The fastest way to get more information about IBM is through the IBM home page at http://www.ibm.com About Dassault Systemes Dassault Systemes is the premier global software developer for the CAD/CAM/CAE/PLM market, providing companies with e-business solutions to implement their digital enterprise, thus creating and simulating the entire product life cycle from initial concept to product in service. CATIA A family of 2D and 3D CAD programs from IBM. CATIA was one of the first CAD programs to provide 3D solid modeling. The program was developed by Dassault Systems, a French aerospace company. , ENOVIA and DELMIA DELMIA Digital Enterprise Lean Manufacturing Interactive Application Solutions support industry-specific business processes to help unleash creativity and innovation, reduce development cycle time, improve quality, competitiveness and shareholder value: CATIA supports the digital product definition and simulation, DELMIA provides solutions to define and simulate lean digital manufacturing processes and ENOVIA delivers enterprise solutions that manage a comprehensive, collaborative and distributed model of the digital product, processes and resources. The combined integration creates the Digital Product life cycle Pipeline, supporting reuse of corporate knowledge. SolidWorks and SMARTEAM, as Dassault Systemes companies, offer respectively 3D design-centric and collaborative PDM (1) (Product Data Management) An information system used to manage the data for a product as it passes from engineering to manufacturing. The data includes plans, geometric models, CAD drawings, images, NC programs as well as all related project data, notes and software solutions based on Windows and the Internet. Spatial, also part of the Dassault Systemes family, is a market-leading provider of world-class 3D software components and services (for 3D modeling, visualization, and interoperability) to meet the requirements of 3D in Internet-based e-commerce and B2B (Business to Business) Refers to one business communicating with or selling to another. See B2B e-commerce, B2C and B2G. B2B - business to business applications. Information about Dassault Systemes is available at http://www.dsweb.com About SMARTEAM SMARTEAM, a Dassault Systemes S.A. company, (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : DASTY; Euronext Paris Euronext Paris is France's securities market, formerly known as the Paris Bourse, which merged with the Amsterdam and Brussels exchanges in September 2000 to form Euronext NV, which is the second largest exchange in Europe behind the London Stock Exchange. : #13065, DSY DSY Drum Storage Yard .PA) develops, markets and supports rapidly-implemented, yet totally customizable, product lifecycle collaboration solutions that drive efficiency, quality and responsiveness for customer centric organizations and their value chains. Founded in 1995, SMARTEAM is one of the fastest-growing companies in the PLM market with over 2,000 customers worldwide, and a broad solutions portfolio that enables manufacturing organizations and their supply chains to efficiently manage and collaborate on product information from concept through realization. SMARTEAM's solutions help companies gain improvements in product quality, reduce costs, expedite project turnaround, comply with industry standards and shorten time-to-market. For additional information, please go to: www.smarteam.com. |
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