Dassault Systemes Announces IBM to Sell Complete SmarTeam Portfolio for Collaborative Product Data Management Across the Supply Chain.Business Editors WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. & SURESNES, France--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 2, 2001 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) and 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. (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) today announced that IBM will complete its SmarTeam product line with the addition of SmarTeam e-Supply Chain applications to its 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. 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 ) portfolio. IBM's PLM offerings deliver 3D product management and development capabilities to manufacturing companies using innovation as a competitive differentiator. Dassault's SmarTeam e-Supply Chain solutions enable up-to-date and precise sharing of product information between a dispersed network of suppliers and customers, subject matter experts and subcontractors across the Internet. Exploiting the latest web concepts for collaboration, all members of the supply chain can work together irrespective of the native design systems used to create the product information. Etienne Droit [French, Justice, right, law.] A term denoting the abstract concept of law or a right. Droit is as variable a phrase as the English right or the Latin jus. It signifies the entire body of law or a right in terms of a duty or obligation. , vice president Sales and Marketing, Dassault Systemes, explained, "Delivering state-of-the-art collaboration across the e-supply chain is a key objective of our SmarTeam portfolio because we anticipate that this domain will drive significant savings for manufacturing industries and accelerate product innovation. SmarTeam now allows organizations to easily publish project data, form extended project teams, and promote e-collaboration and enforce security - all within a Web-based environment, particularly adapted to the extended enterprise. SmarTeam represents a new way to bring innovative and profitable products to the market effectively." According to industry analyst firm CIMData the collaborative Product Development Collaborative Product Development (Collaborative Product Design) (CPD) is a business strategy, work process and collection of software applications that facilitates different organizations to work together on the development of a product. management (cPDm) sector will have annual growth of an impressive 36 percent. Ed Miller, president, CIMData, said, " The SmarTeam products provide an excellent extension to the suite of solutions already offered by IBM's Product Lifecycle Management portfolio. SmarTeam's offerings provide solid capabilities to support many of the small and mid-sized enterprises that IBM works with around the world. The integration of SmarTeam with 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. also extends these offerings to provide an alternative gateway into the CATIA design environment. These capabilities help to complete the total suite of offerings from IBM and Dassault Systemes." Herve Rolland, vice president Global 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 Solutions, IBM Product Lifecycle Management, said, "IBM knowledge and technology, coupled with SmarTeam applications provide our customers with new strategic opportunities to gain competitive advantage and grow their businesses. The complete SmarTeam application suite, that we now offer our customers, will enable them to achieve greater efficiency in design data tracking, revision management, and the management of the entire product lifecycle." About IBM IBM is the world's largest information technology company, with more than 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 (Nasdaq: DASTY; Euronext Paris: #13065, DSY.PA) 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, 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 software solutions based on Windows and the internet. Spatial, also part of 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 Corp. SmarTeam Corp., a Dassault Systemes S.A. (Nasdaq: DASTY; Euronext Paris: #13065, DSY.PA) company, develops and markets rapidly-implemented, yet totally customizable, Windows and Web-centric collaborative product commerce (CPC (1) (Central Processing Complex) An IBM mainframe that has two or more central processors (CPs) that share memory. It is the collection of processors, memory and I/O subsystems manufactured with a single serial number, typically all contained in one cabinet. ) and product data management (PDM) solutions to enable collaboration between teams, within the enterprise and throughout the supply chain. SmarTeam was founded in 1995 under the name SmarTeam Corp. and is one of the fastest-growing companies in the data management market with over 1,500 customers worldwide. SmarTeam's broad solutions portfolio enables manufacturing organizations and their supply chains to efficiently exchange, track and manage design information related to product development from concept to 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 more information, please visit the company's website at http://www.smarteam.com |
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