Dassault Systemes and IBM Expand Partnership By Adding SmarTeam Solutions to Product Lifecycle Management Portfolio.Business/Technology Editors WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. & SURESNES, France--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 19, 2001 SmarTeam Links 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 and e-Supply Chain Support for Manufacturing Industries manufacturing industries npl → industrias fpl manufactureras manufacturing industries npl → industries fpl de transformation 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) and 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) today announced that IBM will sell the SmarTeam product suite as part of its worldwide 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 (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) portfolio. Developed by SmarTeam Corp., a subsidiary of Dassault Systemes, SmarTeam links collaborative Product Data Management (PDM) and e-Supply Chain support into a single Web and Windows solution for manufacturing industries. Capturing enterprise intellectual property at its source, SmarTeam drives product knowledge throughout the product lifecycle, enabling collaboration across multiple sites, suppliers and customers. Fast to implement, SmarTeam provides seamless integration An addition of a new application, routine or device that works smoothly with the existing system. It implies that the new feature or program can be installed and used without problems. Contrast with "transparent," which implies that there is no discernible change after installation. 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. Version 5 and various other CAD systems, such as SolidWorks, SolidEdge, AutoCAD and Mechanical Desktop, as well as gateways with other enterprise PDM and 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. (ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) An integrated information system that serves all departments within an enterprise. Evolving out of the manufacturing industry, ERP implies the use of packaged software rather than proprietary software written by or for one customer. ) systems. Complementing the ENOVIA Solutions that cover large scale product and process end-to-end development, the SmarTeam portfolio now sold by IBM will further enhance IBM and Dassault Systemes' presence among manufacturers and their supply chains, specifically in the fabrication fabrication (fab´rikā´sh  n),n the construction or making of a restoration. & assembly, electrical & electronics, plant design and management and consumer goods consumer goods Any tangible commodity purchased by households to satisfy their wants and needs. Consumer goods may be durable or nondurable. Durable goods (e.g., autos, furniture, and appliances) have a significant life span, often defined as three years or more, and industries, as well as departmental and supply chain installations in automotive, aerospace and shipbuilding industries. The agreement adds a world-class distribution and support channel to SmarTeam, and will enable enhanced deployment capability and customer support worldwide. "IBM's PLM portfolio is unparalleled in the collaborative product design industry," said Ed Petrozelli, General Manager, IBM Product Lifecycle Management. "We offer the best-of-breed solutions for companies of all sizes in any industry and, matched with our hardware, middleware and services IBM is tough to beat." Bernard Charles Bernard Charles is the CEO of Dassault Systemes. References
SmarTeam has pioneered fundamental changes in the Product Data Management market, utilizing Windows and internet-based technologies to bring the benefits of e-collaboration to manufacturing enterprises of all sizes. SmarTeam is now ranked by CIMdata to be one of the Top 10 worldwide cPDm (collaborative Product Definition management) technology solutions in the $2.86 billion worldwide cPDm market. "The addition of the SmarTeam suite of products into IBM's PLM portfolio is a solid move. The SmarTeam products provide an opportunity for IBM to address the needs of a much wider range of situations by providing technologies targeted at either smaller companies or design groups within larger organizations," said Ed Miller, President of CIMdata, a leading global consulting and research firm. "SmarTeam's suite of products have already been well received by the market, and should strengthen Dassault Systemes and IBM's position as industry investments in these solutions continue to grow rapidly." SmarTeam's CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , Avinoam Nowogrodski said, "The new agreement with IBM is a significant step in our strategy to bring the benefits of rapidly implementable collaborative PDM solutions to broader markets. The full range of SmarTeam Windows and Web-based products and their integration with CATIA V5 will further enable IBM customers to innovate, shorten time to market, reduce manufacturing costs and improve product value." "We decided to invest in product lifecycle management solutions to make sure we would not lose business to our competitors," confirmed Gary Kahrau, Vice President, Technology at Stellex Monitor Aerospace. "Even at these early stages of deploying CATIA and SmarTeam, we have already seen significant savings in new job start-ups and we have reduced our lead time by 25 percent." 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 SA 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 FACT SHEET SmarTeam Portfolio IBM's product lifecycle management (PLM) portfolio of SmarTeam applications provides rapidly implemented, scalable, customizable and cost-effective Windows and Web-based collaborative product commerce (CPC) solutions for the extended enterprise and the supply chain, allowing manufacturers to share and exchange product information throughout the enterprise and across the supply chain. Providing best-in-class solutions for the fabrication & assembly, electrical & electronics, consumer goods, plant design and management, as well as departmental and supply chain installations in automotive, aerospace and shipbuilding industries, SmarTeam's offering is based upon its Core solutions, and is organized into three solution families - Workgroup, Enterprise and e-Supply Chain solutions: Core Solutions SmarTeam(R) SmarTeam(R) is a leading Windows and web-based business collaboration solution allowing manufacturers to share and exchange product information throughout the enterprise and across the supply chain. A uniquely cost-effective and rapidly implemented PDM solution, SmarTeam also serves as the core of a CPC enterprise system. SmarTeam leverages a company's knowledge base by enabling effective information collaboration See data conferencing. and improved data flow within an organization. SmartVault Server As security is of the highest priority, the SmartVault Server allows you to define vaults and set up security modes for the vaults. In addition, SmarTeam both implements the vault server process and displays a log of all vault activity. SmarTeam is complemented by an entire application suite, which empowers product teams to collaborate on product development information across an enterprise and between manufacturers and their suppliers. SmarTeam extends accuracy, security and productivity into procurement, manufacturing and throughout the supply chain, enabling them to deliver higher quality products to market more quickly and cheaply. All modules work together to assure that the correct information efficiently reaches the necessary people throughout the extended enterprise, enabling true business collaboration. Workgroup Solutions Specific industries require specific tools to be competitive. In the manufacturing industry, CAD products have provided that competitive edge. SmarTeam's Workgroup Solutions extend the capability of today's leading CAD products to help reduce time-to-market and increase Return on Investment (ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). ). Tight integration into Windows, CAD, and office software, has enabled SmarTeam to develop a new PDM methodology, called "in process". Via this methodology, you no longer have to leave your regular design environment to manage your data - the management simply becomes part of the normal design process. Because all key features, such as search, locate and life cycle/revision control operations, have been intuitively designed and are located inside the design application, you don't have to spend extra time re-keying your data. SmarTeam offers lower-priced workgroup level "Plug-In" products that integrate to a single CAD application. As a company's data management needs grow beyond the single CAD environment, or beyond the workgroup, there is a smooth migration to the full SmarTeam product. Additional CAD integrations are developed by SmarTeam Partners. SmartEdge(R): fully integrated, easy-to-use, customizable drawing, document and product data management tool for users of Solid Edge(R). SmartDesk(R): designed to give AutoCAD and Mechanical Desktop (MDT MDT abbr. Mountain Daylight Time MDT (in the US and Canada) Mountain Daylight Time MDT n abbr (US) (= mountain daylight time) → ) users the tools to create, edit, view, control, and annotate annotate - annotation AutoCAD, MDT and office type documents. SmartExpress(TM): specifically designed to give SolidWorks users the tools to manage, create, edit, and annotate their designs and related documents, such as office or any other type of file. SmartInventor(TM): seamlessly integrated, affordable, Windows based (1) (Windows-based; upper case "W") Refers to Microsoft Windows. (2) (windows-based; lower case "w") Having resizable windows. Same as "graphics based" or "GUI based." Graphical user interfaces are all windows based. Contrast with text based. drawing and document management plug-in for users of Autodesk Inventor Autodesk Inventor is the 3D parametric solid modeling package produced by U.S.-based software company Autodesk. It competes with other CAD systems such as SolidWorks, Pro/ENGINEER, and Solid Edge. . CATIA TeamPDM: Developed by Dassault Systemes, CATIA V5 users benefit from the full power of SmarTeam's PDM functionality within a seamlessly integrated environment. Enterprise Solutions The Enterprise Solutions family extends SmarTeam's capabilities beyond product design and engineering departments across the entire enterprise, including manufacturing, purchasing, marketing, and sales. Driving product information and business processes across multiple remote enterprise departments, SmarTeam leverages the company's core intellectual property to enhance overall efficiency and innovation. Engineers can use SmarTeam to manage their CAD data, marketing people can use it to access designs and specifications for creating proposals, and purchasing can tap into information about materials and purchased parts. The SmarTeam Enterprise Solutions include the following products: SmartFlow(R) gives you the power to streamline business processes by linking people, information and applications together. SmartFlow is a workflow automation See workflow. application providing control of engineering change processes, and expediting them by managing project workflow, tracking project status and automatically routing work from one stage to the next. SmartWeb(R) enables secure remote access to the SmarTeam project database from standard Internet browsers. With SmartWeb, users can perform advanced searches, quickly preview documents without actually opening the application that created them. No matter where they are, design team members can always have access to information and be involved in the product development and review process. SmartWeb is also an ideal application for corporate Intranets. SmartGateway(TM) is an Enterprise Application Integration (EAI (Enterprise Application Integration) Refers to various techniques used to share data and business processes in large enterprises. When companies acquire another organization, disparate information systems have to be made to work together. ) server, which manages the flow of information between SmarTeam and all enterprise applications, including resource planning Resource planning may refer to:
Smart Multi-site(TM) - an asynchronous Refers to events that are not synchronized, or coordinated, in time. The following are considered asynchronous operations. The interval between transmitting A and B is not the same as between B and C. The ability to initiate a transmission at either end. PDM solution designed for the distributed environment enabling dispersed team members to efficiently collaborate on product development across distributed organizations, maintaining data integrity and high performance at all sites. SmarTeam Hub Server - For installations with multiple SmarTeam server applications, the SmarTeam Hub Server is offered, which includes the SmartVault, SmartWeb, SmartFlow and SmartGateway server components. e-Supply Chain Solutions SmarTeam's e-Supply Chain solutions enable organizations to turn product designs and documents into universal formats, and collaborate on them with dispersed users across the Internet. Through innovative product information exchange solutions, SmarTeam facilitates effective and timely work with supplier networks and customers, as well as within the enterprise, dramatically reducing time-to-market. The SmarTeam e-Supply Chain Solutions include the following products: SmartBOM(TM) - A revolutionary, easy-to-use B2B solution, enabling electronic BOM creation and collaboration within the enterprise and across the supply chain, for efficient product life cycle management. SmartBOM streamlines the process related to the creation and change of the Bill of Materials The list of components that make up a system. For example, a bill of materials for a house would include the cement block, lumber, shingles, doors, windows, plumbing, electric, heating and so on. within the enterprise and throughout the supply chain in a secured and comprehensive manner. SmartBOM is a lightweight, XML-based, executable application that provides a simple, yet powerful mechanism for BOM information exchange between virtual teams. Based on SmartBriefcase technology, SmartBOM enables the extraction of a BOM, packages it with all relevant documents for transfer and input by supply chain partners, compares and consolidates multiple BOMs, and synchronizes them all back into the SmarTeam system. mySmarTeam(TM) - A collaborative product portal enabling an easy, secure and efficient collaboration on product/project data and process management within the extended enterprise and across the supply chain. mySmartPublish(TM) - An easy-to-use B2B Application Service Provision (ASP) solution enabling users to publish documents, drawings and other product files to a secure web page to share vital information and collaborate easily on product development. mySmartMeeting(TM) - A powerful real-time communication service allowing businesses to enhance collaboration and simplify communication by conducting on-line interactive meetings, and sharing information live over the Internet. With mySmartMeeting, you can collaborate on ANY desktop content (including drawings, Bill of Material and more), with anyone you choose in real-time, and get instant feedback from all participants. You can hold global design, engineering and change control board meetings on-line, while recording the entire process for follow-up and audit trail, and much more. SmarTeam products are fully object-oriented and are designed and built exclusively for the Windows environment (1) (upper case "W") Refers to computers running under a Microsoft Windows operating system. (2) (lower case "w") Also called a "windowing environment," it refers to any software that provides multiple windows on screen such as Windows, Mac, Motif and X Window. (Windows(R) 95/98/2000 and Windows NT) and Java platform. SmarTeam's philosophy is to achieve unparalleled performance and scalability using state of the art Windows based technologies. These include support for COM, DCOM (Distributed Component Object Model) Formerly Network OLE, it is Microsoft's technology for distributed objects. DCOM is based on COM, Microsoft's component software architecture, which defines the object interfaces. , SOAP, OLE and ActiveX, which facilitate easy integration with other OLE and Windows compatible applications and solutions, as well as Java Beans, XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. , HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. and HTTP, which facilitate building collaborative distributed environments. The client/server architecture supports most popular relational databases, including Oracle(R), Microsoft SQL Server A relational DBMS from Microsoft that is a major component of the Windows Server System. It is Microsoft's high-end client/server database and is closely integrated with Microsoft Visual Studio and the Microsoft Office System. , and Inprise(TM)'s InterBase. |
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