Dassault Systemes and Intergraph Corporation Announce Intention to Form Strategic Alliance for Shipbuilding.Business Editors DaratechMarine 2000 SURESNES, France and HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 25, 2000 Complementary strengths will provide next-generation integrated end-to-end solutions (jargon) end-to-end solution - (E2ES) A term that suggests that the supplier of an application program or system will provide all the hardware and/or software components and resouces to meet the customer's requirement and no other supplier need be involved. Compare: turn-key solution. 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. S.A. (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) and Intergraph Corporation (NASDAQ:INGR) today announced they intend to form a strategic alliance to provide integrated solutions to the global shipbuilding industries Noun 1. shipbuilding industry - an industry that builds ships industry - the people or companies engaged in a particular kind of commercial enterprise; "each industry has its own trade publications" shipbuilder - a business that builds and repairs ships . The companies plan to develop and offer a comprehensive set of shipbuilding applications covering ship engineering, manufacturing, maintenance and life cycle processes within a single, integrated environment. The alliance is aimed at more effectively meeting the end-to-end end-to-end a pattern of anastomosis in which severed ends are matched and united, in contrast with other patterns such as end-to-side or side-to-side. Usually applied to anastomosis of the intestine. global requirements of shipbuilders and ship owners. Recognized leaders in the global shipbuilding industry, both companies will offer the market the benefit of complementary, integrated solutions, expertise and specialization A career option pursued by some attorneys that entails the acquisition of detailed knowledge of, and proficiency in, a particular area of law. As the law in the United States becomes increasingly complex and covers a greater number of subjects, more and more attorneys are in their respective parts of the ship life cycle. Intergraph strengths include its data-centric engineering design applications and industry expertise as embodied em·bod·y tr.v. em·bod·ied, em·bod·y·ing, em·bod·ies 1. To give a bodily form to; incarnate. 2. To represent in bodily or material form: in its next-generation GSCAD (Global Shipbuilding Computer Aided Design (application) Computer Aided Design - (CAD) The part of CAE concerning the drawing or physical layout steps of engineering design. Often found in the phrase "CAD/CAM" for ".. manufacturing". ) software. Dassault Systemes strengths include its 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. shipbuilding applications, DENEB manufacturing and ENOVIA product life solutions as well as its new-generation V5 architecture. &uot;The Dassault Systemes and Intergraph relationship will build upon each company's complementary strengths and leadership in the marine market,&uot; said David Stinson, executive vice president, Process &Building Solutions, Intergraph. &uot;We expect the benefits provided to shipbuilders and ship owners alike by Intergraph and Dassault Systemes together will be far greater than either company could provide by itself.&uot; Dominique Florack, executive vice president Research &Development, Dassault Systemes, said, &uot;Dassault Systemes and Intergraph have an incredible opportunity to combine and seamlessly integrate their respective differentiating applications and technologies. This alliance enables us to offer a unique and comprehensive solution to meet customers' 'end-to-end' needs in shipbuilding and operations processes.&uot; Torben Andersen, chairman, Global Research and Development Company, Inc. (GRAD), a joint venture consortium of major international shipbuilders, said, &uot;GRAD welcomes the announcement that Dassault Systemes and Intergraph intend to form an alliance to develop a next generation CAD/CAM CAD/CAM in full computer-aided design/computer-aided manufacturing. Integration of design and manufacturing into a system under direct control of digital computers. solution for shipbuilding. This fulfills our hopes that combined strengths of these two excellent companies will provide the best possible results to satisfy the joint GRAD vision of &uot;best practice&uot; for shipbuilding worldwide.&uot; Based in Hampton, Va., GRAD shares know-how and risk and cooperates with selected technology providers to define requirements and accelerate the availability of next generation solutions for engineering, manufacturing and associated shipbuilding business processes. Announcement Made at DaratechMarine 2000 Intergraph Process &Building Solutions and Dassault Systemes jointly made the announcement at the DaratechMarine 2000 Conference. Engineering and marine IT executives, naval architects naval architect n. One who designs ships. , marine and ship manufacturing engineers The profession of manufacturing engineer is defined as a person having the education and experience to understand and control manufacturing systems such as processes and/or automation, including industrial processes and equipment used to produce goods. and major vendors from the worldwide marine and offshore industries are participating in the event. The conference, which continues here through Jan. 26 at the Wyndham Greenspoint Hotel, includes technology exhibits and a variety of sessions on the latest developments in Web/IT-based strategies for ship and offshore platform design, production and maintenance. Intergraph Process &Building Solutions (www.intergraph.com/pbs) is a global organization that supplies software and services to the marine, process and power industries. Building on more than 20 years' industry experience as an engineering software provider, Process &Building Solutions focuses on data-centric integrated life cycle solutions for the design and information management of ships and plants-with emphasis on linking engineering systems with business systems. A division of Intergraph Corporation, Process &Building Solutions has more than 1,000 employees in 63 countries worldwide. The division's next-generation shipbuilding software, referred to as GSCAD (Global Shipbuilding Computer Aided Design), is an integrated approach to ship design, construction and life cycle management. GSCAD design, planning and engineering analysis tools are built on an enterprisewide, integrated infrastructure that accesses real-time 1. real-time - Describes an application which requires a program to respond to stimuli within some small upper limit of response time (typically milli- or microseconds). Process control at a chemical plant is the classic example. information for smart business decisions. GSCAD technology allows dramatic reductions in the cost and time to design and build ships. These efficiencies are best achieved through a Smart Product Model, which integrates engineering disciplines to increase productivity and design optimization See automatic design optimization. throughout the ship life cycle. Intergraph Corporation is a worldwide provider of technical solutions and systems integration. Its vertically focused business units develop, market and support software and services for local and national governments and for the following vertical industries: transportation, utilities, communications, process, marine and public safety. Other business units deliver software, hardware and services across multiple industries. Built on 30 years of technology innovation, Intergraph is consistently ranked by industry analysts as a leading vendor in the global markets it serves. Intergraph common stock trades on The NASDAQ Stock Market Nasdaq stock market The first electronic stock market listing over 5000 companies. The Nasdaq stock market comprises two separate markets, namely the Nasdaq National Market, which trades large, active securities and the Nasdaq Smallcap Market that trades emerging growth companies. under the symbol: INGR. Visit www.intergraph.com for more information. Dassault Systemes S.A. is the premier global software developer for the CAD/CAM/CAE/PDM II 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 DENEB 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, as part of the CATIA portfolio CATIA Digital Plant Solutions are solutions tailored to support the plant industry. DENEB provides solutions to define and simulate simulate - simulation 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 Pipeline, supporting re-use of corporate knowledge. SolidWorks and SmartSolutions, as Dassault Systemes companies, offer respectively 3D design-centric and TeamPDM software solutions based on Windows. In 1998, Dassault Systemes introduced a new generation application architecture for all its products called &uot;Version 5&uot;. This architecture is object-oriented and based on components supporting, and anticipating the emergence of new technologies such as CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture) A software-based interface from the Object Management Group (OMG) that allows software modules (objects) to communicate with each other no matter where they are located on a private network or the global , JAVA, OLE and Web to develop multi-tier and web based Coming from a Web server. See Web application. applications. &uot;V5&uot; is now the basis for the new generation CATIA, DENEB and ENOVIA as well as for partner applications. As such, V5 enables to support customers' e-Product life cycle. Information on Dassault Systemes is available at the following address: www.dsweb.com. Information on CATIA-CADAM Solutions is available on the CATIA home page at the following address: www.catia.com. CATIA and ENOVIA are registered trademarks of Dassault Systemes S.A. Intergraph and the Intergraph logo are registered trademarks of Intergraph Corporation. Other brands and product names are trademarks of their respective owners. |
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