Dassault Systemes and Oce Announce a CAA V5 Development Partnership Agreement; Integration of Oce Engineering Exec into the CATIA V5 Environment.

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PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 9, 2001

Oce Technologies BV (Nasdaq: OCENY, Amsterdam Exchanges) and Dassault Systemes (Nasdaq: DASTY, Bourse de Paris) announced today the signing of a Component Application Architecture (CAA) V5 development partnership. The purpose of this agreement is the integration of Oce printing applications in the CATIA V5 environment. This will enable the integration of customers' critical processes - from design up to printing and plotting - into a single environment.

Manufacturing and engineering companies worldwide focus on cost-effective management of their printing processes on an enterprise-wide basis. Today's market demands effective and centralized control of output devices of all different types, wherever they are located in the organization.

Amongst a wide range of functionalities, CATIA V5 offers standard printing possibilities on UNIX and NT environments. Most of the current graphic standards for printing are natively supported within CATIA V5, whose printing capabilities have been validated for major plotters and printers.

Via this CAA V5 development partnership, Dassault Systemes and Oce give CATIA V5 users comprehensive and seamless access to all available document printing and distribution resources, regardless of the device types and where they are located. This saves time and cost, and promotes efficient, enterprise-wide information sharing within the organisation. Maximum return on investment is ensured by enabling use to be made of all the available printing functionalities throughout the enterprise.

Oce Print Exec On CAA V5(TM) ensures simple, transparent operation. Users have direct, seamless access to the advanced print management functions from within the CATIA V5 environment. These include selecting, defining and previewing their print jobs and managing all the output parameters, whatever the selected output device is. Integrating accounting functions, Oce Print Exec On CAA V5(TM) provides full visibility of all printing-related costs, assigned to users, departments or projects according to their exact usage. With this capability, companies will optimise their printing cost control, which used to be quite unclear.

"This development partnership with Dassault Systemes will enable us to take a significant step forward in bringing the benefits of our printing and document solutions to the CATIA users community worldwide", said Michel Frequin, Executive Director of Oce's Strategic Business Unit Wide Format Printing Systems. "This will allow users to better manage their CATIA V5 printing environment and leverage all their printing assets on an enterprise-wide basis. At the same time it implements our strategy of offering users maximum support for their key business processes through the application of our engineering systems and software solutions."

"Oce has joined our CAA V5 community, extending the CATIA V5 printing and document management capabilities", said Bruno Latchague, Executive VP R&D of Dassault Systems. "The tight integration of Oce's recognized technologies in the CATIA V5 environment is highly beneficial to our common customers, who consider the printing and document management process as essential within their organization. Through this CAA V5 development partnership, the Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) strategy of Dassault Systemes will benefit from the extensive experience of Oce in this field, allowing CATIA users to benefit from a comprehensive and innovative product portfolio."

The CAA V5 development partnership program is dedicated to companies sharing the Dassault Systemes goal of supporting and continuously improving customers' business processes by delivering a consistent product portfolio. Dassault Systemes partners benefit from the next-generation V5 Component Application Architecture as well as advanced technical and marketing support to develop, market and sell innovative products based on CAA V5 and de facto seamlessly operating with CATIA V5. In order to ensure timely and compatible product releases, Dassault Systemes provides its partners with a unique and privileged access to early development code. Each integration release is tested to certify its high quality and compliance with CAA V5 standards to better serve the needs of mutual customers.

Oce Technologies BV enables people to share information by offering products and services for the reproduction, presentation, distribution and management of documents.With headquarters in the Netherlands, the Oce Group is active in approximately 80 countries, with subsidiaries in some 30 countries. Oce employs 22,000 people worldwide. Annual revenue in 1999 exceeded US $3 billion.

Dassault Systemes (NASDAQ:DASTY, Bourse de Paris) is the premier global software developer of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, providing companies with e-business solutions to implement their digital enterprise, thus creating and simulating the entire product lifecycle from initial concept to product in service. CATIA, DELMIA and ENOVIA 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 lifecycle Pipeline, supporting reuse of corporate knowledge. SolidWorks and Smart Solutions, as Dassault Systemes companies, offer respectively 3D design-centric and TeamPDM software solutions based on Windows.

Information about Oce Technologies BV is available at http://www.oce.com Information about Dassault Systemes is available at http://www.dsweb.com

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