ENOVIA Corp. Announces IBM Corporation Adds Seventh Location To Its Worldwide Implementation of ENOVIA Solutions.

CHARLOTTE, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 5, 1999--ENOVIA Corp. announces that its ENOVIApm software application suite has been fully implemented in production use by IBM at one of its largest laboratory and manufacturing sites in Burlington, Vermont.

As part of a worldwide implementation, IBM is now in production with ENOVIA Solutions at seven sites, including Raleigh (NC), Endicott and East Fishkill (NY), Burlington (VT), Austin (TX), Bromont (Canada) and Yamato (Japan), with more to follow by year end. During IBM's deployment to the initial seven locations, approximately 100 million design records were loaded into the ENOVIA database. Later this year a central ENOVIA installation will be a corporate repository for all engineering changes, items, product and bill of material data. The 3,300 current IBM users will expand to more than 5,000 this year.

"ENOVIApm is a strategic application within IBM's Integrated Product Development process re-engineering project. Design, manufacturing, commodity and cost engineers, product planners, procurement and others are integrated into the release process electronically," said Johnny Barnes, director of hardware common tools for IBM. "ENOVIApm is playing a significant role in helping us reduce the normal 40 to 60 steps needed to release a product to 15 steps or less. We expect to cut the time we are spending in recreating and interpreting engineering data by 50 percent or more." Barnes adds: "We are already seeing benefits that amount to millions of dollars a year in increased productivity and reductions in I/T, scrap and rework costs. We are also recognizing much more value from accurate engineering information being leveraged downstream in manufacturing."

Joel Lemke, ENOVIA, chief executive officer, comments that"IBM's multi-site deployment is a validation of ENOVIA's architecture for managing development projects spanning many design and manufacturing locations. IBM's successful deployment is proof that ENOVIA's technology can efficiently support global engineering and manufacturing enterprises."

ENOVIA Solutions help companies increase product innovation while simultaneously managing the huge amounts of data generated in the development process by collaborating teams that are often located at multiple locations. These solutions are part of a framework called Product Development Management II (PDM II).

Under the PDM II concept, companies are able to optimize how products are conceived, designed and built. Implementing this concept with ENOVIA Solutions means every aspect of a product is defined in an easy-to-access, all-digital format. This enables different design, development and manufacturing disciplines to access data sooner, collaborate easier and faster and improve quality, reduce costs and bring better, more profitable products to market quicker.

ENOVIA Corp. was founded in 1998 as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Dassault Systemes. The company, based in Charlotte, NC, develops PDM II Solutions that manage a consistent, comprehensive, and distributed model of the product and the associated processes and resources to support concurrent product optimization across the entire product life cycle. ENOVIA Corp. provides people with graphical tools in an innovative environment to work together in the extended enterprise and share and capitalize on product, process and resource knowledge. ENOVIA Solutions are developed by ENOVIA Corp. and marketed and sold worldwide by IBM Corporation.

Product Development Management (PDM II) is defined by leading consultants as encompassing two domains - Virtual Product Development Management (VPDM), and Product Data Management (PDM). Responding to the new PDM II market opportunity, IBM and Dassault Systemes announced in February 1998 a new strategic alliance where Dassault Systemes launched a new wholly-owned company, ENOVIA Corp, located in Charlotte, NC to develop integrated PDM II solutions, respectively named ENOVIApm and ENOVIAvpm. The first solution -- ENOVIAvpm (virtual product model) -- facilitates innovation to create better products by helping define, configure and optimize product definition and manufacturing processes. The second solution -- ENOVIApm -- helps manage product data and documents better. IBM created two new worldwide organizations -- one to market and sell these PDM II products; and the other to provide business transformation, consulting and implementation services. Dassault Systemes also acquired IBM's Product Data Management solution (ProductManager), renamed to ENOVIApm. IBM and Dassault Systemes consider that the ENOVIAvpm and ENOVIApm suites can help small, medium and large companies expand their product portfolio and market share.

Dassault Systemes S.A. is a leading software developer for the CAD/CAM/CAE/PDM II market providing users with solutions for their product development needs. CATIA-CADAM and DENEB Solutions enable total simulation of the creation of a product. SolidWorks, a wholly-owned subsidiary, offers design-oriented software solutions based on Windows. With Java-based CATweb e- business tools, everyone can exploit engineering data over the Web. ENOVIA PDM II Solutions deliver a new multi-CAD collaborative and innovative environment for the virtual product and process modeling and management across the extended enterprise. The customer base comprises over 13,000 CATIA-CADAM and 9,500 SolidWorks customers.

Additional information about PDM II and ENOVIA products can be found at: http://www.enovia.com or http://www.ibm.com/mfg/

CATIA is a registered trademark of Dassault Systemes SA. ENOVIA, CATweb are owned by Dassault Systemes SA.