IBM, Dassault Systemes and RAND Worldwide Join Forces to Expand Product Lifecycle Management.Business Editors PARIS Paris, in Greek mythology Paris or Alexander, in Greek mythology, son of Priam and Hecuba and brother of Hector. Because it was prophesied that he would cause the destruction of Troy, Paris was abandoned on Mt. & MISSISSAUGA, Canada--(BUSINESS WIRE) April 15, 2002 - 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) , 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: 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 RAND Worldwide(TM) (TSE See Tokyo Stock Exchange. TSE 1. See Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE). 2. See Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE). : RAND) today announced an agreement to significantly expand worldwide marketing, sales, and services for 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 solutions from IBM and Dassault Systemes including 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. , DELMIA DELMIA Digital Enterprise Lean Manufacturing Interactive Application , ENOVIA, and SMARTEAM. Under the agreement, RAND Worldwide becomes an IBM premier Business Partner, a DELMIA Business Partner, and a Dassault Systemes CAA Caa See CCC. V5 partner for complementary application development. RAND Worldwide is the global leader in providing knowledge-based solutions to the engineering community. As part of this initiative, RAND Worldwide, Dassault Systemes and IBM will jointly invest in integrating RAND offerings with the IBM-Dassault Systemes 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, and RAND Worldwide will further expand and focus its global business on providing world-class technical education and professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. around PLM solutions from Dassault Systemes and IBM. In addition, ENGINEERING.com (CDNX CDNX See Canadian Venture Exchange (CDNX). : EGN EGN External Gateway Network (WorldCom) EGN East Gate News EGN European Games Network ), partially owned by RAND Worldwide, becomes an IBM e-Business Solution Partner. ENGINEERING.com, a unique resource built on IBM Websphere technology and hosted at IBM facilities, will provide state-of-the-art e-business solutions and collaborative services to address the professional requirements of the global engineering community As an IBM premier Business Partner, RAND Worldwide will now provide customers with integrated IBM solutions, including IBM PLM software and IBM servers, workstations and middleware. In addition, RAND Worldwide and IBM Global Services IBM Global Services is the world's largest business and technology services provider. It is the fastest growing part of IBM, with over 190,000 professionals serving customers in more than 160 countries. (IGS IGS - Internet Go Server. ) will collaborate on a range of services to deliver PLM solutions to a wide variety of customers worldwide, including consulting, solution design and implementation, training, and change management. These agreements will enable manufacturing companies, regardless of size, to leverage the most advanced product design and development technologies. IBM-Dassault Systemes PLM solutions, with core applications for product design, engineering and development from Dassault Systemes, help manufacturers of all types innovate, improve quality, and reduce both costs and product development times. They also help companies collaborate internally, across geographic boundaries and with suppliers. "Over the years, RAND has demonstrated an unyielding commitment to design and engineering within the manufacturing industries manufacturing industries npl → industrias fpl manufactureras manufacturing industries npl → industries fpl de transformation . Today, we share the same assessment that 3D PLM is the next stage in exploiting the digital world for product lifecycle management," said Bernard Charles Bernard Charles is the CEO of Dassault Systemes. References
"This agreement gives us the opportunity to address a wider customer base across all segments of the discrete manufacturing Fabricating products by assembling components and subsystems into larger systems. The automated assembly line is the prime example of discrete manufacturing such as in the making of automobiles, household appliances and computer systems. market with a partner known for its superior technical knowledge and customer focus and who shares our PLM vision and strategy," said Ed Petrozelli, general manager, IBM Product Lifecycle Management Solutions. "Customers who have worked with RAND Worldwide value their strong process and technical knowledge. These customers now have the opportunity to build additional business value through the deployment of IBM PLM solutions." "I am extremely pleased that, in making these investments and expanding our partnership, these two world class organizations have recognized our own leadership position. We will work closely with IGS to further strengthen the preeminent PLM system integration capability in the world," said Brian Semkiw, Co-founder, Chief Executive Officer of RAND Worldwide and Co-founder, Chairman of ENGINEERING.com. "This partnership is bringing us closer to achieving our goal of becoming the leading engineering systems integrator in the world. I also believe that Dassault Systemes and IBM will be the PLM leaders for years to come because their strategy makes sense and it will make manufacturers become more innovative, efficient and profitable." Added Frank Baldesarra, Co-founder and President of RAND Worldwide and Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of ENGINEERING.com, Inc., "I am very pleased that the five-year relationship we have developed with these two companies has culminated in such a significant mutual endeavor and partnership. The real benefit will be to our customers, for whom we will be helping to provide a powerful 3D PLM solution that includes an effective blend of software, hardware, and services, based upon a driving vision and a strong understanding of their business needs. Further, I am particularly heartened by the passion that both Dassault Systemes and IBM have demonstrated in supporting the engineering profession - which is, in my view, the most important profession in the world. " The agreement includes financial assistance from Dassault Systemes to RAND Worldwide to accelerate the development of marketing, sales and services infrastructure required to support 3D PLM. The Dassault Systemes financing is based on a 10-year convertible loan of U.S. $25 million whereby half may be converted to common shares in RAND Worldwide at RAND's discretion and the other half may be converted at Dassault Systemes discretion. Under the terms of this financing, Dassault Systemes' equity position in RAND Worldwide will represent less than 20 percent of the shares outstanding. Terms of the IBM investment are undisclosed. About RAND WORLDWIDE RAND Worldwide is the world's leading independent provider of solutions to engineering organizations with design and information technology requirements. The Company offers an exceptional range of computer-aided-design, -manufacturing, -engineering (CAD/CAM/CAE) and related information technologies, as well as technical education and consultative support, hardware and integration services. RAND Worldwide provides innovative technology and services solutions that help companies become more competitive and profitable by reducing their product development costs, improving product quality and shortening the time needed to bring new products to market. As the world's only independent global engineering technology provider, RAND Worldwide employs more than 1,300 people in over 100 international sales and client service centres in 26 countries. The Company's corporate head office in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada can be reached at 905-625-2000 or through the Internet at http://www.rand.com/ About ENGINEERING.com ENGINEERING.com Incorporated (CDNX: EGN) is the developer-owner of the www.engineering.com Web site and Internet-based software and business, being developed to become the ultimate resource tool for the global engineering community and to provide a leading business-to-business Internet marketplace for engineering products and services. The ENGINEERING.com Incorporated head office is located in Woodbridge, Ontario, Canada and can be reached toll-free at 1-877-997-9917, by facsimile at (905) 264-0282, or through the Internet at http://www.engineering.com. 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 Dassault Systemes 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 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 Corp., as Dassault Systemes companies, offer respectively 3D design-centric and 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 software solutions based on Windows and the Internet. Spatial, also part of the 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 3D PLM Dassault Systemes is the premier global 3D PLM solutions provider. 3D PLM enables customers to optimize their business Processes for Engineering, Manufacturing, Maintenance & Support, using Collaborative Workspaces to share a common product, process and resource model (PPR PPR peste des petitis ruminants. ). With PPR, companies can capture, share and reuse Knowledge all along the Product lifecycle. The open CAA V5 (Component Application Architecture) allows extension and integration of this solution within multiple enterprise environments. |
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