IBM Global Services Becomes Dassault Systemes Premier Product Lifecycle Management -PLM- Consulting Partner.Business Editors & High Tech Writers SOMERS, N.Y. & PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 23, 2002 Will deliver global 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 to Manufacturing Industries manufacturing industries npl → industrias fpl manufactureras manufacturing industries npl → industries fpl de transformation , Based on a Unique Combination of 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) Services and 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. 3d PLM Solutions Dassault Systemes (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 today announced that 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. has become a Dassault Systemes Premier Consulting Partner. This agreement strengthens a 20-year relationship and reflects a long-held recognition on the part of the world's largest information technology services organization that PLM represents a rapidly developing market opportunity due to its key importance for all manufacturing industries. As a consequence, both companies will be in a position to deliver more complete PLM solutions combining IBM PLM Services expertise and offerings, and Dassault Systemes' 3d PLM solutions 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. , ENOVIA and SmarTeam. Part of IBM's Business Innovation Services unit, the IBM PLM Services practice offers end-to-end transformation services. This spans a range of services from PLM strategy through the design, production and processes for life cycle support of products. The practice includes a worldwide team of PLM experts, such as consultants, architects, solution and system integration specialists and project managers. IBM's PLM offerings are based in part on proven methods and the solid experience IBM has developed from its rich base of real world services engagements. This experience spans across a variety of customers, all leaders in their fields, and addresses the demands of competing in industries based on highly engineered products and related services. IBM and Dassault Systemes have a distinguished track record of successful customer engagements based on Dassault Systemes solutions in a variety of industries. "In today's intensely competitive global environment, our customers continue to look for strategic themes that can provide them with the critical edge," said Harsh Manglik, worldwide vice president, 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, IBM Global Services. "PLM is one of the most fundamental themes on which customers are basing their competitive transformation for the future. We provide our customers with the ability to develop strategic frameworks and rapidly convert them into operational reality. This is based on IBM's experience in business transformation and information technology. When it comes to PLM services, we believe IBM is best in class." Etienne Droit [French, Justice, right, law.] A term denoting the abstract concept of law or a right. Droit is as variable a phrase as the English right or the Latin jus. It signifies the entire body of law or a right in terms of a duty or obligation. , executive vice president of Dassault Systemes, said, "IBM has consistently offered the innovative expertise needed to support our customers in deploying mission critical e-business offerings such as our 3d Product Lifecycle Management Solutions. This agreement will allow our customers to benefit from an even more complete services portfolio to accelerate returns on innovation brought by Dassault Systemes' solutions". 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 IBM Global Services IBM Global Services is the world's largest information technology services provider, with nearly 150,000 professionals serving customers in 160 countries and annual revenue of more than $33 billion (2000). IBM Global Services integrates IBM's broad range of capabilities - services, hardware, software and research to help companies of all sizes realize the full value of information technology. For more information, visit: www.ibm.com/services. About Dassault Systemes 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 TeamPDM software solutions based on Windows. 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 The capability of two or more hardware devices or two or more software routines to work harmoniously together. For example, in an Ethernet network, display adapters, hubs, switches and routers from different vendors must conform to the Ethernet standard and interoperate with each other. ) 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 |
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