IBM and Dassault Systemes Introduce New Release of ENOVIA Portal to Enhance the Collaborative Product Development Process.Business & High-Tech Editors MARNE-LA-VALLEE, France--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 8, 2000 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) 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. (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, Bourse bourse (b  rs), term applied to a European stock exchange. The first international bourse was established in Antwerp in the 16th cent. de Paris) announced today the introduction of ENOVIA Portal Solutions Version 5 Release 5 (V5R5), a set of e-business solutions for Product Lifecycle Management (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 ). The many enhancements and three new products in ENOVIA Portal V5R5 further support collaborative product development Collaborative Product Development (Collaborative Product Design) (CPD) is a business strategy, work process and collection of software applications that facilitates different organizations to work together on the development of a product. among designers, engineers and other professionals throughout the extended enterprise. ENOVIA Portal V5R5 provides a unique and easy access to all product data, including geometry, 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 , legacy, PPR PPR peste des petitis ruminants. (Product Process Resource) and web-based information. It enables all members of the extended enterprise to collaborate in the product life cycle, using powerful display and manipulation functions, therefore shortening design time and increasing product innovation. ENOVIA Portal V5R5 is an integral part of the ENOVIA Portfolio, a core IBM PLM solution that cooperates with supply chain, customer relationship and enterprise resource management systems to help companies of all sizes increase innovation, optimize product lifecycle costs, and address new markets with evolving business models. ENOVIA Portal V5R5 supports multi-source engineering design and manufacturing data, including information from 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 , IDEAS, Pro/Engineer, Unigraphics and -- new in this release -- SolidWorks, SolidEdge, Parasolid and ACIS. Based on Dassault Systemes' Version 5 architecture, ENOVIA Portal V5R5 consists of two families of products: ENOVIA 3d com Navigator for Web-based collaboration and ENOVIA DMU (Digital MockUp) The combination of geometry data from multiple CAD systems rendered and manipulated as a sub-assembly, assembly and/or product. DMU - Data Management Unit Data Manipulation Unit Data Multiplexer Unit Navigator for advanced product modeling and analysis. Together, they optimize development processes and support recognized industry best practices for product development. Ken Versprille, research director, D.H. Brown Associates Inc, said, "The enhanced ENOVIA Portal family provides both flexibility and scalability to companies expanding their reach outward with enterprise-wide e-business ventures across the value chain. The Portal's visualization of multi-CAD data, product structure, synthesis, and simulation, together with integration into the ENOVIA family of PLM solutions, empowers collaboration and global product development -- all reachable from a high performance Windows desktop or a simple browser window." Martin Jetter, general manager, IBM Product Lifecycle Management, said, "The enhancements and new products in ENOVIA Portal Version 5 Release 5 open up new opportunities for customers to focus on innovation as a competitive weapon. Everyone who uses and exploits product data across a company's extended enterprise will find benefit in the new Portal capabilities." Commented Joel Lemke, chief executive officer of ENOVIA Corp., "ENOVIA Portal Solutions V5R5 reconfirms ENOVIA's commitment to deliver open, extendable and standards-based e-collaboration solutions. V5R5 extends its capability to integrate a wider selection of available industry CAx data into a unified web-centric, 3d e-business process." IBM's PLM business unit and IBM Business Partners worldwide market, sell and support ENOVIA Portal Solutions. IBM and Dassault Systemes announced the introduction of ENOVIA Portal V5R5 on the eve On the Eve (Накануне in Russian) is the third novel by famous Russian writer Ivan Turgenev, best known for his short stories and the novel Fathers and Sons. of the fourth annual European CATIA Forum (ECF (Enhanced Connectivity Facilities) IBM software that allows DOS PCs to query and download data from mainframes and issue mainframe commands. It also allows printer output to be directed from the PC to the mainframe. ) at Disneyland Paris. ECF, organized jointly by the two companies, is a three-day conference and exhibition that focuses on information-sharing among users of CATIA, ENOVIA and DELMIA solutions. More than 2000 attendees are expected at this year's Forum. 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 (NASDAQ:DASTY and Bourse de Paris) is the premier global software developer of Product Lifecycle Management solutions, 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, ENOVIA delivers enterprise solutions that manage a comprehensive, collaborative and distributed model of the digital product, processes and resources and DELMIA provides solutions to define and simulate lean digital manufacturing processes. The combined integration creates the Digital Product life cycle Pipeline, supporting reuse of corporate knowledge. SolidWorks and SmartSolutions, as Dassault Systemes companies, offer respectively 3D design-centric and TeamPDM software solutions based on Windows. Information about Dassault Systemes is available at http://www.dsweb.com. IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation. ENOVIA(TM) is owned by Dassault Systemes and used under license. |
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