IBM and SMARTEAM Accelerate Collaborative PDM Strategy to Meet Growing Market Demand.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. & KFAR SABA Kfar Saba (Hebrew: כפר סבא) ("Grandfather's Village" or Saba's Village"), also Kefar Sava, is a city in the Sharon area, Center District of Israel in Israel. , Israel--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 11, 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) and Their Business Partners Become a Leading SMARTEAM Sales Channel Worldwide IBM and SMARTEAM Corporation, a 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) company, today announced that they are enhancing their joint go-to-market strategy and accelerating sales, marketing and support activities through IBM's 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 (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 ) business unit. As the partnership between both companies gains increased momentum, they are doubling their resources to address growing market demand for SMARTEAM Solutions. The result of IBM and their Business Partners becoming a leading SMARTEAM sales channel worldwide will reflect on customers whose needs will be addressed ever more effectively. SMARTEAM Solutions, a core element of the IBM and Dassault Systemes PLM portfolio, provides customers with rapidly-implemented, totally customizable, and easy-to-use Windows and Web-centric 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 solutions, that effectively enable collaboration between their teams, and throughout their extended enterprises and supply chains. The expansion of IBM and Dassault Systemes' strategy towards collaborative PLM solutions drives the integration of SMARTEAM into the IBM and Dassault Systemes product portfolio as well as leveraging the PLM sales, marketing, consulting and support operations. As part of 3D PLM solutions, SMARTEAM will further leverage the V5 architecture contributing to deliver comprehensive solutions with ENOVIA and increased levels of integration with the 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. product portfolio. Herve Rolland, vice president Collaborative Solutions, IBM Product Lifecycle Management, said, "As manufacturers focus on technologies to improve their product development, industry analysts report that the product lifecycle collaboration solutions market is growing at rates beyond 30% annually, making this one of the fastest growing segments in the industry. The need for comprehensive solutions continues to grow, leading us to expand our SMARTEAM-focused teams within IBM's PLM group in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , Europe, Asia and the Middle East. Together, SMARTEAM and IBM respond to our customers' three primary needs: consistency across processes, strong reactivity (time savings) and flexibility both internally and with an extended supply chain." "Reinforcing our collaboration with IBM is a significant step in our open multi-channel, multi-CAD strategy to bring the benefits of rapidly implementable, collaborative PDM solutions to broader markets. The full range of SMARTEAM solutions will further enable our customers to innovate, shorten time to market, reduce manufacturing costs and improve product value," said SMARTEAM chief executive officer, Avinoam Nowogrodski. "These are the key strategic components that set our partnership apart from the competition and that make our collaborative solutions the most competitive on the market." 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 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 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 Corp., as Dassault Systemes companies, offer respectively 3D design-centric and collaborative PDM 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 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 www.dsweb.com About SMARTEAM SMARTEAM, a Dassault Systemes S.A. company, (NASDAQ: DASTY; Euronext Paris: #13065, DSY.PA) develops, markets and supports rapidly-implemented, yet totally customizable, product lifecycle collaboration solutions that drive efficiency, quality and responsiveness for customer centric organizations and their value chains. Founded in 1995, SMARTEAM is one of the fastest-growing companies in the PLM market with over 2,000 customers worldwide, and a broad solutions portfolio that enables manufacturing organizations and their supply chains to efficiently manage and collaborate on product information from concept through realization. SMARTEAM's solutions help companies gain improvements in product quality, reduce costs, expedite project turnaround, comply with industry standards and shorten time-to-market. For additional information, please go to: www.smarteam.com. |
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