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IBM Adds New Dassault Systemes V6 Offering to Product Lifecycle Management

Posted on: Friday, 1 February 2008, 15:00 CST

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced support for Dassault Systemes' (NASDAQ: DASTY) new product lifecycle management (PLM) V6 offering. This new version provides the basis for future PLM applications designed to improve productivity across enterprises and help shorten time-to-market for products.

The V6 platform will ease use of PLM applications across multi-disciplinary engineering and business groups. Based on a single, open and scalable service-oriented architecture (SOA), the V6 platform allows global teams to collaborate on the development of a new product line including product specifications, design and development.

V6 delivers an on-line, web-connected environment that gives users a 3-D, real-life preview of new products before they undergo manufacturing. Dassault Systemes' new platform is based on MatrixOne technology and a suite of integrated applications that cover a wide range of PLM processes -- including product planning and development, materials sourcing and compliance and program management.

In addition to complementing IBM's SOA foundation, V6 runs on IBM's WebSphere, Information Management, Rational, Tivoli and Lotus software. Dassault Systemes and IBM share a commitment to SOA as a cost-effective approach in deploying repeatable, industry-specific solutions.

Product designers and engineers who need to address issues immediately using instant messaging and web conferencing tools can integrate Lotus Sametime with Dassault Systemes 3DLive, a 3-D offering solution used to search, communicate, and collaborate on product data.

"We are pleased to extend our long-standing relationship with Dassault Systemes to give clients a flexible set of PLM offerings," said Albert Bunshaft, vice president, IBM Product Lifecycle Management. "With V6, Dassault Systemes is recognizing the need for continuous collaboration and information sharing to support products at any point in their lifecycle."

3DLive for V6 is available today from IBM. Later this year, IBM will sell and support Dassault Systemes' V6 PLM offerings including CATIA, a product definition and simulation offering; ENOVIA, the foundation for V6's PLM platform for cross-industry, business processes; and DELMIA, a digital manufacturing process environment used to optimize production systems and processes.

Clients who want to integrate PLM applications into other enterprise systems and across their PLM value chain have access to a global network of IBM software and services experts through IBM's PLM Centers of Excellence. They can also tap into IBM-specific experts at Dassault Systemes International Competency Center (IDSICC) headquartered in Suresnes, France.

For more information about IBM please visit www.ibm.com and www.ibm.com/solutions/plm.

For Dassault Systemes please visit http://www.3ds.com.

IBM WebSphere, Information Management (DB2), Rational, Tivoli and Lotus are trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation in the United States, other countries or both.

CATIA, DELMIA, ENOVIA, SIMULIA, SolidWorks and 3D VIA are registered trademarks of Dassault Systemes or its subsidiaries in the US and/or other countries.

 Contact: Elena Fernandez IBM Software Group 617-693-1606 elena_fernandez@us.ibm.com

SOURCE: IBM

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