Expands Support for Dassault Systèmes Software Offerings to Meet Growing Demand for PLM

ARMONK, NY–(EMWNews – July 29, 2008) – IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced it will

significantly increase product lifecycle management (PLM) resources by

offering clients access to nearly 3,000 PLM practitioners across its

software, services, research and development divisions.

Companies continue to aggressively invest in areas such as new product

development. To help clients speed up new product introductions, IBM has

intensified its PLM resources to include:

--  Ten Global PLM Centers of Excellence.

--  A Dassault Systèmes and IBM focused International Competency Center.

--  A team of more than 2,000 PLM service consultants and technology

    experts.

--  A group of 60 PLM industry experts as part of IBM's research and

    development organization.

    

IBM is also deepening its commitment to sell and support Dassault Systèmes

(NASDAQ: DASTY) (Euronext Paris: #13065, DSY.PA) PLM software offerings

with the new V6 platform, which will help address a company’s PLM business

process challenges of global product development and manufacturing as

follows:

--  Global Collaborative Innovation - ENOVIA provides an integrated

    platform for the management of a product lifecycle and its related business

    processes.  PLM business processes include among many compliance and

    governance, global sourcing, and management of a product's intellectual

    property. The V6 platform also incorporates 3DLive, a 3-D environment to

    search, communicate and collaborate on product and manufacturing data over

    the Internet.

    

--  Virtual Product Design - CATIA is a product definition and simulation

    offering that includes elements of a product's system architecture.  This

    architecture outlines the structure and behavior of a product including

    physical concepts, detailed mechanical shapes,  and product behavior

    components.  Using advanced simulation techniques, these components are

    tested to help predict product behavior and optimize product design.

    

--  Digital Manufacturing and Production - DELMIA provides a process

    development and simulation environment to help maximize manufacturing

    production systems.  From 3D processes and resource planning solutions to

    virtual programs to help better assign manufacturing resources using

    virtual design tools, DELMIA helps companies deliver customized, lean

    manufacturing systems.

    

--  3D Virtual Product Documentation - 3DVIA includes web-enabled

    offerings such as 3Dvia Composer, for use in the definition of 3D annotated

    content for technical publications, manuals and work instructions.  This

    content can be delivered as part of web-based applications or traditional,

    document-centric applications.

    

“As a company that develops products across multiple geographical regions,

we seek to combine our collaborative development process, bill of materials

requirements and digitally designed models into one platform that is easy

to use and access,” said Rick Sturgeon, executive director, Global

Engineering Operations, for the Automotive Experience business of Johnson

Controls, Inc.

“In evaluating the Dassault Systèmes’ V6 portfolio, we see the promise of a

platform based on a much improved user interface and ease-of-use,” added

Sturgeon.

“Clients can bet on IBM’s expertise to help them integrate PLM

applications into existing technology investments while ensuring that

products will be delivered on time,” said Albert Bunshaft, vice president,

IBM Product Lifecycle Management.

The Future of PLM

IBM predicts the PLM segment will expand beyond the focus on engineering

software

to a multi-disciplinary enterprise practice integrating the following

technology components:

A Common Platform: A traditional PLM environment typically includes

anywhere from twenty to forty applications from authoring and simulation to

business applications such as enterprise resource planning tools. Today’s

product development process requires careful orchestration of mechanical,

software and electrical components into an integrated system often referred

to as mechatronics. This orchestration takes place across a supply chain of

hundreds of partners and suppliers who require a service oriented

architecture (SOA) or common platform to make information sharing easy.

With Websphere Process Server, companies can build a SOA foundation to help

integrate PLM applications with legacy and enterprise business systems.

Dassault Systèmes V6 applications are built on a SOA-compliant platform to

ensure open access and effective integration to enterprise applications.

Tagging customer preferences in the Web 2.0 and virtual world:

Social networking and business intelligence tools will become an integral

part of the PLM process. As companies aim to study market and customer

needs, designers can use web-based tools, such as web logs and wikis, to

collect user preferences.

By providing IBM Lotus Sametime instant messaging capabilities such as part

of the Dassault Systèmes V6 user interface, engineering teams can instantly

review and collaborate on product changes before resources are expended on

manufacturing.

Second Life is emerging as an experimental design platform for industries

with short design cycles such as fashion retail. A retail designer can

use Second Life to test new concepts with consumers directly by quickly

producing virtual samples and sharing them with targeted communities. The

instant sharing of virtual samples will accelerate product feedback and

reduce the number of turned down, physical samples that often end up as

textile waste.

IBM’s PLM Centers of Excellence

(http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/22624.wss) comprise the

largest global network of PLM experts. In these Centers, companies can

safely test new PLM concepts and develop a PLM business strategy using

industry benchmarking studies to identify a company’s current PLM

performance levels against competitors or partners.

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

www.ibm.com/solutions/plm

For Dassault Systèmes 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 Systèmes or its subsidiaries in the US and/or other

countries.

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