Dassault Systemes and IBM Announce Version 5 Release 17 of Their Product Lifecyle Management (PLM) Portfolio

Dassault Systemes and IBM Announce Version 5 Release 17 of Their Product Lifecyle Management (PLM) Portfolio

Dassault Systemes (DS) (Nasdaq: DASTY)(Euronext Paris: DSY) and IBM today announced the release of Version 5 Release 17 (V5R17) of their Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) portfolio, comprised of CATIA for collaborative product development, ENOVIA VPLM and ENOVIA SmarTeam for collaborative lifecycle management. Dassault Systemes also announced DELMIA V5R17 for virtual production and its V5R17 PLM sourcing solutions (Collaborative Enterprise Sourcing – CES) for ENOVIA VPLM. V5R17 delivers on DS and IBM’s PLM strategy for business process optimization, value chain innovation, engineering to manufacturing cycle streamlining, intellectual capital growth and standards adoption.

“V5R17’s unique virtual community enables integration between stakeholders in the product development chain, facilitating the reuse and sharing of knowledge,” noted Dominique Florack, executive vice-president, Strategy and R&D, Dassault Systemes. “V5R17 delivers unequalled benefits for manufacturing and sourcing to all industries, while expanding coverage of engineering processes. V5R17 extends V5 openness, offering major XML enhancements through its combined 3DXML and web services strategy, for large deployments in our customers’ ecosystems.”

Walter Donaldson, General Manager, Product Lifecycle Management, IBM, said, “Leveraging product information to align product development processes with business strategy is a key challenge for our customers. V5R17 reinforces our ability to help customers grow their businesses by deploying innovative solutions that drive efficiency, productivity and overall success in the marketplace. IBM’s breadth of business transformation skills, SOA infrastructure, middleware, hardware and services combine perfectly with V5R17 to deliver on the promise of enterprise-level PLM and improve the entire business operation.”

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