About Dassault Systèmes

Dassault Systèmes SE provides software solutions and services, designed to support companies’ processes, from specification and design of a new product, to its manufacturing, supply and sale to the customer, through all stages of digital mock-up, simulation, and realistic 3D virtual experiences representing the end-user experience. The company’s worldwide customer base includes companies in 12 industrial sectors, such as transportation and mobility; industrial equipment; aerospace and defense; financial and business services; high-tech; life sciences; energy, process and utilities; consumer goods and retail; natural resources; architecture, engineering and construction; consumer packaged goods and retail; and marine and offshore. The company has developed a software applications portfolio, consisted of 3D modeling applications, simulation applications, social and collaborative applications, and information intelligence applications, all powered by its 3DEXPERIENCE platform. 3D Modeling Applications: The company’s DNA to model and represent as scientifically accurate as possible products, nature and life has given birth to a portfolio of modeling technologies and services ranging from 3D Modeling to Systems Logical and Functional Modeling. This applies to a spectrum of applicative domains from smart/connected products to urban systems, to natural resources, to biological systems and chemistry. SOLIDWORKS – Inspiring Innovation: SOLIDWORKS design software is enabling any company to bring its vision to life and capture worldwide markets. SOLIDWORKS solutions focus on the way you work every day, integrated 3D design environment that covers all aspects of product development and helps improve design and engineering productivity. Approximately 4 million designers and engineers, as well as students worldwide have used SOLIDWORKS to bring designs to life— from the coolest gadgets. SOLIDWORKS solutions cover all aspects of development process with an integrated workflow: 3D Design: SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD (computer aided design) solutions enable team to transform new ideas into great products, with 3D solid modeling; large assembly design; sheet metal design; weldments; and plastic and cast part design, mold design. Other features include design reuse and automation; interference check; design analysis; CAD library, 2D Drawings; 3D animations and photorealistic rendering; and design to cost with manufacturing cost estimations. Electrical Design: Improve productivity and speed time to- market with the range of capabilities in SOLIDWORKS electrical. The company’s software powers planning and design of embedded electrical systems, with increased collaboration between mechanical and electrical design teams. All project design data is synchronized with real-time, bi-directional updates between schematics and the 3D model. Schematic design tools develop embedded electrical systems for machines or products. Product Data Management (PDM): SOLIDWORKS PDM solutions help to get design data under control and improve the teams manage and collaborate on product development. SOLIDWORKS PDM professional enables teams to store and index design data for retrieval; eliminate concerns about version control and data loss; share and collaborate on designs with people inside and outside the organization in multiple locations; and create an electronic workflow to formalize, manage, and optimize development, document approval, and engineering change processes. EXALEAD OnePart helps engineers and designers decide between design creation or design reuse. EXALEAD OnePart is a business discovery application that accelerates reuse of parts, designs, specifications, standards, test results and related data for engineering, manufacturing, and procurement activities. Utilizing the Web semantics, analytics, and big data management technologies of EXALEAD CloudView OnePart locates information from multiple sources and makes it available instantly. Simulation: Simulation designs to real-world conditions to raise the quality of products while reduce costs for live prototypes and testing. SOLIDWORKS offers a suite of simulation applications to set up virtual real-world environments to test product designs before manufacture. Tests could be conducted against a range of parameters during the design process, such as durability, static and dynamic response, motion of assembly, heat transfer, fluid dynamics, and plastics injection molding. SOLIDWORKS 3DEXPERIENCE solutions: SOLIDWORKS on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform delivers a new design experience focuses on enabling its users to create products in a connected and collaborative environment. SOLIDWORKS 3DEXPERIENCE solutions help users develop, review, and select mechanical and stylized concepts before committing to detailed design and manufacturing. Technical communication: SOLIDWORKS composer allows users to repurpose existing 3D design data to create and update graphical assets for product deliverables, including documentation, technical illustrations, animations, and interactive 3D experiences. In addition to the products it offers to SOLIDWORKS users, SOLIDWORKS operates a development partnership program bringing together companies supplying complementary products that are either compatible with integrated. Through this program, approximately 300 compatible products have been made available to customers in various functional areas, including manufacturing, prototyping and mold design. CATIA is the company’s pioneer brand and the solution for 3D product design and based upon its total software revenue. CATIA addresses the development and innovation process, from early concept definition to delivering interactive virtual product experiences. CATIA shifts traditional 3D CAD expectations, delivering solutions adapted to imagine and shape a human centric connected world. GEOVIA provides business, government and individuals with 3DEXPERIENCE universes to model and simulate the earth from the expanse of the geosphere to the smallest details of urban settlements. GEOVIA supports the sustainable capture, use and re-use of natural resources across the planet, including minerals, fresh water, air, oil and gas, and various other forms of energy. BIOVIA provides a scientific collaborative environment for biological, formulated products and advanced materials to help science- and process-driven companies develop products in regulated and non-regulated environments. SIMULIA provides capabilities to simulate virtual worlds constructed as physically realistic mirror images of the real world. DELMIA enables worldwide industrial operations to design and test the manufacturability of products in a simulated, virtual environment; optimize the supply chain and factories to meet objectives; and to operate the factories, warehouses and distribution to manage and fulfill customer demand. 3DVIA provides enterprises and consumers, smart 3D space planning solutions that enable new ways to engage, consider, and make the choice. For enterprises, 3DVIA Home offers home improvement retailers and brand manufacturers a cloud-based, omnichannel space planning solution to engage consumers, generate sales leads, and shorten sales cycle. Growth Strategy The key elements of the company's strategy are to build on value with the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, industry focus and cloud/mobile apps; domain leadership through brand value creation; and improve efficiency leveraging its sales channel coverage. Research and Development For the year ended December 31, 2017, the company’s research and development expenses were €576.6 million. Sales and Marketing The company’s customers range from startups, small and mid-sized companies to the largest companies in the world, as well as educational institutions and government departments. To ensure sales and marketing coverage of all its customers, the company has developed three sales and distribution channels. 3DS Business Transformation Channel: Sales to large companies and government entities are conducted through the company’s direct sales channel, the 3DS business transformation channel. 3DS Value Solutions Channel: Sales to small and mid-sized companies are conducted indirectly through the company’s value solutions channel, a worldwide network of value-added resellers with industry specialization. 3DS Professional Channel: The 3DS Professional channel is an indirect channel focused on the volume market. It consists of a network of value-added resellers and distributors worldwide providing sales, local training, services and support to customers. In addition to its sales channels, the company continues to actively develop and expand relationships with system integrators with industry and domain expertise. Intellectual Property As of December 31, 2017, the company’s portfolio consisted of 507 protected inventions, including 38 new inventions. Patents have been granted in one or more countries for approximately 60% of these inventions, and patents for the others are pending. Competition The company competes on the basis of offer, capabilities, industry knowledge, service support, and pricing and bundling strategies. Competition includes long-standing competitors, including Siemens, Autodesk and PTC, as well as Oracle and SAP with respect to its collaborative enterprise business processes and industrial operations software offer; and Altair Engineering, ANSYS, and MSC Software (owned by Hexagon), with respect to the company’s structural, fluid, electromagnetic and multi-physics software offer. Additional companies, principally software developers who compete occasionally directly or indirectly with the company include, among others, Adobe, ARAS, Aveva Group, Bentley Systems, Centric Software, Intergraph (owned by Hexagon AB), JDA, Microsoft, Nemetschek, Onshape, Salesforce.com, and other software companies in the mining sector or offering information intelligence and social enterprise innovation and collaboration software capabilities; and developers in all areas of molecular chemistry or biology, optimizing processes or digital marketing. History Dassault Systemes SA was founded in 1981.