By becoming a member of COE, you and your organization will receive a set of valuable benefits available exclusively only to COE members, including:
Educational & Networking Opportunities
Annual COE PLM Conference & TechniFair
Each spring, the Annual COE PLM Conference & TechniFair empowers more than a thousand users within the Dassault Systèmes PLM solutions community with the education they need to help meet and exceed the growing demands of a changing technology. The Annual COE PLM Conference & TechniFair offers you a unique opportunity to hear directly from top Dassault Systèmes and IBM executives and to network with your peers.
Click here to listen to short podcast from Roberta Stainbrook from The Boeing Company and a COE Volunteer on the benefits of attending the Annual PLM Conference & TechniFair.
Why attend this event?
- To gain immediately usable, practical knowledge by choosing from more than 200 technical and developmental sessions and hearing real-world lessons learned by users who have successfully implemented v5.
- To have an opportunity to access broad-based education in all Dassault Systèmes software products, hands-on training, networking, and keynote presentations from top Dassault Systèmes and IBM executives, including Bernard Charles, president and CEO Dassault Systèmes and Scott Hopkins, general manager IBM PLM Solutions, all in one place.
- To preview what’s on the leading edge of products and services from more than 50 industry-leading vendors in the TechniFair.
- To improve your existing infrastructure and processes by hearing about pilot projects and learning different ways of incorporating PLM into your business.
- To participate in the COE University achieving education requirements dictated by directly by representatives of enterprises in distinct industry verticals.
Industry Workshops
Each fall, the COE Industry Workshop - Automotive and COE Industry Workshop - Aerospace offer you low-cost, targeted education, training, and networking focused on Dassault Systèmes' users in their specific industry.
Ask the Experts Webcasts
Join your peers in a one-hour interactive learning experience! COE members will have the opportunity to discuss current strategic issues in the industry via a teleconference. The format allows for a 45-minute presentation, with a 15-minute interactive Q & A following. For more details and schedule of events, visit the Ask the Experts page of the COE Web site.
Publications
COE NewsNet
COE Members receive an electronic newsletter, COE NewsNet, packed with informative articles and tips and techniques each month.
COE Membership Directory
Participating corporate members will receive online access to the COE Member Directory including a listing of the installation demographics of each member organizations. This is a most helpful tool for networking and problem solving.
Advocacy - A United Voice
Dassault Systèmes looks to COE for user perspectives to inform its product development team. Members have a direct line to Dassault Systèmes executives and developers through the Development Planning Councils (DPCs). And by joining COE, you'll strengthen the user groups' ranks, thereby assuring that COE has even more influence with your vendor, Dassault Systèmes.
Requirements Gathering
A Strategic Enhancement Request (SER) is the tool for communicating requirements, for the Dassault Systèmes family of products to Dassault Systèmes. An enhancement request can be submitted, by a COE member company or individual member to the Development Planning Council Committee Chairperson by filling out the Enhancement Request form at a conference or by submitting it electronically using the Enhancement request process on COE’s Web site.
Volunteer Opportunities
Have the opportunity to volunteer on one of the many committees in the COE Community increasing your visibility within the user community and further developing your professional networking contacts.
Website
No other Website provides users of Dassault Systèmes' PLM solutions like www.coe.org. Your COE membership allows you unlimited access to:
- Online discussion forums
- A virtual TechniFair showcasing third-party vendors
- Members-only pages providing a data exchange repository
- Online conference proceedings
- A shareware library
- Access to Regional User Groups (RUGs)
- Data Exchange Tips
- CATIA Technology Center – links to CATIA related resources
Enhanced Member Benefits
There is no better time to join COE. A new membership structure provides new options for you and your company to become a part of this industry-leading user group. Other key goals include:
- Expanding online member services
- New discussion forums
- The revised Installation Data Guide networking tool
- Access to COE’s new expanding Industry Workshops
- Reaching out to smaller CATIA installations
Join COE and take a step toward ensuring that you and your organization have what you need to stay competitive in the ever-evolving CAx industry.
Membership Cost / Benefit Analysis
Why invest more in daily coffee than in continuing education and career-related networking through COE that can get you ahead in your job? To view the Membership Cost/Benefit Analysis, click here.
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