Technology Update
Dassault Systèmes Announces Completion of Merger with MatrixOne
MatrixOne expands DS Product Lifecycle Management to include collaborative business processes across all industries
On 11 May 2006, Dassault Systèmes announced that it has completed its merger with MatrixOne. Dassault Systèmes' new PLM Collaborative Environment portfolio, which will take the ENOVIA brand name, will address customers' requirements across the full spectrum of product and business processes, from small-scale teams to extended enterprises with many thousands of users. ENOVIA offers a new level of collaboration, from the most simple to highly engineered complex products and is now poised to address a broad range of industry needs:
- ENOVIA VPLM - 3D Collaborative Virtual Product Lifecycle Management of highly complex product, resource and manufacturing processes in medium and large extended enterprises
- ENOVIA MatrixOne - Collaborative Product Development business processes for enterprises across a wide range of industries, including Synchronicity for Semiconductor Design Data Management
- ENOVIA SMARTEAM - Collaborative Product Data Management for small and mid-sized enterprises, engineering departments of larger organizations, and across supply chains
The following is a copy of the press release:
Dassault Systèmes Announces Completion of Merger with MatrixOne
MatrixOne expands DS Product Lifecycle Management to include collaborative business processes across all industries
Dassault Systèmes, a world leader in 3D and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, announced it has completed the acquisition of MatrixOne Inc., a leading provider of collaborative PLM solutions for the value chain. The all cash purchase price was $410 million in the aggregate, before reflecting cash balances and estimated tax benefits.
"MatrixOne brings key assets to DS: an innovative and knowledgeable global team, and powerful business process technology that will accelerate our ability to serve our customers with the most comprehensive collaborative PLM solution on the marketplace," said Bernard Charlès, president and CEO, Dassault Systèmes. "The merger broadens our industry coverage, particularly in the high-tech, semiconductor, apparel and consumer goods areas, where unique PLM requirements and complex business issues demand focused, world-class solutions. DS is pleased to welcome the MatrixOne employees, customers and partners into the DS family."
Today's companies need to create, produce and rapidly deliver products successfully in increasingly demanding markets, accelerating the adoption of PLM. This trend demonstrates the competitive advantage gained from innovative collaborative business processes, which can result in faster time-to-market and improvements in top-line revenue and bottom-line profitability. The acquisition of MatrixOne reinforces DS' ability to address the needs of this large PLM market, building on its almost 9,000 current successful customer implementations in collaborative PDM software and services.
The new PLM Collaborative Environment portfolio, which will take the ENOVIA brand name, will address customers' requirements across the full spectrum of product and business processes, from small-scale teams to extended enterprises with many thousands of users. ENOVIA offers a new level of collaboration, from the most simple to highly engineered complex products and is now poised to address a broad range of industry needs:
- ENOVIA VPLM - 3D Collaborative Virtual Product Lifecycle Management of highly complex product, resource and manufacturing processes in medium and large extended enterprises
- ENOVIA MatrixOne - Collaborative Product Development business processes for enterprises across a wide range of industries, including Synchronicity for Semiconductor Design Data Management
- ENOVIA SMARTEAM - Collaborative Product Data Management for small and mid-sized enterprises, engineering departments of larger organizations, and across supply chains
All three product lines have world-class executive leadership and will report to Joel Lemke, CEO of ENOVIA. "Combining our PLM product portfolios brings ENOVIA unrivaled breadth and depth of business process coverage, new levels of business collaboration, accelerated PLM deployments, and secure PLM investments," noted Mr. Lemke. "Today, ENOVIA's collaborative capabilities not only include large OEMs and their network of global suppliers, but also extend the benefits of PLM to non-engineering communities across a broad range of industries."
"The acquisition of MatrixOne by Dassault Systèmes is really a good opportunity to improve our consulting and services business on Dassault Systèmes' technology by extending the coverage of the PLM value chain," said Rory Read, Managing Partner, Global Industrial Sector, IBM Global Business Services. "We will be able to leverage both our strong existing partnership with DS and our experience of MatrixOne projects. This acquisition brings additional value to the Dassault Systèmes portfolio, particularly for our clients in the electronic industry. DS will be ideally positioned to offer a comprehensive range of PLM software to this industry."
"We are delighted with Dassault Systèmes' acquisition of MatrixOne," said Patrick McGoldrick, CEO, Tata Technologies Group. "Tata and MatrixOne have delivered world-class PLM solutions for many years. The Merger allows us to deliver significant value via the solution strengths of MatrixOne and the global system integration capabilities of INCAT, the Tata PLM Brand."
"Capgemini is looking forward to expanding our existing MatrixOne relationship into the Dassault Systèmes ecosystem to provide stronger collaborative PLM solutions to an expanded customer base," noted Ed Stark, vice-president, Capgemini LLC.
This press release may contain forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21 E of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, which reflect Dassault Systèmes' current judgment on certain issues. Because such statements apply to future events, they are subject to risk and uncertainties that could cause the actual results to differ materially. Important factors, which could cause actual results to differ materially, are described in the Company's reports on Form 20-F and 6-K on file with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
INCAT Introduces RealizeSM SMARTEAM
Full Usability of SMARTEAM
Using SMARTEAM's product design management tools, engineers can better collaborate, spend more time innovating, and ultimately bring products to market faster. But if key features aren't correctly configured to your organization's needs - or users aren't fully aware of how to put them into practice every day - your PDM investment becomes only a partially deployed system. And the opportunity to do so much more is being missed.
RealizeSM SMARTEAM protects your investment by providing an optimally calibrated PDM system and hands-on training. Engineers can now confidently use the powerful SMARTEAM features that lead to accelerated performance.
Design and Data control
RealizeSM SMARTEAM offers a pre-defined configuration to optimize SMARTEAM's design data management tools:
- CAD integration settings
- Packaged methods for revision change control
- Data models with built-in security
Change and release process
This is a critical area in SMARTEAM where real productivity and design throughput can happen. But it's also the feature that can be the most difficult for an organization to configure on its own, especially if attempting to integrate CAD, PLM, engineering design and change, and supplier release processes. With this in mind, RealizeSM SMARTEAM comes with pre-defined:
- Product Structure and Assembly Revision use cases
- Simple Release Processes
- Change Process Documentation
Increased design productivity
The ability to re-use more parts significantly increases engineering productivity. A RealizeSM SMARTEAM deployment correctly organizes your data to assure:
- A single location for parts
- Quick document retrieval
- A supplier access point for standard designs
Hardware and network configuration
No matter how powerful the PDM solution, points of failure can occur if the system isn't properly integrated with the right hardware and your network. INCAT offers:
- A complete line of hardware options with pre-defined specifications for PLM
- Network analysis and recommendations (optional)
Training
INCAT's CATIA V5 and SMARTEAM training expertise can be delivered to your organization through numerous options that meet your engineers' varying schedules and skill levels:
- Classroom
- On the Job Training (OJT)
- i.get.it e-Learning
Companies can choose from two implementation options - an "out of the box," pre-configured Deploy, or a unique requirement Define & Deploy. Both options empower engineers to confidently use all of the SMARTEAM features that lead to accelerated performance.
RealizeSM SMARTEAM (Deploy)
This option provides an excellent foundation for basic CAD management capabilities, and is typically chosen by companies with a smaller workgroup who need a quick deployment rollout. It includes:
- Electronic vaults to control revisions and security
- Product structure model links
- Pre-defined data model
- Standard design environment configurations
- Base foundation licenses and integration for authoring in CATIA, AutoCAD®, or Inventor®
- Sample use cases
- Standard training materials
RealizeSM SMARTEAM (Define & Deploy)
Companies that choose a RealizeSM Define & Deploy usually have unique CAD Management requirements to better manage complex processes and data. This option includes:
- Electronic vaults to control revisions and security
- Product structure model links
- INCAT-designed data model specific to your business
- Custom design environment configurations
- Test cycles to ensure functionality with your design processes
- Base foundation licenses and integration for authoring in CATIA, AutoCAD, or Inventor
- Custom use cases
- Tailored training options
Typical options that can be added to RealizeSM Define & Deploy are:
- Pilots
- Test Systems
- Data Migration
- OJT and multiple site implementations
- Customization or ERP integration in future phases
http://www.incat.com/pdfs/RealizeSTl_final.pdf. Visit www.incat.com.
HP Raises the Ceiling on File Size (Again)
Working with large files and complex models is now a bit easier. As 3D CAD applications have grown increasingly sophisticated and capable, the sheer number of files and the size of assemblies and models has quickly expanded to challenge the capabilities of memory subsystems to accommodate them. Workstation memory sizing has become critical. If one runs with insufficient physical memory often the largest assemblies require the majority of the file to be held in virtual memory and accessed by a slow process where the application pages back and forth to virtual memory to bring the information it needs forward into main memory to be displayed and used. While this allows very large files to be accessed and used, it can produce slow, jumpy and sometimes error-laden renderings. In extreme cases, the workstation may begin to bog down or crash.
However, some users working with the most complex designs still discovered memory limitations, even if they have migrated to 64-bit technology, as some personal workstations are limited to a maximum of 8 GB, and others 16 GB of physical memory on the motherboard.
HP introduced the HP xw9300 specifically for this most demanding user population. At the time, this AMD Opteron processor-based workstation featured 16 GB of memory in four slots. Recent enhancements in memory technology, however, have increased this capacity to a full 32 GB of DDR1 - 400 MHz SDRAM with up to 12.8 GB per second throughput. What this means for you is that your system headroom just got a lot higher, allowing you even more freedom in how you design and engineer.
System memory is only part of what makes the HP xw9300 such a powerful choice for high-performance CATIA V5 users. The HP xw9300 features up to two AMD Opteron, dual-core processors running at up to 2.8 GHz, (this is essentially four processors dedicated to your CAD desktop) and AMD 1000 MHz HyperTransport Technology. AMD HyperTransport Technology is a high-speed, low latency, point-to-point link designed to increase the communication speed between integrated circuits in computers by up to 48 times. It also reduces the number of required system buses and thus the potential for system bandwidth bottlenecks, allowing high-speed processors to make better use of memory, increasing overall performance while remaining essentially invisible to the operating system and peripheral drivers.
The HP xw9300 is also the first workstation built on the NVIDIA nForce Professional with AMD-8131 HyperTransport PCI-X tunnel chipset. This powerful platform allows the implementation of 2 PCI Express x16 graphics ports, each supporting dual digital displays for up to four, full performance 3D displays at the same time.
Built with room to grow, the HP xw9300 features 3 PCI-X slots and a full-length PCI slot, five 3.5-inch internal drive bays, three 5.25-inch external drive bays, six USB 2.0 ports, one Serial port, two IEEE 1394 ports, two PS/2 ports, one RJ-45 NIC port and a full complement of audio and video input ports. As you would expect from a top-end workstation, the HP xw9300 also supports a full range of input devices including the HP SpacePilot 3D motion controller.
Historically, living with high performance workstations has been a bit of a chore. The more powerful the architecture, the faster fan and drive motors run, generating a lot of noise for you and your co-workers. The HP xw9300 is designed not only to be easy to work with, but to be easy to live with as well. Thanks to acoustic dampening hard drive rails, noise generating vibration in the chassis is reduced, and advanced quiet-circuitry allows fans to run more quietly at lower speeds, when possible, while retaining the ability to power up when needed. All this amounts to a quieter, more productive workspace.
As with all HP workstations, the HP xw9300 has been meticulously tested and certified by HP and Dassault Systèmes. The HP xw9300 is certified for both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of CATIA V5 on XP64. Maintaining peak performance is as simple as a few clicks thanks to the exclusive HP Performance Tuning Framework. The Framework is a free utility pre-installed on all HP workstations, which allows you to automatically tune and optimize your workstation for your specific configuration and application.
To find out more about HP solutions for CATIA users, click here.
For complete information on the HP xw9300 Workstation, click here.
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