Registration is Now Live for COE Your Way: 2004 Annual Conference & TechniFair

Registration is now online for the COE Annual Conference & TechniFair. Register online before February 28 and save $300! The COE Annual Conference & TechniFair takes place on April 25-28, 2004 at the Fontainbleau Hilton Resort in Miami Beach, Florida.

This year COE is brining together all of the CATIA users and industry experts from around the world for one spectacular event. This annual event promises to be bigger, better, and more exciting than any COE event ever! The COE Annual Conference offers key industry educational and technical sessions presented by industry experts and top IBM and Dassault Systemes executives as well as your chance to see the latest products and services in the TechniFair.

Stay tuned to www.coe.org for the latest conference information including schedule, speaker names and abstracts, and more.

Insta-Poll Results and Next Topic

We want your feedback. Every month we will be asking you a different question on topics concerning your Dassault Systemes software installation, your experiences, or to help us improve COE member benefits. Next month we'll provide the results to our January question and introduce a new question.

Results of the November/December online poll:
What section of the COE Member Center at www.coe.org do you find most valuable?

2% Shareware


10% Library Proceedings


64% Forum


8% Enhancement Requests


10% Data Exchange Tips


6% COE NewsNet

Please be sure to provide your input on our January question: Do you plan to attend the COE 2004 Annual Conference & TechniFair in Miami Beach?

COE Membership Renewals Underway

For 20 years, COE has been the premier international, user-run community uniting and supporting users of Dassault Systemes' family of software, including CATIA, ENOVIA, DELMIA, and SMARTEAM. COE provides one-stop access to experience-based design and product best practices, interactive training, and product influence.

COE is celebrating its 20th anniversary with an exciting new mix of face-to-face events and online learning and advocacy opportunities to make your participation even more valuable. This is COE Your Way 2004!

• the opportunity to learn and share information with more than a thousand CATIA, ENOVIA, DELMIA, and SMARTEAM users, developers, and vendors at the COE 2004 Annual Conference & TechniFair (April 25-28 in Miami Beach)
  
  
• discounted registration to COE's 2004 Industry Workshops featuring interactive, low-cost, targeted training (Aerospace, September 27-28 in Wichita, Kansas and Automotive, October 4-5 in Dearborn, Michigan)
  
  
• discounted registration for COE's Ask the Expert teleconferences and Web casts.
  
  
• free subscription to COE NewsNet, a monthly electronic newsletter filled with informative articles, tips and techniques, and industry outlooks
  
  
• direct line to Dassault Systemes and IBM executives and developers through the Development Planning Councils (DPCs) to voice your product development needs - more COE enhancement requests are incorporated into every release - and new for 2004, you will be able to submit enhancement requests online at your convenience at www.coe.org!
  
  
• access to a virtual TechniFair, and members-only pages providing online conference proceedings and a shareware library through the COE Web site, www.coe.org
  
  
• COE's Installation Data Guide, an annual report of the CATIA installation demographics of member organizations and a helpful tool for your networking and problem solving
  
  
• access to COE's online discussion forums where thousands participate in problem solving and idea sharing

To ensure that you do not lose the benefits described above, you must act now. You recently received a renewal invoice from COE Headquarters, your current installation profile, and a description of COE's membership structure. Please take a few moments to return it with payment and we will renew your membership for 2004. Please return it with full payment by the date on the invoice or your COE membership benefits will be terminated. By renewing your membership, you'll strengthen the user groups' ranks, thereby assuring that COE has even more influence with our suppliers, Dassault Systemes and IBM.

Mark Your Calendar for the COE 'Ask the Expert' Teleconference

Mark your calendar for the next COE "Ask the Expert" Teleconference, Enterprise-Class CATIA V5 Deployment on the Windows Platform, presented by Brad Bossio, Microsoft. This "Ask the Expert" Teleconference will take place on March 18, 2004 at 10:00 A.M. Central Standard Time. Stay tuned to www.coe.org for the latest information and a complete abstract in the coming months.