Dassault Systemes' SMARTEAM Provides Product Lifecycle Collaboration Solutions on IBM's DB2 Database Software

Business Wire, April 11, 2002

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KFAR SABA, Israel & PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 11, 2002

Enabling Customers to Speed Innovative Products to Market within a

Proven Data Management Environment

IBM, Dassault Systemes and SMARTEAM announced today that SMARTEAM's Product Lifecycle Collaboration solutions have been enabled to interoperate with IBM's DB2 database software creating a powerful platform for comprehensive Product Lifecycle Management (PLM).

The potent combination of SMARTEAM and IBM's DB2 will provide users with a competitively priced, integrated solution that will reduce time and simplify the installation, administration, configuration and maintenance of product lifecycle management (PLM) environments.

"Today's announcement is another example of leading application developers choosing to standardize on IBM's DB2 database as their preferred deployment platform," said Lauren Flaherty, vice president of marketing, IBM Data Management Solutions. "The combination of DB2 and SMARTEAM provides customers with significant performance improvements at the lowest cost of ownership for product lifecycle management applications."

"IBM's DB2 solutions are a distinct standard in data management and will be attractive to our expanding customer base," said Tanya Epstein, Executive Vice-President, Research and Development, SMARTEAM. "By providing IBM's DB2 database software with SMARTEAM solutions, our customers can now focus their deployment activities on developing and delivering innovative products to their markets knowing that their product data resides within a proven data management environment."

The SMARTEAM suite of market-leading Product Lifecycle Collaboration solutions provides enterprises of all sizes a broad range of integrated, web-centric, business process solutions covering all aspects of product lifecycle support, and integrating with supply chain management, enterprise resource planning, and other business process management applications. Developed in conjunction with innovative industry-leading customers, and integrating best-in-class business practices for product development management, the SMARTEAM integrated solutions capture, promote, and support these best practices throughout the extended enterprise.

As the foundation for e-business, IBM's DB2 is the industry's first multimedia, Web-ready relational database management system, strong enough to meet the demands of large corporations and flexible enough to serve medium-sized and small e-businesses. IBM's DB2 combines integrated power for business intelligence, content management, enterprise information portals and e-business with industry-leading performance and reliability to drive the most demanding industry solutions. DB2 Universal Database together with Internet technology makes information easily accessible, available and secure. There are more than 60 million DB2 users from over 450,000 companies worldwide relying on IBM data management solutions. For more information please visit http://www.software.ibm.com/data.> About IBM

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About Dassault Systemes

Dassault Systemes is the premier global software developer for the CAD/CAM/CAE/PLM market, providing companies with e-business solutions to implement their digital enterprise, thus creating and simulating the entire product life cycle from initial concept to product in service. CATIA, ENOVIA and DELMIA Solutions support industry-specific business processes to help unleash creativity and innovation, reduce development cycle time, improve quality, competitiveness and shareholder value: CATIA supports the digital product definition and simulation, DELMIA provides solutions to define and simulate lean digital manufacturing processes and ENOVIA delivers enterprise solutions that manage a comprehensive, collaborative and distributed model of the digital product, processes and resources. The combined integration creates the Digital Product life cycle Pipeline, supporting reuse of corporate knowledge. SolidWorks and SMARTEAM, as Dassault Systemes companies, offer respectively 3D design-centric and collaborative PDM software solutions based on Windows and the Internet. Spatial, also part of the Dassault Systemes family, is a market-leading provider of world-class 3D software components and services (for 3D modeling, visualization, and interoperability) to meet the requirements of 3D in Internet-based e-commerce and B2B applications.

Information about Dassault Systemes is available at http://www.dsweb.com

About SMARTEAM

SMARTEAM, a Dassault Systemes S.A. company, (NASDAQ: DASTY; Euronext Paris: #13065, DSY.PA) develops, markets and supports rapidly-implemented, yet totally customizable, product lifecycle collaboration solutions that drive efficiency, quality and responsiveness for customer centric organizations and their value chains. Founded in 1995, SMARTEAM is one of the fastest-growing companies in the PLM market with over 2,000 customers worldwide, and a broad solutions portfolio that enables manufacturing organizations and their supply chains to efficiently manage and collaborate on product information from concept through realization. SMARTEAM's solutions help companies gain improvements in product quality, reduce costs, expedite project turnaround, comply with industry standards and shorten time-to-market.