HKS Joins Dassault Systemes' Software Community Program as a CAA V5 Partner

ABAQUS(r) Integration With CATIA V5

Paris, France and Pawtucket, RI, April 15, 2002 - Dassault Systemes (Nasdaq: DASTY; Euronext Paris: #13065, DSY.PA) and Hibbitt, Karlsson & Sorensen, Inc. (HKS), makers of the ABAQUS(r) suite of simulation solutions, today announced the signing of a development agreement making HKS a partner within the CAA V5 Software Community Program. Under this agreement, HKS will integrate ABAQUS technology within the CATIA V5 user environment to provide integrated access to the industry-proven advanced simulation capabilities of ABAQUS.

CATIA V5 Analysis solutions deliver a unique set of knowledge-based structural analysis tools, embedded within an intuitive and user-friendly collaborative environment that supports fast design-to-analysis iterations. This initiative will extend the CATIA analysis environment to provide advanced simulation capabilities, such as non-linear and thermal analysis for CATIA users, based on a natural and familiar user interface. The ABAQUS and CATIA V5 integration will enable sophisticated simulation within a design environment powered by the world's most advanced finite element solver.

"Boeing uses both CATIA and ABAQUS as essential design, analysis and simulation tools," said Rod Dreisbach, Senior Technical Fellow and Emeritus Chairman of the Boeing Technical Fellowship at the Boeing Company. "We are pleased with the directions of the planned initiative between Dassault Systemes and HKS, and we look forward to helping refine the end-user requirements of the integrated system within the CATIA V5 infrastructure."

"Our partnership with Dassault Systemes is strategic for HKS and our joint customers, especially in the aerospace and automotive sectors," commented Mark Goldstein, President and CEO at HKS. "With major customers driving us to extend their deployment of ABAQUS technology to a wider audience within the enterprise, this initiative will significantly enhance key aspects of the product development process." 

G�rard Lecina, Director, Research and Development, CATIA CAE Solutions, Dassault Systemes, commented, "We are very excited about this partnership with HKS. The integration of ABAQUS with CATIA is enabled by the open CAA V5 architecture that provides generic and domain specific frameworks, supporting advanced CAE applications. A comprehensive and native integration of ABAQUS with Dassault Systemes' 3D PLM solutions is crucial to support the end-to-end customers Product Lifecycle Management."

Dassault Systemes is the premier global 3D PLM solutions provider. 3D PLM enables customers to optimize their business processes for engineering, manufacturing, maintenance & support, using collaborative workspaces to share a common product, process and resource model (PPR). With PPR, companies can capture, share and reuse knowledge all along the product lifecycle. The open CAA V5 (Component Application Architecture) allows extension and integration of this solution within multiple enterprise environments.

About Hibbitt, Karlsson & Sorensen, Inc. (HKS)

Founded in 1978 and headquartered in Pawtucket, RI, HKS is the developer
of ABAQUS simulation software and provider of implementation and engineering process services. ABAQUS software solutions and services are used world-wide by leading manufacturers to simulate the performance of mechanical products and implement best engineering practices for mechanical design automation. The company maintains sales and support offices throughout the US, Europe, and Asia. 

www.abaqus.com

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 Corp., 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. 

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