Dassault Systemes receives the highest award in worldwide Ratings on sustainability and reaffirms its commitment in this area through further measures. In Germany will be the first 3Dexperience Lab opened. The company is thus expanding its global influence on development future-oriented technologies. You can find this and other company announcements below: 

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Awards and measures for sustainability

Dassault Philippine de TSerclaes23.02.2023/XNUMX/XNUMX | For the second consecutive year, Dassault Systèmes will be in the DJSI World Index recorded. This puts the company among the top 1% of software companies and ranks fourth out of 332 places. The company has also been awarded the "AAA" "Leader" rating by MSCI and the "Platinum Medal" by Eco Vadis. These honors recognize commitment in the areas of the environment, social affairs and corporate governance.

The DJSI is one of the world's leading analysis of measures for the sustainability of global companies in relation to ESG and economic criteria. With the result, the CAE specialist by eight points improved compared to 2021. The greatest progress has been made in innovation management, environmental policy, management systems and human capital development.

With the first MSCI ESG "AAA" rating the company has proven to be a leader in the software and services industry. The ratings are intended to reflect a company's resilience to long-term ESG risks. Dassault Systèmes achieved the AAA rating for its comprehensive business ethics framework and focus on retaining and developing talent. The result compared to the AA rating in 2021 could thus be improved.

EcoVadis also awarded Dassault Systèmes a platinum medal. This classification is based on the assessment of environmental, labor and human rights issues as well as sustainable, ethical procurement criteria. The company is included in the FTSE4 Good Indexes and the Euronext Eurozone ESG Indexes (Large 80) - based on 6th place in the software sector by Vigeo Eiris.

Dassault Systèmes also reaffirms its commitment to sustainability by introducing the LCA solution on the 3Dexperience platform. On this basis, customers can measure the environmental impact of their products and processes. Philippine de T'Serclaes has been appointed Chief Sustainability Officer. A declaration of intent on climate policy engagement within the framework of the UN climate change conference COP27 was also signed.

3Dexperience Lab opened for startups

Dassault Systemes 3Dexperience Lab


25.10.2022/3/XNUMX | After Paris, Boston and Pune, Dassault Systèmes has opened the first XNUMXDexperience Lab in Germany. The global Impact Lab aims to accelerate pioneering projects with a strong positive impact on society. The new hub in Munich supports young founders and local start-ups in implementing their disruptive ideas into reality. Innovators and doers should be able to fully develop their creativity.

The realization of a more sustainable world is the focus of the innovation network. With the 3Dxperience Lab, Dassault Systèmes creates framework conditions that enable open innovations. The network combines collective intelligence with a collaborative approach to foster entrepreneurship, bring new experiences to life and shape the future of society with positive change.

Program, technical equipment and knowledge base

Dassault Systems Lab


The 3Dexperience Lab offers young companies and start-ups from various industries ideal conditions for the implementation of their innovations of tomorrow. A place with Fab, Immersive, Virtual Twin, Ideation and Data Labs welcomes the community. As part of a two-year program, founders gain access to the 3Dexperience platform and its cloud-based software solutions. In addition, there is technical equipment and a knowledge base along the entire development cycle.

A comprehensive one mentoring and coaching Approach offers expertise through a global technology and business network and supports the inventors in business-related areas such as sales or marketing. Young entrepreneurs are also supported by an incubator partner network in Germany. These include the Deutsche Messe Technology Academy, ESA BIC Bavaria, Sustainable Aero Lab and TUM Venture Labs.

As a central contact point, the 3Dexperience Lab in Munich is intended to help develop ideas, exchange ideas with other young founders and meet investors and industrial companies. Makers are invitedto join the community, use the space and network online.

“The start-up scene in Germany has developed rapidly in recent years and a large number of promising ideas have emerged. With our 3Dexperience Lab in Munich, we want to continue to support young inventors and give them a home," says Frederic Vacher, Head of Innovation at Dassault Systèmes. "As a society, we are currently facing enormous challenges such as climate change, the development of new energy sources and the sustainable use of resources. In order to cope with these, we have to think outside the box and break new ground."

The Mission of the Innovation Labs

 

Dassault Systèmes changes executive management

Dassault Pascal Daloz15.02.2022/XNUMX/XNUMX | Dassault Systèmes announces personnel changes in Management famous. The Group is thus fully aligning its management level and operational business with its long-term strategy.

Pascal Daloz will focus on his role as Chief Operating Officer. The Operations Executive Committee, which he chairs, supports the Group on its course for innovation in the manufacturing, Health services, life sciences, infrastructure and cities. At the operational level, Mr. Daloz leads all global strategic functions such as the 3DExperience platform, industries, brands, human resources and administration.

Rouven Bergman will be appointed Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President, reporting to Pascal Daloz. Mr. Bergmann is a proven expert in finance in the cloud and software sector. He played a key role in the integration of Medidata following its acquisition by Dassault Systèmes. 

Dassault Rouven BergmanBefore that he managed as COO Life Sciences at Dassault Systèmes, Medidata's operations. He joined Medidata Solutions in 2015 as CFO after being CFO of SAP North America. Bergmann holds a master's degree in mechanical engineering and business administration from the TU Kaiserslautern and has a doctorate in business administration from the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich. 

New leadership of 3DExperience-Works and new CEO of Solidworks

08.02.2022 | Dassault Systèmes has during the 3DExperience World 2022 strategic changes announced at management level. The CEO of Solidworks (SW) Gian Paolo Bassi, who has been successful for seven years, will in future lead the 3Dexperience-Works organization as Executive Vice President. Manish Kumar, who has been responsible for R&D at SW since 2018, is also appointed CEO of SW.

The two appointments aim to advance the research and development of the solutions for the SW users and the mainstream market of the expanded 3DExperience Works Offer benefit more.

Dassault Paolo BassiPaul Bassi has more than 25 years of experience in the 3D, CAD and PLM industry. At Dassault Systèmes, he has been instrumental in SW's growth and diversification since joining the company in 2011. As CEO, Mr. Bassi led the development of the brand's product and technology strategies for desktop and cloud. Prior to that, he served as Vice President of R&D at SW. With his practice-oriented technical knowledge and close cooperation with the SW users, he was particularly responsible for the development of the brand's cloud applications.

Manisha Kumar played a key role in developing SW's product and technology strategies as Vice President of SW R&D. In his additional role as CEO, Mr. Kumar will drive strong relationships between the brand's R&D and user community and accelerate the utilization of the ever-growing SW portfolio. 

Dassault Manish KumarMr. Kumar joined the SW development team in 1998 as a software engineer. He was instrumental in the early developments of SW in various areas. He also led the development of the 3Dexperience within SW R&D. He was one of the main players in the transformation process by SW through collaboration with the larger Dassault Systèmes R&D team. 

Cooperation with ESA BIC Bavaria and Northern Germany

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25.01.2022/XNUMX/XNUMX | Dassault Systemes, ESA (European Space Agency) BIC (Business Incubation Centre) Bavaria and ESA BIC Northern Germany have signed a cooperation agreement. The ESA BIC Incubation program is part of the largest innovation network for space travel worldwide. It offers young entrepreneurs comprehensive support with equity-free financing, Research, mentoring and development.

The ESA BIC Bavaria and Northern Germany promote innovative companies with disruptive products and digital business models in the areas of robotics, Automotive, Medical Technology, mobility, aviation and satellite technology. If necessary, support extends to market entry. The program is organized by the international networking and innovation promotion company AZO Application Center GmbH Oberpfaffenhofen in cooperation with its partners such as the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs, ESA, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Airbus Defense & Space, Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS and Kreissparkasse Munich-Starnberg-Ebersberg carried out. 


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Dassault Systemes joins the two ESA BIC partner networks as a technical industry partner to promote and accelerate disruptive innovations. With the open innovation laboratory and accelerator program 3Dexperience Lab the software specialist offers start-ups and young companies extensive networking opportunities as well as access to a wide range of licensed software applications.

Atos and Dassault Systemes create cloud platform

16.12.2021 | Atos and Dassault Systemes will together offer the 3DexperienceSaas platform for critical and sensitive industries in a sovereign environment, especially for authorities and the healthcare sector. The highly secure platform enables collaborative work in the cloud with full monitoring of data, processes and intellectual property. It can be set up for each country on a sector-specific basis and based on local regulations.

Many industries are already using digital twins for business and manufacturing processes. They need special and secure environments to offer trustworthy experiences to business partners, patients, citizens or students. 


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With the 3Dexperience platform, users get an interactive and collaborative real-time holistic insight into all business activities. The Atos services are based on the Atos Onecloud Sovereign Shield. This is a combination of products, methods and cloud services. As the world's number 2 in the field of cyber security services, Atos contributes relevant know-how and its own solutions for cyber security and thus meets the special requirements of critical infrastructures. The offer also includes a Security Operation Center (SOC) and cyber security services to secure maintenance and administration activities.

The platform meets the requirements of NIS policy (European Network and Information Security Directive) and the French CIIP law (Critical Infrastructures Information Protection). It thus fulfills the highest level of data protection, especially in the detection of security incidents and the administration of information systems. 

Atos and Dassault Systemes will also become the expanding their partnership using Atos' cybersecurity products, High Performance Computing (HPC) expertise and critical systems engineering combined with the 3DExperience platform.

Roadmap for sustainability

10.08.2021/XNUMX/XNUMX | Dassault Systemes announces that the initiative Science-based targets (SBTI) has officially confirmed the company's goals to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions. They are in line with the Paris Climate Agreement and SBTI Best Practices. Dassault Systemes has also committed to achieving net-zero emissions by 2040. By using virtual twins, the world market leader for Virtual Twin Experiences (VTE) and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) wants to advance sustainability at a global level at high speed.

The confirmed targets relate to emissions from Dassault Systemes' own activities (Scope 1 and 2). They correspond to the reduction that goes to Limiting the temperature rise around 1,5 °C are necessary. The targets for reducing emissions from business travel, commuting and the value chain (Scope 3) are also in line with SBTI best practices.


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To offset the remaining emissions and meet sustainability commitments to 2040 the Catia developer will collaborate with industrial companies to develop technical solutions on its 3Dexperience platform. These developments aim to permanently remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

The 3Dexperience platform forms the basis of the virtual twins and is an enabler of PLM best practices that are driving industrial change in manufacturing, healthcare, construction and other industries. It opens up completely new engineering opportunities for companies to design and develop sustainable innovations and make them available to customers. through the Simulation In the digital space, scenarios with data from the real world can be mapped virtually and thus pioneering ideas can be tested and improved without risk. It can also help to optimize the value-added process in order to reduce emissions and waste.

Dassault Systemes is a founding member of the EGDC

07.04.2021 | Dassault Systemes is a founding member of the European Green Digital Coalition (EGDC). The association of leading technology companies pursues the common mission of supporting the green and digital transformation of the economy in and outside of Europe. 

The EGDC was endorsed by the European Union on March 19, 2021 at the conference Digital Day 2021 formally established. It underlines the key role of digital networks, technologies and applications in developing environmental and climate benefits. The aim is to transform the economy against the background of climate change, exploitation of natural resources, environmental pollution and species extinction. The EGDC is committed to development and deployment green digital solutions invest in a variety of sectors, develop standardized impact assessment methods for such solutions, and develop cross-sector deployment guidelines for such solutions.

Dassault Systemes' commitment to the EGDC is the company's goal, business and society virtual universes to promote the promotion of sustainable products that are in harmony with the environment and life. The software specialist has drafted a sustainability strategy for 2025 that aims to actively reduce its own ecological footprint as well as that of its customers - from large multinational corporations to start-ups. A commitment to meeting your own science-based emissions target and prioritizing partnerships with stakeholders will help drive digital technology in global sustainability initiatives. The strategy also includes helping customers reduce their emissions by using the 3Dexperience platform to create digital twins.

Pascal Daloz is the new COO at Dassault Systèmes

Dassault COO Pascal Daloz25.03.2020/XNUMX/XNUMX | Dassault Systèmes appoints Pascal Daloz (50) for Chief Operating Officer (COO). This newly created position is intended to expand and strengthen the company's management generation. In this way, the strategic orientation is to be advanced in the coming years. Pascal Daloz will remain the company's Chief Financial Officer. He has held this position since 2018. 

Pascal Daloz becomes Operations as COO Executive Committee conduct. The new organizational structure is designed to support Dassault Systèmes' future ambitions to drive innovation in life sciences, healthcare, manufacturing, and infrastructure and cities. In addition, Pascal Daloz will coordinate operational decision-making for all strategic functions in the company. This includes the 3Dexperience platform, eleven brands, global presence, industry focus, human resources and administration.

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Virtual twins for healthcare

Dassault virtual twin

05.11.2019 | Dassault Systèmes has completed the acquisition of Medidata Solutions, Inc. announced. Medidata's clinical expertise and cloud-based solutions are the starting points for innovative development and marketing concepts for medical treatments. With the acquisition, Dassault Systèmes positions itself as a pioneer in the digital transformation of life sciences through personalized medicine and patient-centric experiences. 

"Medidata will be a core brand in our information intelligence space," said Bernard Charles, Vice Chairman and CEO of Dassault Systèmes. “By combining data intelligence and simulation, we are driving smarter treatments that benefit everyone's health.

The integrative and multidisciplinary 3Dexperience platform is designed for innovators in the Health services be key to anticipating and delivering on the industry's necessary transformation towards cost-effective and accurate healthcare in the 21st century.


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The virtual world will push the boundaries of what is possible, fundamentally changing not only research and science, but also the entire pharmaceutical and medical device industry and medicine in general. We made virtual twins of cars and planes possible. We will do the same for the human body create."

Dassault Systèmes and BHP drive digitization in mining

02.05.2019/XNUMX/XNUMX | Dassault Systèmes and BHP, a leading global resource group, have entered into a long-term strategic partnership. The aim of the cooperation is to promote the use of digital technologies in mining. By linking the experience and skills of both companies, the added value of digital technologies should also be uncovered in the core areas of geosciences and resource engineering.

The companies benefit from knowledge about the successful use of these technologies in other industries. The partnership aims to create a new understanding of potential of raw materials as well as the operative business. The basis for this is the commitment of both companies to the issues of safety and sustainability.

"BHP and Dassault Systèmes share the same vision and purpose for 21st century mining," says Bernard Charles, Vice Chairman and CEO of Dassault Systèmes. "If all operational processes are digitized from planning to use, our 3Dexperience platform, as a collaborative innovation environment for holistic optimization, provides the experience of a digital twin of the end-to-end processes. This transformational approach enables market agility, improved predictability, innovation for sustainable mining, and significant cost reductions throughout the lifecycle. It also translates into a proven track record that is already transforming the manufacturing industry today.”

ABB and Dassault Systèmes agree partnership 

10.03.2019/XNUMX/XNUMX | ABB and Dassault Systèmes have announced a far-reaching global partnership to offer digital industry customers a unique portfolio of software solutions. The offer ranges from Product Lifecycle Management to investment security. The two companies will offer their customers a comprehensive range of advanced, open digital solutions:

The partnership carries the strengths of digital ABB Abilitysolutions and Dassault Systèmes' 3Dexperience platform, backed by both companies' strong installed base, deep industry knowledge and global access to customers. ABB already uses the 3Dexperience platform to model and simulate their solutions before they are delivered to customers. With this partnership, ABB will develop advanced digital twins.

The companies will be in one phased approach on solutions for the factory automation and Robotic, process industry automation and electrification for smart buildings focus. First joint solutions will be presented at the Hannover Messe gezeigt.

Interview: Next step Industrial renaissance

23.08.2018/4.0/XNUMX | How Dassault Systems supports its customers on the way to Industry XNUMX and what the industry renaissance is all about Klaus Löckel, Managing Director Eurocentral, in an interview during our visit to Munich. We also asked him the following questions:

  • What Unique selling points has Dassault Systèmes recognized as the world's most sustainable company in 2017?
  • In the last 2 years you have reorganized sales as Sales Director: What have you changed??
  • How do you relate to these changes in your new position?
  • What is the current status of your software developments: Is that Industry 4.0 managed companies with it already possible?
  • The SME still has some catching up to do when it comes to digitization: how do you specifically support them?
  • What exactly do you mean by Industrial renaissance?
  • Do you have an example from practice?
  • How does Dassault Systèmes protect its customers from threats such as cybercrime?
  • Which challenges are your developers currently working on?
  • What is behind the Marketplace-topic?
  • Is there already one Vision for the time when Industry 4.0 has become part of everyday life?



Dassault Systèmes is the most sustainable company in the world

Bernard Charles28.01.2018 | Corporate Knights Dassault Systèmes ranked first in the 100 Most Sustainable Companies in the World for 2018. The Global 100 Index is considered the gold standard for corporate sustainability analysis. The ranking is based on the calculation of many important performance indicators - including environmental and social skills as well as financial and innovative strength - but and from this year also on the sustainability value of a company's products.

Dassault Systèmes was named in the Global 100 index recorded. The ranking for 2018 is a clear recognition of Software Schmiede's holistic sustainability strategy - from reducing the ecological footprint and developing the working world of the future to defining new business models in today's industry, which is experiencing a renaissance.

"Dassault Systèmes is honored to be recognized by Corporate Knights as #1 for our vision of harmonizing product, nature and life and for implementing that vision in everything we do," says Bernard Charles (Image), Vice Chairman & CEO, Dassault Systèmes. “In the virtual world we can simulate and evaluate effects before we produce the product ourselves. Virtual worlds also help people to imagine the real world differently, thereby expanding and improving it.

Using the 3Dexperience platform, innovators can play an important role in the development of sustainability models. We are proud of the examples we have selected from the 12 industries in which we operate. These include, among others, the record-breaking solar-powered airplanes of Solar Impulse, the winning teams of hyperloops Pod competition, the streamlined services that benefit a city's stakeholders, or even the additive manufacturing aerospace parts that can reduce weight by 80%.

Who is Dassault Systèmes?



Dassault Systèmes is a global software developer headquartered in Vélizy-Villacoublay, France, founded in 1981. The 3Dexperience-Company employs 20.000 people from over 140 countries. With the 3Dexperience platform, the company provides software solutions that enable users to develop innovative new products and services using virtual environments. In addition to 3Dexperience, Catia, Biovia, Geovia, SolidWorks, 3Dvia, Enovia, Netvibes, Medidata, Centric PLM, 3DExcite, Simulia, Delmia and Ifwe are commercial or registered trademarks of the company.

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