Dassault Systemes makes a cloud bet

Mumbai: French firm Dassault Systemes, maker of 3D and product lifecycle management (PLM) software for aviation and automotive sectors, will make its packaged software available on a pay per use or SaaS mode.
Dassault has 50% share of the 3D simulation market in India.At present the company’s system integration partners such as Infosys Technologies, Mahindra Satyam and Wipro, deploy the packaged software for companies and provide engineering services on these.
“Once these applications are available as a service, our system integrator partners would provide value added services on top of the application. So their association with us will remain,” said Bruno Latchague, executive vice-president, Dassault Systemes.
Globally, the company has a 40% market share for its 3D tools such as Catia and Solidworx in aviation and automotive sectors.
The company had in 2009 set up an exclusive consulting services arm for India sensing increasing demand for engineering services.
“We have six brands of products of which 3DVIA is already available as software as a service. Other brands such as Catia, Solidworx, Simulia, Delmia and Innovia will soon be made available as SaaS,” said Bruno Latchague, executive vice-president, Dassault Systemes.
27/03/10 Amit Tripathi/Daily News & Analysis

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Categories: Foreign Mar 2010