This used to be one of the best kept secrets. It's not anymore: as stated in an excellent blog post by Michael, PLM MarketPlace offers a tremendous opportunity for DS customers looking for partner solutions. You know it. But now there is more behind that:

PLM MarketPlace offers exclusive discounts. Today our partners Cenit, TraceParts, Vison Numeric offer discount campaigns, and they will be joined in may by DPS and Geometric.

To get information about discounts you can either check our homepage, our private section or our twitter(*). Depending on partner policy these discounts or specific conditions can be public in some cases, but in a general they will be detailed only in our private section. Customers and Resellers can check our website on a regular basis. By the way, for lazy and/or smart people (and I believe you are more smart than lazy ), you can have this info brought to you if you follow us on twitter!

As usual we don't want to use web2.0 technologies for fun only. We think these technologies also make things easy to buy or sell partner solutions, and we hope you'll want to take the benefit of the new twitter alert system. Really, if your local pizza joint is doing it, PLM professionnals can also do it! Of course you will not only get discount alerts there, it's also a nice way to follow what's moving in our partner network.

(*) on twitter people answer the simple question 'what are you doing?' in 140 letters or less, a bit like a SMS that would be published on a wall. Other people can 'follow' them and receive updates. Answers can be public or private via a Direct Message. By extension, this is a great way to report short business information to our community.

Jacques.

I'm back from COE Seattle!  This was a great event and I want to thank all of the Dassault Systemes partners and customers for their participation and investment in the event. Thanks to all those who stopped by the PLM Marketplace booth! 

The PLM MarketPlace community has grown significantly since our inception. Now is the ideal time for partners to take advantage of the site to drive revenue for your offerings. Note that eight of our Software Partners referenced on PLM MarketPlace were also present in the Techni Fair CD-adapco, Cenit, Creaform, Elysium, IGE+XAO, Intercim, Optis and Theorem.

It was also a great pleasure to visit the AMD/Lenovo booth and meet with the North American Eagle Team, led by Driver/Owner, Ed Shadle and Co-Owner, Keith Zanghi. The North American Eagle team is on a quest to break the world land speed record of 763 mph, established by a British team. Their passion for innovation and motivation to bring the record back to the US is amazing!

Tom Schorr (that's me in the blue)

As a manufacturer in today's economic climate, you are being forced to do more with less. Your company is probably facing uncertain production objectives and a desire to reduce costs while maintaining or increasing efficiency. Moreover, most companies like yours are concentrating less on the grand, multi-year vision for the enterprise and more on its near-term needs to meet today's urgent goals.

View this 40’ on-demand event featuring Intercim & Dassault Systemes/ Delmia to learn how real-time collaboration between engineering and manufacturing can help you. You'll discover how your company can achieve higher rates of production efficiency today, while also putting your company in a good position for the future.

You'll learn how to:
- align engineering data with manufacturing to improve engineering deliverables such as process planning
- leverage manufacturing knowledge in the engineering process to improve knowledge transfer
- increase manufacturing visibility to change in order to reduce the cost of change
- improve configuration management through a tight integration between engineering and manufacturing
- reduce manufacturing waste through visiblity to the right engineering information at the right time.

Click the picture below to access to the presentation.

Virginie Dupin,
Intercim

If it's not already done, it's time for you to mark your agenda! During four days, April 19-22, in Seattle (WA) will be held the COE 2009 Annual PLM Conference & TechniFair. 2008 was a success for PLM MarketPlace at this event, so we decided to come back!

Those of you having the opportunity to come this year are welcome to visit us at our booth. Tom Schorr, Manager, Global Technology Partner Programs & Business Development, from Dassault Systemes North America, will be on hand to host and give you an update on the new happenings with the PLM MarketPlace. Note that eight of our Software Partners referenced on PLM MarketPlace will be also present in the TechniFair: CD-adapco, Cenit, Creaform, Elysium, IGE+XAO, Intercim, Optis and Theorem.

Take time to visit them and discover their solutions! Are you gonna be part of "PLM MarketPlace @ COE: the return"?

Anthony

PLM MarketPlace's blog is changing!

After beeing in the private section of the PLM MarketPlace since last year, our blog is now public. But the scope of this blog has not changed: we have here a business blog dedicated to professionnals (B2B), with a focus on value added by our network of partners referenced on PLM MarketPlace. In this wordle map of our partner's portfolio, we can see that our partner solutions are mostly CAAV5-based softwares today, providing value to CATIA V5 users.

In these pages we will be happy to share experiences about partner products, events, use cases, success stories that can provide value to our community of users. We will welcome contents provided by our referenced partner community. Resellers and customers could propose articles in reference to referenced partner solutions used by Dassault Systemes customers. (Stories about Dassault Systemes' Solutions shall be posted on our corporate website or on our corporate blog).

See you soon on PLM MarketPlace' blog

PS: Sales content has been removed from older blog posts. Confidential information remain on the private section of the Marketplace, with an access limited to VAR members.

Jacques

So, almost 5 months later here we are: we have just welcomed our 700th member and became (as of to today) the first PLM-related branded group on LinkedIn! As a matter of fact, even though we are more looking for quality rather than quantity, I must confess that the DS Alliances Team is quite proud of it! Customers, prospects, engineers, software/hardware/services partners, resellers, students, DS people... are part of the group! Even our competitors want to be part of it (using sometimes the craziest stratagemes to fool us )!

Many topics are discussed by all those people: info requests on DS Partners' products or (including products, releases, events,...), the future of CAA V5, specific usages of PLM in particular industries, and also job offers all over the world. We are proud to see that some of our members managed to establish a business relationship thanks to our LinkedIn group. It was (and still definitly is) our primary goal!

I really think this is a unique place that gives you a wide range of opportunities in terms of business and knowledge. And, guess what: it is completly free! You just need to create a (free) profile on www.linkedin.com and ask for joining the group PLM MarketPlace!

Now it's your turn!

Anthony

In a recent newsletter, our partner Vision Numeric told us about their successes in the watch, jewellery and microtechnics industries. Vision Numeric is the software Company behind "Type3" solutions, and these solutions have just been put in place at Createch, a French company based in Besançon (near the Switzerland frontier). Createch is specialized in the design, development and production of these luxury parts, they are working for the most famous names of Place Vendôme (Paris).

Createch has been using CATIA software for many years with two 6 axes Bumotec S191 machining center. When their customers asked for engraved parts, Createch asked it to a Value Added Reseller and was put through Vision numeric. They are DS software partners for 6 years, specialized in artistic CAD CAM, and they could propose a solution. On-site qualifications allowed Createch users to confirm that Vision numeric add-in, Type3 CAAV5 Based, was the answer they needed. Createch placed an order and their team was trained within days. 

This story is interesting because it shows that partners solutions made available by our PLM MarketPlace partners can be quickly deployed to Small and Medium customers. We think sharing this kind of experience in SMB can be usefull for other customers also looking for solutions to their specialized needs. All of our referenced partners (Software and resellers) are invited to share with our community their success stories. Stories may be published on this blog and/or on our Customer pages.

Jacques

Find below all the webinars from our Referenced Partners available this month.

Don't hesitate to click the links to get enrolled!

>> CD-adapco
Simulation for Meeting Deep Offshore Technology Challenges
March 19, 2009: 15:00 GMT (10AM EST, 16:00 CET)
http://www.cd-adapco.com/events/WebEx/index.html

Find below all the webinars from our Referenced Partners available this month.

Don't hesitate to click the links to get enrolled!

>>
Ready, Set, Migrate!
February 19, 2009 - 11 am - 11:45 am, US - Eastern Time Zone
https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/236581524

>> CD-adapco
Modeling Vehicle Aerodynamics and Vehicle Thermal Management (VTM)
February 26, 2009 - 15:00 GMT (10AM EST, 16:00 CET)
http://www.cd-adapco.com/events/WebEx/index.html

CAD DATA MIGRATION from CADDS to CATIA

Computer Aided Design is now in its fifth generation. The exciting promise of the early 1980s is now being delivered with unimaginable modelling capabilities on the designer’s desktop running on the humble personal computer. Computer Aided Design has come of age and today’s powerful, intuitive, flexible PLM systems can replace everything that went before at a fraction of the cost. Strangely even despite the massive strides that have been made in functionality and usability some of the old systems still survive. They have not just survived but have become entrenched and are acting as a barrier to the extension of new systems that model more easily, have truly integrated databases and are less costly to run.

image courtesy of BAE Systems

How do the businesses where CADDS has become entrenched, take advantage of the newer, more powerful and less expensive PLM systems and particularly CATIA V5 and CATIA V6?

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