Along with DEVCON 2009 we will have our yearly Partner Summit which will take place in DS Campus near Paris, on June 25th. Take advantage of being present to join us during this unique occasion to meet all DS and its Partners executives and leaders to talk about business!

More than ever, the Partner Summit is “The Executive Meeting for Partners to discuss joint Business Opportunities”. Being a Solution Partner [Software, Technology, Service] or a Value Added Reseller of Dassault Systèmes, don’t hesitate to register for the event, it is free!

Here are 10 reasons (but you’ll find many more if you join ) to be at the Partner Summit in DS Campus on June 25th:

- Assist to conferences held by Dassault Systèmes Execs
- Experience “business speed dating”!
- Meet DS Sales and Marketing leaders and establish business relationships
- Build Solution Communities for synergy and augmented value for joint customers
- Get feedback and inputs from partners
- Discover partner strategies of other DS entities
- Opportunity to meet our partner’s execs and leaders
- Discover DS Campus and experience the LIVES
- No extra travel cost if you attend the DEVCON
- Enjoy a visit of beautiful Paris!

As you can see, it’ll be all about community collaboration for mutual success during this year’s Partner Summit. Don’t hesitate anymore and register for free!

Anthony

OPTIS has announced that its 3D Textures application will soon be available into SPEOS CAA V5 Based, the CATIA V5 integrated version of OPTIS’s SPEOS light simulation software. SPEOS enables engineering designers to model complex integrated mechanical and optical engineering tasks seamlessly within CATIA V5.

Using 3D Textures For SPEOS CAA V5 Based, a designer can easily create tens of millions of modelled points on surfaces, directly inside CATIA V5, in view to manage the way light is propagated and comes to the final user’s eye.

With the integration of LED sources in more and more systems such automotive tail lamps, luminaire design, lit buttons and backlights in electronics including PDAs and mobile phones, it becomes necessary to generate 3D Textures motifs applied on complex compound surfaces.

SPEOS 3D Textures enables a 3D model to include tens of millions of patterns thanks to a memory requirement optimization (150Mb needed for 1 million patterns), a rapid loading time and fast simulation time (16min for 4 million patterns). It also offers fully optimised multithreaded and 64bit operation, which other packages cannot match.

3D Textures For SPEOS CAA V5 Based will offer advanced optical design capabilities, including modelling CAD patterns onto any possible CAD shape and surface and modelling based on mixing diverse materials of construction.

With this unique 3D Textures function, SPEOS CAA V5 Based will enable both improved design functionality and time-saving in challenging applications such as modelling backlit displays, and the latest designs of automotive lights.

The OPTIS Team

ELSYS comes up with innovative PLM Solutions in Electrical Engineering. That means a radically new way of handling and integrating electrical technology with the design and manufacture of electromechanical products and systems.

Because ELSYS’s solutions (CATELECTRE, SMARTELECTRE, ELECTRE) facilitate collaborative work between electrical and mechanical engineers, they highly improve their efficiency by taking complete charge of all aspects of the diversity and complexity of the systems, from onboard electrical engineering (functions, standards, etc.) and electromechanical engineering (3D routings, segregation, etc.) to project engineering (configuration management, manufacturing documents, etc.).

These solutions bring a high value added in all stages of the design process thanks to a thorough understanding of onboard electrical engineering needs and full allowance for the problems of 3D wiring in both design and manufacturing.

We are very happy to welcome our Belgo/French fellows onboard and hope they will help you to fullfil your needs in terms of electrical harness design.

Anthony and the Elsys team

This year, Dassault Systèmes helds its annual Developper Conference (aka DEVCON) at DS Campus, located in Vélizy-Villacoublay, near Paris in June 23-24, 2009.
With a new concept, this year's conference will be at the heart of the Labs, and be THE place for 3D developers and PLM engineers.

Dassault Systèmes’ DEVCON is a unique opportunity for you to meet DS and Partners’ experts. They will be glad to meet you and share their latest innovation.

DEVCON 2009 main topics will be:
• Fresh news on V6 and a preview of the upcoming release. Be prepared to install, deploy, develop on V6.
• Online strategy, products and services will be at the heart of Devcon09
• Round tables on future tech trends and how the 3D will leverage new devices and mobility.
• New partnership programs and communities
• Testimonials from new customers and partners, in the industries, online communities and serious gaming.

By the way, note that some of PLM MarketPlace partners will be there. Take a moment to meet them and discover the value added by their solutions!

Also, we're sure you'll enjoy an exciting visit in the LIVES!

If you want to keep in touch with the community, subscribe to the official DS DEVCON Twitter and join the official group on Facebook! stay tuned to get more details in the coming days!

I hope to see you in June @ DS Campus for this exciting event!

Anthony

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.