This is the time for us to share our third set of success stories involving our resellers. Today, we'd like to remind you four of them published in the Spring 2011 issue of our ContactMag. Among all the stories, four of them involve a reseller part of the PLM MarketPlace program. Take a few minutes to read them, we're sure you'll learn something from it .

Blu Homes rethinks green design with CATIA and 3DVIA

Blu Homes needed 3D design and visualization tools that supported its goals of building quality, green, affordable prefabricated homes with a high level of buyer personalization. Blu Homes chose CATIA and 3DVIA from Dassault Systèmes to help realize its vision of making the homebuilding process more predictable, affordable and enjoyable. Our local reseller, Mecanica "has been a highly valuable partner in helping us to locate and use the right DS products for our needs" says the customer.

Read the Blu Homes / Dassault Systèmes / Mecanica success story...

Designing energy-producing underwater kites with CATIA PLM Express

Minesto uses CATIA to design innovative tidal energy solutions. The flexibility and rapidity with which it can create its designs enables Minesto to show potential customers design variations based on their requirements. Compared to its previous CAD system, model size is no longer a problem, allowing Minesto to work on complex models and assemblies of its products. Thanks to Semcon, our reseller, Minesto was able to "accelerate the learning curve of CATIA".

Read the Minesto / Dassault Systèmes / Semcon success story

Asco transforms its business model with ENOVIA V6

A major player in the design and manufacture of high precision aerospace parts, Asco will migrate from ENOVIA SmarTeam V5 to ENOVIA Version 6 (V6) in order to streamline industrial processes, optimize collaboration across its three global sites, and enable it to become a key V6 partner in the aviation industry. Keonys, one of our major reseller in Europe is "guiding Asco through this PDM V5 to PLM V6 transition process in order to speed up their transformation".

Read the Asco / Dassault Systèmes / Keonys success story

Automobile supplier Hella optimizes its processes with V6

Hella KGaA Hueck & Co., a long-time CATIA user since the mid-1980s, investigated adopting adopting Dassault Systèmes V6 solutions early in 2010. Through a series of workshops, together with Dassault Systèmes and Transcat PLM GmbH, Hella evaluated Version 6 (V6) both from a strategic and methodological point of view.

Read the Hella / Dassault Systèmes / Transcat PLM success story

As you can see, our resellers are able to work for various industries and help our customers design better products and being more efficient. They play a key role in terms of consulting, deployment and evolution of your PLM configuration.

Anthony Rosendo

We continue our Summer reading today with a success story in the field of life sciences. Life sciences industry is facing huge challenges and PLM solutions from Dassault Systèmes and its partners can help in many ways.

A-dec is one of the largest producers of dental equipment in the world. In order to satisfy the growing demand from customers, A-dec needed to automatize its dental cabinetry design and production. This was possible thanks to the use of Dassault Systèmes solutions (including CATIA and ENOVIA SmarTeam) and Microsoft .net.

We had the opportunity to meet some of the PLM MarketPlace partners during these two days (AMD, CENIT, Coastal Logic, DPS, Magestic Systems, Simulayt). This was a great time for all of us to exchange ideas about the future of the program. During the plenary session of the first day, CENIT and Simulayt highlighted the benefits of the PLM MarketPlace program for both them and our joint customers.

The great news is that 3DS VARs and customers can expect more solutions to be referenced on the PLM MarketPlace in the very near future. Their availability will be announced on the homepage and our different online channels, so stay tuned!

After the announcement of the 3DStore, many people present at the event asked us if it was going to replace the PLM MarketPlace. Well, in fact, as you may know, PLM MarketPlace was launched 6 years ago. During these years, we have all learned a lot about e-business, e-marketing, online stores,… When 3DS decided to launch its App Store, we decided to capitalize on all the knowledge acquired through the PLM MarketPlace program. So, in a way, there is a little bit of PLM MarketPlace in the 3DStore today . Regarding the future, of course, both programs will converge to offer always more solutions to customers and the best user experience! For the time being, PLM MarketPlace remains the place for our Partners to showcase their solutions and our VARs to offer them to our customers. Nevertheless, you will be updated on the future of the program on a regular basis. We've got some very great stuff waiting for you!

For those of you who attended this first Dassault Systèmes Application Innovation Summit, did you enjoy it? Did you leave it with new ideas in mind and new business perspectives? Share your feedback, we'd love to know your impressions!

Anthony Rosendo