Tata Technologies, IBM and Dassault Systèmes Join Forces to Meet Growing Demand for PLM Solutions in India

Objective: Deliver Solutions and Services to Help Indian Manufacturers Streamline Production Processes

IBM and Dassault Systèmes today announced an agreement with Tata Technologies Limited, India's leading provider of engineering and design services to the automotive and aerospace industries, to expand marketing, sales, and services of their Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions. Under the terms of the agreement, Tata Technologies becomes an IBM Business Partner and a Dassault Systèmes Services Provider and Education Partner.

With support and certification from Dassault Systèmes, Tata Technologies will create a PLM Competency Center to provide demonstrations, training, technical support, and software application customization of IBM PLM Solutions.

IBM PLM Solutions, comprised of CATIA, ENOVIA and SMARTEAM collaborative product development and data management applications developed by Dassault Systèmes, help manufacturers of all types innovate, improve product quality, and reduce both costs and product development times. They also help companies collaborate internally, across geographic boundaries and with suppliers.

As an IBM Business Partner, Tata Technologies will sell and support IBM PLM Solutions to manufacturers throughout India, including Tata Motors and its suppliers.

Tata Technologies will play a key role in transforming the existing manufacturing platform of Tata Technologies' sister company Tata Motors to a collaborative 3D development environment using IBM PLM Solutions that will link all of the company's product, process and resource data, as well as its development and manufacturing teams.

"As the largest user of CATIA in India, this agreement gives Tata Technologies deep access to Dassault technologies and internals to allow us to provide our customers the most appropriate, advanced and cost effective solutions to meet their increased engineering needs," said Patrick
McGoldrick, Managing Director, Tata Technologies. "Our customers are looking to obtain significant savings in time to market by adopting CATIA V5, PLM and knowledge-based engineering."

"Our global customers now have a benchmark by which they can assure themselves of the quality of our engineering and design services," said Jeff Sage, Chief Operating Officer, Tata Technologies. "India's economy is booming and this agreement is an important landmark in our efforts to respond to growing customer demand with the world's most advanced PLM software solutions, best practices, and consulting services."

"By teaming with Tata Technologies, we now give our clients in India, including Tata Motors and its suppliers, greater access to IBM's extensive experience and leadership in implementing integrated PLM solutions," said Raoul van Engelshoven, vice president, IBM Product Lifecycle Management, Asia Pacific.

"Joining forces with India's leading engineering and design services company exemplifies IBM's commitment to delivering world-class solutions and services to all of our global markets. Together, we will help manufacturers in India drive productivity and efficiency and ultimately improve their competitive positioning in the global marketplace," van Engelshoven continued.

"With this strategic agreement, Tata Technologies can offer companies in India the competitive advantage gained using our PLM solutions," said Francis Bernard, Advisor to the President, Dassault Systèmes. "Through our Version 5 (V5) Development Service Provider agreement, Dassault Systèmes will assist Tata Technologies to fulfill its software customization service activity based on our V5 architecture."

About Tata Technologies Limited

Tata Technologies Limited is India's leader in providing Engineering and Design (E&D) services to the world's largest automotive and aerospace companies. Tata Technologies creates value for its customers by combining state-of-the-art technologies with a real-world understanding of engineering and manufacturing processes, to bring down costs and reduce time to market. Tata Technologies' 1500 engineers and consultants work at customer sites globally or offshore at the Centre for Advanced Engineering & Design (CAE&D), at the Pune InfoTech Park. The company is headquartered in Pune, India with offices in US, Europe and Asia Pacific. For Tata Technologies on the web, visit http://www.tatatechnologies.com

Christopher P. Sciacca
Strategic Communications, Manager
IBM Product Lifecycle Management

KollabNet Opens Office in Lancaster, PA; Redesigns Website

KollabNet has opened a new office at 1910 Fruitville Pike, Lancaster, PA 17601. The company’s executive offices, as well as sales and development, are headquartered at that location. “Having our main office in Lancaster underscores our excellent relationship with the Ben Franklin Partnership, one of our two initial investors,” said Dr. Joel Orr, KollabNet’s VP of business development.

“We are open for business, and actively seeking a small number of pilot projects with large manufacturing firms,” said Igal Kaptsan, VP of product management. “Our Knowledge Accounting™ software is ready to start providing large and medium-size manufacturing enterprises with unprecedented productivity and profitability gains within days of its installation!”

KollabNet produces enterprise software for automating the conceptual phase of mechanical design. Integrating seamlessly with office productivity applications, as well as with CAD, PDM, and CAE systems, it is the “knowledge glue” that can make PLM a reality for your company.

Visit www.kollabnet.com. Write info@kollabnet.com or call 717-560-9580 with questions.

This press release can also be found at http://www.kollabnet.com/pr5-11-2004.htm.

ENOVIA Corp. and Galaxia Inc. Form CAA V5 Software Partnership for Enterprise Collaborative Business Process Management Applications

Galaxia solutions for enterprise collateral business processes to enhance ENOVIA

Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and decision support solutions provider ENOVIA Corp., a Dassault Systèmes company (NASDAQ: DASTY: Euronext Paris: #13065, DSY.PA), today announced the signing of an ENOVIA Component Application Architecture V5 (CAA V5) software partnership with Galaxia Inc., a leading provider of enterprise business process management and business process integration solutions.

The partnership further expands what ENOVIA V5 PLM customers can accomplish using the Galaxia ePCM solutions. The Galaxia application acts as a global business process federator to integrate and monitor various enterprise local business processes. It supports application integration using connectors to other enterprise applications like ERP, SCM and PLM. This end-to-end enterprise process workflow integration enhances existing ENOVIA products enabling customers to respond faster to market needs, and adapt faster to changes in supply and demand.

ENOVIA LCA, with Galaxia, will deliver key functionalities that customers have recognized as critical components in achieving an extended enterprise PLM solution: rapid modeling and simulation of business processes; logical integration and connection of people, processes, and enterprise applications across the extended enterprise; plus efficient monitoring and management of the product development business processes improving overall business performance.

As part of this partnership Galaxia will deliver its ePCM solution and off-the-shelf connectors to SAP, Metaphase and other enterprise systems on top of the ENOVIA CAA V5 infrastructure, leveraging IBM Websphere middleware, and deliver a set of comprehensive process-centric solutions. For example, an enterprise process like a change request scenario could involve engineering, manufacturing and other enterprise/business systems. A change request originating from an enterprise user could trigger workflows in engineering (ENOVIA), manufacturing (DELMIA) and finance/business (SAP).

Galaxia ePCM, built on V5, provides capabilities to manage this enterprise process from definition through deployment, including execution and measurement, managing exceptions, change and redevelopment, and integration with the product lifecycle. Galaxia solutions are Web-based and allow for easy collaboration between various locations in the company and suppliers throughout the extended enterprise. It expands the ENOVIA CAA V5 portfolio and suite of solutions to better serve enterprise and industry specific needs and requirements.

“This partnership leverages the core competencies of both our companies to provide a unique, end-to-end solution for Enterprise PLM/SRM Collateral Business Processes,” said Stephane Declee, vice president, Research and Development, ENOVIA Corp. He continued, “Leveraging the ENOVIA open architecture, the Galaxia ePCM solution enables global collaboration across heterogeneous applications and processes, leading to dramatic reduction in time-to-market and greater ROI for all customers.”

“We believe that this partnership provides significant benefits to our customers’ enterprise, engineering, and manufacturing strategy,” said Abdellah Hoummady, CEO of Galaxia Inc. “Galaxia ePCM offers a set of tools and application templates to facilitate a fast deployment and rapid product delivery. Our customers will be able to monitor their business performance in real time and react to change quickly and effectively.”

About Galaxia Inc.

Galaxia is a leading provider of enterprise Business Process Management solutions and a certified IBM Business Partner with proven expertise in the industrial service sectors including aerospace, automotive, transportation, banking and insurance, and energy. Galaxia offers business process analysis, business process modeling, process-centric integration and automation, enterprise application integration, and Web application development.

About ENOVIA Corp.
ENOVIA Corp. provides integrated solutions for product data and lifecycle management, collaboration, and decision support. ENOVIA® solutions enable companies to simulate the entire product lifecycle from initial concept to after-market support. ENOVIA transforms the customer’s product development organization into a source of competitive advantage with increased support for complex product design, and a practical Web environment to bring marketing, sales and customers earlier into the product development cycle. ENOVIA Corp. is a Dassault Systèmes company. ENOVIA is integrated with Dassault Systèmes’ PLM solutions (CATIA®, DELMIA®, and SMARTEAM®) and is sold and supported by IBM. For more information, visit http://www.enovia.com

About the CAA V5 Software Community Program

CAA V5 (Component Application Architecture) is Dassault Systèmes’ open middleware and development environment for PLM. The CAA V5 Software Community Program is dedicated to ISV (Independent Software Vendors) willing to develop, sell and support CAA V5-based applications, fully integrated with CATIA, ENOVIA and DELMIA V5. This collaboration results in the expansion of Dassault Systèmes' 3D PLM solutions to cover the entire product lifecycle range, thus enabling mutual customers to take advantage of a larger set of products in response to their specific industrial needs. Spatial is the primary channel for marketing, sales and support/services for CAA V5. Information about CAA V5 is available at http://www.caav5.com

About Dassault Systèmes

As world leader in PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) solutions, the Dassault Systèmes group brings value to more than 70,000 customers in 80 countries. A pioneer in the 3D software market since 1981, Dassault Systèmes develops and markets PLM application software and services that support industrial processes and provide a 3D vision of the entire life cycle of products from conception to maintenance. Its offering includes integrated PLM solutions for product development (CATIA®, ENOVIA®, DELMIA®, SMARTEAM®), mainstream product design tools (SolidWorks), and 3D components (ACIS®) from Spatial Corp. Dassault Systèmes is listed on the NASDAQ (DASTY) and Euronext Paris (#13065, DSY.PA) stock exchanges.