Dassault Systemes? SMARTEAM Provides Product Lifecycle Collaboration Solutions on IBM?s DB2 Database Software

IBM, Dassault Systemes and SMARTEAM has announced that SMARTEAM?s Product Lifecycle Collaboration solutions have been enabled to interoperate with IBM?s DB2 database software creating a powerful platform for comprehensive Product Lifecycle Management (PLM).

The potent combination of SmarTeam and IBM?s DB2 will provide users with a competitively priced, integrated solution that will reduce time and simplify the installation, administration, configuration and maintenance of product lifecycle management (PLM) environments.

"Today?s announcement is another example of leading application developers choosing to standardise on IBM?s DB2 database as their preferred deployment platform,? said Lauren Flaherty, vice president of marketing, IBM Data Management Solutions . ?The combination of DB2 and SmarTeam provides customers with significant performance improvements at the lowest cost of ownership for product lifecycle management applications.?

"IBM's DB2 solutions are a distinct standard in data management and will be attractive to our expanding customer base," said Tanya Epstein, Executive Vice-President, Research and Development, SMARTEAM. "By providing IBM?s DB2 database software with SmarTeam solutions, our customers can now focus their deployment activities on developing and delivering innovative products to their markets knowing that their product data resides within a proven data management environment.?

The SMARTEAM suite of market-leading Product Lifecycle Collaboration solutions provides enterprises of all sizes a broad range of integrated, web-centric, business process solutions covering all aspects of product lifecycle support, and integrating with supply chain management, enterprise resource planning, and other business process management applications. Developed in conjunction with innovative industry-leading customers, and integrating best-in-class business practices for product development management, the SMARTEAM integrated solutions capture, promote, and support these best practices throughout the extended enterprise.

As the foundation for e-business, IBM?s DB2 is the industry's first multimedia, Web-ready relational database management system, strong enough to meet the demands of large corporations and flexible enough to serve medium-sized and small e-businesses. IBM?s DB2 combines integrated power for business intelligence, content management, enterprise information portals and e-business with industry-leading performance and reliability to drive the most demanding industry solutions. DB2 Universal Database together with Internet technology makes information easily accessible, available and secure. There are more than 60 million DB2 users from over 450,000 companies worldwide relying on IBM data management solutions. For more information please visit http://www.software.ibm.com/data.

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NOTES TO EDITORS

1. Founded in 1995, SMARTEAM develops and markets rapidly-implemented, yet totally customisable, collaborative product commerce (CPC) that drive efficiency, quality and responsiveness for customer centric organisations and their value chains. SMARTEAM is one of the fastest-growing companies in the data management market with a broad solutions portfolio that enables manufacturing organisations and their supply chains to efficiently manage and collaborate on product information from concept through realisation. SMARTEAM's solutions help companies gain improvements in product quality, reduce costs, expedite project turnaround, comply with industry standards and shorten time-to-market.

2. As an independent subsidiary of Dassault Systèmes (France), SMARTEAM is able to pursue its open systems multi-CAD strategy while still enjoying the backing of one of the industry?s largest players. It has offices in the USA, Taiwan, France, Germany, Italy, UK and headquarters in Israel. The UK office at Borehamwood is the European headquarters supporting UK, Benelux, Scandinavia, Spain, Portugal and Eastern Europe. SMARTEAM is able to provide a comprehensive support network for over 150 resellers which, in the UK, includes Cadtek, Design Rule, Envisage, Solid Applications and Matra Datavision.

3. The company's client list numbers more than 1800 companies worldwide. There are 350 in Europe, 90 in the UK and include: Chubb Fire, Raleigh Industries, Delphi Diesel Systems, ABB, Allgon, Buhler, Braundt, Philips and Siemens.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Yael Peleg                                            
Marketing Manager                                
SMARTEAM Europe                        
Kinetic Centre                                    
Theobald Street                                    
Borehamwood
Herts WD6 4PJ
Tel: 0208 387 1325                                
E-mail: Yaelp@smarteam.com                
SMARTEAM can also be reached on its website: www.smarteam.com