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Dassault Systemes (Dassault Systèmes S.A.) (Pronounced - Dasoh) (NASDAQ: DASTY; Euronext: 13065) is a leading company specializing in 3D and PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) software. Dassault Systèmes develops and markets PLM application software and services that support industrial processes and provide a 3D vision of the entire lifecycle of products from conception to maintenance to recycling. The Dassault Systèmes portfolio consists of CATIA for designing the virtual product - SolidWorks for 3D mechanical design - DELMIA for virtual production - SIMULIA for virtual testing - ENOVIA for global collaborative lifecycle management, and 3DVIA for online 3D lifelike experiences. NASDAQ in Times Square, New York City. ... Euronext N.V. is a pan-European stock exchange based in Paris[1] and with subsidiaries in Belgium, France, Netherlands, Portugal and the United Kingdom. ... Product Lifecycle Management Programming language something of a PL/1 derivative with instructions added for direct control of the system hardware. ... Product lifecycle management (PLM) is the process of managing the entire lifecycle of a product from its conception, through design and manufacture, to service and disposal. ... Computer software (or simply software) refers to one or more computer programs and data held in the storage of a computer for some purpose. ...
It was created in 1981, and is part of the Groupe Industriel Marcel Dassault. Year 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link displays the 1981 Gregorian calendar). ... Groupe Industriel Marcel Dassault S.A., (GIMD, Groupe Dassault, or the Dassault Group) is a French group of companies led by Serge Dassault. ...
Shareholders: ABAQUS is a commercial software package for finite element analysis. ... ENOVIA MatrixOne or MatrixOne is a provider of Internet business collaboration software. ... Spatial Corporation was founded in 1986, and had one main product: ACIS, the first commercially available 3D modeling kernel. ... SolidWorks Corporation is a US-based software company. ... Virtools is a software developer and vendor, created in 1993 and owned by Dassault Systemes since July 2005. ...
Dassault Systèmes today announced an agreement to acquire ABAQUS, the established leader in nonlinear finite element analysis software, in an all-cash transaction approximating $413 million.
Dassault Systèmes expects the planned acquisition to be immediately accretive to net income, excluding acquisition costs and the impact of deferred revenue accounting treatment.
Dassault Systèmes expects that the proposed acquisition could be completed by the end of its third fiscal quarter.