Dassault Systèmes

Paris, France, Charlotte, NC (USA), Tokyo, Japan - July 30, 2002 - Dassault Systemes (Nasdaq: DASTY, Euronext Paris #13065, DSY.PA), today announced that Ned Smith has joined ENOVIA Corp. as Vice President, Sales and Business Development for Asia Pacific. Mr. Smith will be based out of the Dassault Systemes K.K. offices in Tokyo, Japan. <br/>

Mr. Smith is responsible for sales and market development of the ENOVIA and SMARTEAM brands in Asia Pacific. He will team with IBM and IBM Business Partners to develop new strategic opportunities and accounts, promote value propositions around 3D Product Life Cycle Management (3D PLM), and establish and drive alliances with business partners for extended development of the targeted market throughout Asia Pacific. Mr. Smith reports to Joel Lemke, ENOVIA Corp. chief executive officer.<br/>

Before joining ENOVIA Corp., Mr. Smith held several Asia-specific business development positions with Commerce One (Japan), Nasan Group, Inc. (Korea), International Data Corporation (Hong Kong), and International Atoire Corporation (Japan). He holds Bachelor of Arts degrees from the University of Minnesota and Koran University in Kobe, Japan.

Dassault Systemes is the premier global software developer for the CAD/CAM/CAE/PLM market, providing companies with e-business solutions to implement their digital enterprise, thus creating and simulating the entire product life cycle from initial concept to product in service. CATIA, ENOVIA and DELMIA Solutions support industry-specific business processes to help unleash creativity and innovation, reduce development cycle time, improve quality, competitiveness and shareholder value: CATIA supports the digital product definition and simulation, DELMIA provides solutions to define and simulate lean digital manufacturing processes and ENOVIA delivers enterprise solutions that manage a comprehensive, collaborative and distributed model of the digital product, processes and resources. The combined integration creates the Digital Product life cycle Pipeline, supporting reuse of corporate knowledge. SolidWorks and SmarTeam Corp., as Dassault Systemes companies, offer respectively 3D design-centric and collaborative PDM software solutions based on Windows and the Internet. Spatial, also part of the Dassault Systemes family, is a market-leading provider of world-class 3D software components and services (for 3D modeling, visualization, and interoperability) to meet the requirements of 3D in Internet-based e-commerce and B2B applications.

Information about Dassault Systemes is available at - http://www.3ds.com