What Is Dassault Systèmes?
Dassault Systèmes helps improve real life with virtual worlds.
Through our science-based solutions, we bring virtual twin experiences to everyone - including you! We’re proud to be a sustainable company that helps people and businesses sustainably bring new ideas to life.
From a Startup to a Global Company
Ours is a story of a humble startup that has grown into a multinational presence to provide science-based solutions to sustainably transform both the organic and inorganic world.
We’re a catalyst for sustainable, game-changing human progress.
Our journey began in 1981 with 20 engineers supporting the aerospace industry through one brand: CATIA. Today, more than 23,800 employees are driven by a shared passion: to prove how the virtual world can improve real life.
We’re not just a software company. We’re a science-based, technology-powered solutions provider focused on improving human experience. Our 13 brands provide 3D Design, Digital Mock-Up (DMU) Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and more to accompany players across the globe to develop novel approaches for green logistics, product durability, waste reduction and more.
Since 2020, we extended our impact in the life sciences and healthcare industry with science-based virtual twin experiences of the human body to help our clients enhance medical decisions and improve patient journeys.
Virtual Worlds for Real Life
The virtual world can help us improve the real one. In the virtual world, we can simulate and evaluate the impact of our actions before making them real. This offers innovators the flexibility to explore their ideas freely and create while keeping people and the environment top of mind from the very start.
All about us in 30 Seconds
Here’s our pitch to you: If you’ve got an idea for absolutely anything, from a prosthetic leg to your dream motorbike to a way to make your city more sustainable, you can work with our solutions to design it, model it, simulate it, test it, manufacture it and even market it. Our solutions can help you bring your vision to life!
Look Around You… We’re Everywhere!
From life sciences and healthcare, to cities and infrastructure, to manufacturing and beyond, we’re part of every second of your life - and today, you get to learn how.
Our firm belief is that The Only Progress is Human. We offer the 3DEXPERIENCE platform to empower individuals as well as companies to create sustainable products and services that meet our world’s biggest challenges. Only by putting human experience and people at the center of the innovation process can we advance together as a global community.
From this comes our ambition: to tackle the challenges we face everyday, and get closer to a world that harmonizes product, nature and life.
Understand Dassault Systèmes Better
Now that you’ve got the basics, let’s dive deeper!
What Does Dassault Systèmes Do?
We like to say that our products touch nearly everything in your life. One way to learn more about the breadth of our activities is to keep up with the latest happenings on our blog.
What does Dassault Systèmes sell?
We sell the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, which is comprised of products from our 13 brands that create great user experiences and build vibrant user communities.
Are Dassault Aviation and Dassault Systèmes the Same Company?
Dassault Aviation and Dassault Systèmes are two distinct and separate companies. And just like Dassault Aviation, we are part of the Dassault Group.
Did You Know
The virtual worlds we develop are the digital twins of the real world. Our virtual twins are rooted firmly in science, and possess the same properties you’ll find in the physical world.
Adidas uses our solutions to design better running shoes!
90% of cars in the world are engineered and/or built with our collaborative solutions.
We Are More Than a Software Provider
Almost everything around you is enabled in some way by us.
The 3DEXPERIENCE platform is the backbone of a company’s product development.
A Game-Changer for Business and Innovation
Dassault Systèmes is innovation-driven. In 2012 we embraced transformation by shifting from a software company to an experience company. What does that mean? We provide our customers not just with products but with services and content that focus on improving end-user experience. We designed our 3DEXPERIENCE platform as a collaborative environment that empowers people and businesses to innovate in entirely new ways.
The 3DEXPERIENCE platform empowers next-generation innovators to enhance the real world through the virtual world: Creating, designing and testing the new experiences needed to create and maintain a sustainable economy from idea to market delivery to usage.
The platform, available both on cloud and on-premise, provides organizations with a holistic, real-time view of their business activity and ecosystem, connecting people, ideas, data and solutions together in a single environment.
Our 3DEXPERIENCE platform Caters to the Needs of Different Industries
Sustainably transform industries, markets and customer experience
Every day, both individuals and companies ranging from startups to the world’s largest enterprises turn industry challenges into business opportunities thanks to the 3DEXPERIENCE platform.
Discover how Dassault Systèmes has helped companies in your industry improve their products, boost their efficiency and reduce costs – all while keeping sustainable practices at the forefront.
Explore our portfolio
Our portfolio of solutions comprises all stages of production, from brainstorming to design to delivery.
We provide 3D modeling, generative design, model-based systems engineering, and simulation applications.
We are experts in creating science-based virtual twins of products, processes and supply chains.
We revolutionize workflows thanks to our social, collaborative and information intelligence applications.
Our Mission and Values Guide Everything We Do
For the past 40+ years, Dassault Systèmes has touched the world by enabling breakthroughs that have impacted human-kind. As these transformative innovations continue, and we shift our focus from things to life, our mission remains the same.
Our Mission
We enable sustainable economic and social innovations to help improve the world. We believe that The Only Progress is Human and virtual twin experiences fuel this progress by offering unlimited potential to drive human-centric progress.
Our Values
Our values are driven by a shared ambition: to make a lasting, positive impact on society. We help people build a questioning mindset that we call IFWE: “IF” refers to our passion to explore new possibilities and “WE” is our belief that, by connecting people, we can bring positive change.
We are Growing Under the Guidance and Leadership of Talented Minds
As the global leader in sustainable innovation, Dassault Systèmes is led by an inspiring group of leaders who are driven to execute our long-term vision of addressing the globe’s major challenges.
The Only Progress is Human
Through a multi-year initiative, Dassault Systèmes is shedding light on 10 major challenges the world is facing, inviting the world to discover how innovation plays a key role in addressing humanity’s needs.
For each challenge, we respond with an act. Each act symbolizes and highlights our commitment to meet these ten challenges, and to inspire others to act in their own spheres. Though no one solution is sufficient on its own, when innovations are made by people, for people, they can lead to real progress, and change the world.
Our Virtual Twins Help Build a Better Future
We are changing the rules of the game to make a positive impact on society.
We are at the Forefront of Innovation
Dassault Systèmes ranks on Forbes magazine’s list of the world’s 100 most innovative companies.
Ranked in the Top 100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the World
by Corporate Knights
We improve CITIES FOR PEOPLE
We empower governments to make the right decisions to improve the experiences of citizens, using the 3DEXPERIENCE platforrm to create virtual twin experiences of cities.
We impact PERSONALIZED HEALTHCARE
Powerful knowledge results when we can visualize, test, understand and predict what cannot be seen. Our mission: to invent the virtual twin of the human body to advance precision medicine.
We transform MANUFACTURING BUSINESSES
The manufacturing industry needs to embrace new, more sustainable approaches, materials and business models to meet the demands of today and create a better tomorrow.
Questions? Get in Touch!
No matter where your business operates in the world, Dassault Systèmes is there to support you in your innovative projects.
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