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www.sogeti.com - Dassault Systemes: Arnaud Malherbe, +33(0) 1 55 49 87 73 Press Relations arnaud.malherbe@3ds.com or Sogeti: Eric DELEAGE, +33 (0) 1 41 12 51 02 Marketing and Communication Director or Anne BAYLAC, +33 (0) 1 41 12 46 06 Press Relations or Sogeti, +33 (0) 1 58 44 55 66 Dassault Systemes (DS) (Nasdaq:

DASTY; Euronext Paris: #13065, DSY.PA), a world leader in 3D and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, and Sogeti Group, a member of the Capgemini Group, today announced that they have signed an industry solution alliance. By combining Dassault Systemes' products and solutions with Sogeti's expertise and skills in the high-technology consulting area, the companies will create industry-focused, best-practices offers to accelerate and secure PLM 2.0 deployments.

"As more companies are adopting PLM as a core system, the need for customized PLM solutions and services is increasing. We are proud to team with Dassault Systemes, a visionary company that has been in this business for over 25 years and is now a world leader in PLM activities and products," says Luc-Francois Salvador, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Sogeti Group.

"Sogeti is recognized as a leader in its field and has impressive knowledge and service offerings with high-level consulting engineering skills and expertise in many sectors. We welcome Sogeti as partner in our industry solution alliance program," says Bruno Latchague, EVP, PLM Business Transformation, Dassault Systemes.

As part of the first offering, Dassault Systemes and Sogeti have already begun targeting aerospace industry best practices. Today, aerospace OEMs and Tier 1 partners are facing difficulties quickly accomplishing master model creation and simulation within a fully associative process. This slows the design change process and often results in more human errors. The solution, called "Aircraft Structural Optimization", will address these issues as they occur during aircraft conception, and will support a high level of parametric modifications, as well as quick propagation to both geometry and analysis.

About Industry Solution Partner Program

Through strategic alliances with leading IT systems integrators, service providers and consulting firms, Dassault Systemes' Industry Solution partnerships provide industry-focused PLM solutions and services for critical customer business processes. This result in an industry-focuses PLM practices portfolio combining partner engineering skills and methodologies on DS PLM 2.0 portfolio to accelerate and secure PLM deployment.

About Dassault Systemes

As a world leader in 3D and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, Dassault Systemes brings value to more than 100,000 customers in 80 countries. A pioneer in the 3D software market since 1981, Dassault Systemes 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 Systemes 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. Dassault Systemes is listed on the Nasdaq (DASTY) and Euronext Paris (#13065, DSY.PA) stock exchanges. For more information, visit www.3ds.com

CATIA, DELMIA, ENOVIA, SIMULIA, SolidWorks and 3D VIA are registered trademarks of Dassault Systemes or its subsidiaries in the US and/or other countries.

ABOUT SOGETI GROUP

Sogeti Group (member of the Capgemini Group), leader in IT services and R&D outsourcing, offers a range of local professional services in High Tech Consulting and Information Technology for large companies through these three complementary areas:

- High Tech or High Tech Consulting

Research & Development with the maintenance in operational conditions:Outsourcing Research and Development and Innovation Advice.

Scientific and technical research and developments, mechanical design, development of complex systems.

Control and industrial data processing.

- Application Services or systems integration

From the conception to the maintenance of the information system: consulting, architecture, contracting owner's assistance, development, integration, testing and maintenance of application assets.

- Infrastructure Services or integration management and systems administration

Consulting in security and performance of the infrastructures of services IT and Telecom.

Supply of all the services indispensable to the rationalization, to the optimization and to the management of the IT structures. Integration of the architectures and of the exploitation, guaranteeing an optimal efficiency of the systems and networks.

In total, Sogeti Group has more than 18,000 professionals in 14 countries with 10,000 in France.

To accelerate and secure PLM deployments to industries' specific
practices