Partnership to Extend Dassault Systèmes’ Collaborative Innovation
with Enterprise Social Media Software
Dassault Systèmes (DS) (Paris:DSY) (NASDAQ:DASTY), a world leader
in 3D and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions and blueKiwi
Software, pioneer of Enterprise Social Software, today announced a
strategic alliance. As part of the agreement, blueKiwi Software will
benefit from Dassault Systèmes’ technology and wordwide presence.
Dassault Systèmes has also taken a minority stake in blueKiwi Software.
Today, blueKiwis’ proven software platform helps manage secure social
networks with partners, customers and colleagues. Its
software-as-a-service offering brings a flexible and cost-efficient
solution to customers while integrating familiar Web 2.0 services, such
as wikis, blogs, forums, RSS and tagging.
The blueKiwi conversation-centric solution perfectly complements
Dassault Systèmes’ Social Innovation vision and V6 platform: The use of
social networking in the professional world will revolutionize the way
people work and interact. Today’s announcement illustrates Dassault
Systèmes’ and blueKiwis’ joint believe in Social Innovation as a new way
for industries to transform their business, improve performance and
achieve sustainable development. A recent Gartner report confirmed this
tendency as it forecasts the enterprise social software market to grow
by 24.4% throughout 2010.
PLM Analyst Jim Brown, President Tech-Clarity confirms: “Social
computing and Web 2.0 capabilities draw more innovative ideas and people
into your product innovation, product development, and engineering
processes. Social computing capabilities like chat, presence detection,
threaded discussion and unified communication can help better enable
companies to collaborate.”
“The current business environment reveals a growing disconnect between
consumer requirements and available products, between employees and
their companies. The new consumer buying behavior, as well as different
employee working experiences, create new needs and require businesses to
adapt. Social Innovation is about connecting individuals, ideas and
virtual experiences, and leveraging social networking capabilities. We
have imagined online services in order to connect both worlds, thus
enabling people to become participants in the innovation processes,
either in their role as a consumer or as an employee.” said Bernard
Charlès, President and CEO, Dassault Systemes. “blueKiwi technology
facilitates business social networking by using simple and
easy-to-implement tools.
