This week on upFront.eZine: How Dassault Systemes Achieved Success

Issue #828

 

In this week's issue of upFront.eZine, Dassault Systemes co-founder Francis Bernard describes how in the early 1980s the young company developed the top-down approach to selling the brand-new 3D CAD software, CATIA. 

You can read all about the business of CAD at www.upfrontezine.com/2014/upf-828.htm.

 

 

Comments

[Kevin De Smet]

They should stop living in the past. They've achieved great things and everyone gets that, but they can't let up. I don't see a very rosey future for Dassault in the face of their primary competitor.

[Ralph Grabowski]

In the last year or two, Dassault pulled ahead of Autodesk in terms of revenues, and with each quarter widens the lead.

[Kevin De Smet]

I was referring to Siemens PLM, in the midrange (if you can still call it that) with an ever impressive growing SolidEdge, as well as highend markets with Tc and NX. Not to mention some strong niche markets that acquisitions like Vistagy and LMS got them effectively into.