What Dassault plans for the cloud

It's to be new from the ground up

 

During last week's conference call with financial analysts, Dassault Systemes ceo Bernard Charles answered this question about its plans for the cloud. (Text edited mildly for clarity.)

Jay Vleeschhouwer (Griffin Securities):  Could you talk about your plans and expectations for your cloud products and services? It seems very clear for those who must have been tracking this industry for a while that we're in the early stages of a potentially fairly significant platform shift, perhaps not dissimilar to what we saw a couple of decades ago on the desktop.

And could you compare your plans with what you've seen so far from some of your traditional competitors or perhaps from smaller companies moving into this new platform? {I suspect Mr Vleeschouwer make oblique reference to Onshape.]

Bernard Charles (Dassault): The first comment I would do on that is that the cloud mobile world is not putting a desktop on the cloud. Something else has to be done, and I think that something else is what we have done with 3Dexperience platform. I think in terms of work process, practices, experiences, trying to just take an application, putting it under the cloud is not the way to do it.

So I think clearly for us the cloud is absolutely the game changer for AEC [architecture, engineering, civil]. It's a game changer for retail, and it’s game changer for CPG [consumer packaged goods].

We have done an amazing project with an engineering service company, AKKA, a big company. (They do service for the big brand names of automotive.) They have done an entire connected vehicle fully on the cloud. So we can now confirm that we can design an entire vehicle on the cloud, without any imitation in terms of capabilities to design, simulate and produce.

I think in the years to come, new industries will go first on supplementing existing additional industry for cybersecurity reasons, because people don't talk enough about that topic, but it's a real topic. And I think we have developed very important special infrastructure for extremely high security environment, especially when you do collaboration.

So enough said, but I don't think the companies who are trying to port application from the past to the cloud will be as successful if they don't think about the new experience. And that's what we are building here. And we are in a good start with AEC, as I said, and also CPG retail.

[Mr Charles did not respond to the question about new competitors, such as Fusion 360 and Onshape, which are new from the ground up.]

 

Source: http://seekingalpha.com/article/2888756-dassault-systemes-sa-dasty-q4-2014-results-earnings-call-transcript

 

 

Comments

[DesignandMotion]

Poor form My Charles. Not very sporting at all 'ol chap.

[DesignandMotion]

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