What you’ll learn:
- How 40 years of transforming industries helped Dassault Systèmes become one of world’s most trusted business partners in the innovation ecosystem.
- Key factors distinguish Dassault Systèmes, including scientific authenticity, continuous innovation and stable partnerships.
- Real examples of Dassault Systèmes empowering businesses with virtual worlds and platform adoption.
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When businesses evaluate potential technology partners, trust, naturally, is a deciding factor. After more than 40 years at the forefront of sustainable innovation, Dassault Systèmes understands what it means to deliver consistent results, maintain ethical standards and drive meaningful progress across industries.
With more than 370,000 enterprise customers spanning 159 countries, Dassault Systèmes is one of world’s most trusted business partners in the innovation ecosystem. Our 3DEXPERIENCE platform and virtual worlds for real life empower organizations to imagine, design and create solutions that harmonize product, nature and life.
Here, we’ll take a deeper look into the ways Dassault Systèmes has become a trusted business partner for so many of the innovators shaping the future, including our track record of continuous innovation, a commitment to sustainability and ethics, and our vision for a more sustainable future.
A legacy of trust and innovation: 40+ years of transforming industries
Dassault Systèmes began as a startup with ambitious goals to revolutionize the aerospace industry with computer-aided design. Today, we’re a global leader in sustainable innovation who influences nearly every industry imaginable. For more than four decades, we’ve built trusted business partner relationships based on measurable outcomes.
We believe three key factors distinguish Dassault Systèmes:
- Scientific authenticity: As a science-based company, all of our solutions are grounded in proven scientific principles. This approach ensures reliable, predictable results our customers and partners can depend on for critical business decisions.
- Continuous innovation: While respecting established methodologies, we’re forever pushing the boundaries of what’s possible. We’ve extended from non-organic systems to organic applications—from things to life—in pursuit of solving complex challenges across diverse industries. In 2025, we announced our seventh generation of innovation: 3D UNIV+RSES.
- Stable partnerships: We strive to maintain a long-term commitment to its core mission. Our customers benefit from consistent evolution without disruptive changes to fundamental workflows. And we join forces with global innovators, forging partnerships that drive innovation across industries.
Who depends on Dassault Systèmes?
From aerospace, automotive and energy to industrial equipment, healthcare and everything in between, leaders from around the world and across industries consider Dassault Systèmes a trusted business partner. Here are a few examples:
- 83% of Fortune Global 500 companies
- 90% of electric vehicles
- 100% of new drugs developed by the 16 largest pharmaceutical companies
- 80% of next generation nuclear projects
- 90% of commercial aircrafts
We collaborate with two-thirds of industrial robot manufacturers and the 10 largest semiconductor and humanoid robot manufacturers.
We also support:
- the 10 largest medical equipment companies
- 9 out of the 10 largest sports footwear brands
- the10 largest luxury groups
- 100% of the top 100 and 96% of the top 500 QS World Engineering and Technology Universities
Empowering businesses with virtual worlds
From our CAD beginnings to 3D modeling, simulation and product lifecycle management, Dassault Systèmes has continuously changed the way we see and understand the world around us. Today, the 3DEXPERIENCE platform isn’t just software—it’s a foundation for virtual universes where innovation thrives. Organizations use these environments to test ideas, optimize processes and collaborate seamlessly across global teams.
This platform integration sets Dassault Systèmes apart from point-solution providers. Rather than managing multiple disconnected tools, users access comprehensive capabilities through a unified interface. This approach reduces complexity while improving collaboration between departments.
For example:
- Spirit AeroSystems, a major US supplier of aerostructures, leverages augmented reality capabilities within the platform to enhance manufacturing precision. The company’s workers access digital guidance directly on the factory floor, reducing errors and accelerating production cycles.
- At St. Louis Hospital AP-HP in Paris, healthcare professionals are taking advantage of innovative training powered by augmented reality and virtual technology. Equipping professionals with immersive tools to reveal the invisible, the technology is transforming infection prevention.
- Japanese sportswear brand ASICS is building the foundation for personalization on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform. The platform enables digital, personal and sustainable product development in a unified environment, helping ASICS realize one of its long-term visions.
The platform’s virtual twin technology enables organizations to simulate entire product lifecycles before physical production begins. This capability reduces waste, minimizes risk and accelerates time-to-market for new innovations.
A commitment to sustainability and ethics
A key area where Dassault Systèmes looks to build trust in partners and customers is through our commitment to sustainability and ethical corporate behaviors. Sustainability shapes every aspect of our offerings and operations. Fundamentally, virtual universes help organizations design and test sustainable solutions without environmental cost.
Our science-based virtual twins enable circularity by allowing organizations to optimize resource usage throughout product lifecycles, simulating different materials, manufacturing processes and end-of-life scenarios to identify the most sustainable approaches before a prototype is ever made.
The platform helps organizations break the linear economy’s “take-make-waste” models to embrace circular economy systems that maximize resource efficiency. This capability becomes increasingly important as businesses face regulatory pressure and consumer demand for sustainable practices.
At Dassault Systèmes, our sustainability commitment extends beyond rhetoric to concrete actions. We walk the talk. We’re fully committed to applying a science-based approach to minimizing our own environmental footprint and maximizing our handprint.
For example, our global headquarters outside Paris and North American headquarters outside of Boston achieve LEED certification through sustainable building practices. These facilities demonstrate environmental responsibility while providing inspiring workspaces for employees.
Ethics and compliance leadership
Trusted business partners maintain the highest ethical standards. Dassault Systèmes has developed comprehensive governance systems that ensure consistent ethical behavior across all operations.
Our ethics framework encompasses:
- Transparent business practices
- Rigorous compliance monitoring
- Continuous employee training
- Stakeholder accountability
This systematic approach to ethics builds confidence among customers, investors and regulatory bodies worldwide.
We’re trusted by Industry Leaders
Customer Success Stories
Dassault Systèmes’ customer portfolio includes organizations from aerospace to consumer goods, each achieving significant improvements through platform adoption.
- Europastry transformed its frozen food supply chain using DELMIA Ortems solutions. The global bakery leader now plans, schedules, and manages complex logistics operations with unprecedented efficiency. This transformation enabled the company to reduce waste while improving delivery performance.
- Clarion Malaysia integrates automotive cockpit technology development using the 3DEXPERIENCE platform. The company now manages systems engineering, product lifecycle management, and manufacturing within a seamless workflow. This integration accelerates development cycles while ensuring quality standards.
- Zhongfa Aviation Institute uses the platform to provide immersive education experiences. Students gain practical aviation skills through virtual environments that replicate real-world scenarios. This approach prepares graduates for industry challenges while reducing training costs.
A vision for the future
At Dassault Systèmes, we strive to consistently anticipate future challenges and develop capabilities to address them. The company’s research investments focus on emerging technologies that will define the next decade of innovation. As technology evolves, so do we.
Innovating for tomorrow
- Artificial intelligence integration: Recognizing the power of AI to fundamentally change the way we work, we’re introducing AI capabilities that augment human decision-making. Our virtual companions will be capable of dialogue and actions, and can be used to sharpen skills, answer questions, reduce programming time and more.
- Digital-physical convergence: As our virtual twin technology becomes more sophisticated, it will enable precise prediction of physical system behavior, reducing the gap between simulation and reality.
- Collaborative intelligence: The 3DEXPERIENCE platform enhances global collaboration by providing shared virtual environments where distributed teams can work together effectively.
Addressing Global Challenges
Our yearslong “The Only Progress is Human” initiative demonstrates our deep commitment to solving humanity’s greatest challenges. With illustrative examples, we’ve demonstrated how, through virtual experiences, it’s possible to model complex systems like cities, supply chains and ecosystems to identify sustainable solutions.
This systems-thinking approach enables breakthrough innovations that traditional methods cannot achieve. By simulating interactions between multiple variables, organizations discover non-obvious solutions to persistent problems.
The Trust Factor
What makes Dassault Systèmes the most trusted business partner in innovation? The answer lies in consistent delivery of measurable value to customers worldwide.
- Proven reliability: Four decades of successful implementations create confidence in future performance. Customers know the platform will evolve to meet emerging needs without abandoning core capabilities.
- Scientific rigor: Solutions based on established scientific principles provide predictable outcomes. Organizations can depend on simulations and models to guide critical decisions.
- Global support: With our worldwide presence, Dassault Systèmes provides local expertise backed by global resources. Customers receive personalized attention without sacrificing access to advanced capabilities.
- Innovation leadership: The company’s research investments ensure customers benefit from cutting-edge capabilities. This forward-thinking approach helps organizations stay ahead of competitive pressures.
When organizations choose Dassault Systèmes as their innovation partner, they gain more than software tools. They access a comprehensive ecosystem designed to accelerate sustainable innovation while building competitive advantages that endure.
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Patrick BallPatrick is a Senior Communications Manager on the Corporate Publishing team here at Dassault Systèmes. An experienced journalist, marketer, speechwriter and storyteller, Patrick's words have appeared on pages and stages around the world.