Partner Press Release
SmarTeam Joins RosettaNet

RosettaNet Members Committed to Standards and Systems Interoperability; SmarTeam Customers Will Benefit from Improved Electronic Sharing of B2B e-Commerce Information

For Release April 3, 2001

BEVERLY --

Smart Solutions, a Dassault Systmes (NASDAQ:DASTY) company and its Americas subsidiary, SmarTeam Inc., a leading provider of rapidly-implemented business collaboration solutions for small-to-medium-sized manufacturing organizations, today announced it joined RosettaNet, a self-funded and non-profit consortium of major information technology, electronic component, and semiconductor manufacturing companies working to create and implement industry-wide, open e-business process standards. As a RosettaNet member, SmarTeam is committed to helping establish a common language and standard processes to ease the electronic sharing of business information between supply chain partners globally.

Today's announcement further extends SmarTeam's commitment to industry standards for integrating and exchanging product, plant and project information throughout manufacturing enterprises and their supply chains. SmarTeam also announced last month its new iXF standard for collaborative product commerce, a next-generation XML-based technology for the secure, accurate and electronic exchange of information.

Avichay Nissenbaum, Smart Solutions' vice president of product marketing, says, "Joining RosettaNet affirms our commitment to standards and interoperability. Our goal is to make it easier for our customers to integrate their B2B systems in a heterogeneous environment by making our own systems standards-based and open. We are proud to join the ranks of other RosettaNet Partners who are committed to raising the standards bar for the future of product data exchange and propagating RosettaNet standards throughout industry worldwide."

RosettaNet Partners include technology companies that provide tools and services to enable supply chain companies to implement RosettaNet standards. Partners include systems integrators, software developers, consultants and technology and service providers. For more information about RosettaNet and its more than 400 partners, visit www.rosettanet.org.

"RosettaNet's aggressive growth in membership reflects the enormous commitment by industry leaders to drive forward and make RosettaNet standards pervasive in the eMarketplace," noted Jennifer Hamilton, RosettaNet Chief Executive Officer. "Enlisting member companies such as SmarTeam serves to further the progress of RosettaNet's global e-business standards development on an industry-wide basis."

About RosettaNet
RosettaNet is an independent, non-profit consortium dedicated to the collaborative development and rapid deployment of open Internet-based business standards that align processes within the global high-technology trading network. More than 400 companies representing over $1 trillion in annual Information Technology, Electronic Components and Semiconductor Manufacturing revenues currently participate in RosettaNet's standards development, strategy and implementation activities. A complete list of partner companies and more information on RosettaNet can be found at www.rosettanet.org.

About Smart Solutions Ltd.
Smart Solutions Ltd., a Dassault Systemes S.A. (NASDAQ:DASTY) company, develops and markets rapidly implemented, yet totally customizable, Windows and Web-centric collaborative product commerce (CPC) and product data management (PDM) solutions that can be used between teams, within the enterprise and throughout the supply chain. Smart Solutions was founded in 1995 and is one of the fastest-growing companies in the data management market with over 1,300 customers worldwide. SmarTeam's broad solutions portfolio enables small-to-medium-sized manufacturing organizations and their supply chains to efficiently exchange, track and manage design information related to product development from concept to realization. SmarTeam's solutions help companies gain improvements in product quality, reduce costs, expedite project turnaround, comply with industry standards and shorten-time-to-market.

For more information, contact: SmarTeam Inc., Smart Solutions' American subsidiary. SmarTeam Inc., 900 Cummings Center, Suite 307T, Beverly, Mass. 01915 tel: (978) 524-1950. E-mail: info@smarteam.com, or visit the company's website at www.smarteam.com.