MSC.Software and IBM Join Forces to Deliver Analysis Solutions for Product Lifecycle Management...

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

SANTA ANA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 4, 2002

MSC.Software Will be IBM Key Business Partner in Providing

IBM Customers Worldwide With a Complete Range of Analysis

Software Products, Services and Systems

MSC.Software

Corp. (NYSE:MNS), the leading provider of simulation software, services and systems, and IBM (NYSE:IBM) today announced that MSC.Software will be IBM's key business partner in providing CATIA Analysis solutions earlier in the design cycle to significantly improve customers' design processes. MSC.Software will support IBM in delivering and supporting CATIA Analysis and Simulation solutions in strategic Named IBM Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) customers worldwide. This agreement strengthens MSC.Software's leadership position as a worldwide sales, marketing and support channel for CATIA Analysis and Simulation solutions for IBM PLM.

"MSC.Software is very focused on broadening the use of analysis and simulation beyond the high-end engineering community to the much wider audience of designers and design engineers," said Frank Perna, chairman and chief executive officer of MSC.Software. "CATIA analysis and simulation products are extremely complementary to MSC.Software's core software products and we're confident that more customers will incorporate simulation and analysis earlier in the design process and see immediate benefits. Use of these products earlier in the design cycle will significantly improve the cost, quality and the cycle time of the product design phase."

"MSC.Software's track record as the leader in simulation technology and as a leading Premier IBM Business Partner, make it a completely natural fit for this partnership. MSC.Software will support IBM in implementing at strategic accounts, the analysis and simulation techniques early in the design cycle with CATIA analysis products," said Ed Petrozelli, general manager, IBM Product Lifecycle Management. "Separately, our organizations already share a worldwide presence and a reputation for innovation. Together, our combination of products and skills will open a new level of benefit to our customers."

With 40 years of experience in providing the world's leading simulation solutions to engineering, manufacturing and research organizations worldwide, MSC.Software brings a wealth of knowledge and resources to the partnership. Designers, simulation analysts, manufacturing engineers and researchers will be able to incorporate analysis and simulation earlier into the product development cycle. The designer community now has immediate access to an expanded product and services portfolio and the opportunity to source a full range of integrated processes for product lifecycle management from a single, worldwide supplier.

As an international IBM Premier Business Partner, MSC.Software markets, implements and supports IBM's entire PLM portfolio, including core applications developed by Dassault Systemes: CATIA design and analysis applications, and ENOVIA and SmarTeam collaborative Product Data Management (PDM) software. The MSC.Software offerings also address customer requirements relating to the overall PLM environment, including infrastructure based on IBM desktop, network, and high performance computing components, systems implementation, design and analysis consultancy, and process re-engineering and integration services.

This announcement with IBM builds on last year's announcement of MSC.Software's strategic development partnership with Dassault Systemes and IBM Business Partner accreditation for select countries in Europe and Asia Pacific. Within these agreements, MSC.Software is developing a new generation of integrated software tools under the Dassault Systemes' V5 architecture and providing distribution and support activities for IBM Product Lifecycle Management to better serve PLM customers worldwide with a seamless network designed to serve the increasingly global nature of many of MSC.Software's and IBM's mid-range and enterprise customer base.

For more information about the global partnerships between MSC.Software and IBM Product Lifecycle Management, please visit http://www.mscsoftware.com.

About MSC.Software Corporation

MSC.Software (NYSE:MNS) is the leading global provider of simulation software, with related services and systems, that help companies make money, save time and reduce costs associated with designing and testing manufactured products. MSC.Software works with thousands of companies in hundreds of industries to develop better products faster by utilizing information technology, software, services and systems. MSC.Software employs more than 1200 people in 22 countries. For additional information about MSC.Software's products and services, please visit www.mscsoftware.com

About IBM

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