"We are very excited about DS's strategy to provide 3D Live online applications to empower enterprise users on Microsoft's platforms," says Sanjay Parthasarathy, corporate vice president, Developer and Platform Evangelism Group, Microsoft. "ENOVIA 3D Live illustrates Microsoft's and Dassault Systèmes' common passion for connected solutions that deliver ease, power, and performance to our customers."

"With ENOVIA 3D Live, the first online application for collaborative intelligence, Dassault Systèmes brings the power of PLM to a wide range of new users in existing and new markets," explains Dominique Florack, executive vice president, R&D, Dassault Systèmes. "The ENOVIA 3D Live user experience takes online collaboration to a new level."

ENOVIA 3D Live is a lightweight application available on the web. It makes it possible for anybody to connect to any PLM information source securely, anywhere and at anytime. Breakthrough technologies include 3DSearch, 3DNavigation and 3DCollaboration. ENOVIA 3D Live can embrace any PLM data via V5 SOA open architecture. The solution, currently being beta-tested by key clients, will be available later this year.