Dassault Systèmes has plunged itself into the Cloud deep-end by expanding the offering of its OUTSCALE brand. This comes nearly five years after the company acquired the technology in June 2017. The aim of this endeavor is to become a “leading sovereign and sustainable operator of trusted cloud services” according to the press release.
“Our strategy for OUTSCALE and its offering are unique in the industry,” said Pascal Daloz, COO, Dassault Systèmes. “We are applying 40 years of expertise at an industrial level to deliver an end-to-end sovereign cloud offering that is intricately linked to each customer’s core business and enables them to create value from data at multiple levels. With its dedicated and experienced leadership team, OUTSCALE will become the trusted partner of choice for our customers.”
The general idea is to position OUTSCALE as a “business experience as a service,” effectively a digital twin of any business enterprise. The benefit here is to democratize data science, break down organizational silos and capture business knowledge within a single ecosystem. Some of the business operations integrated in the offering include talent management, innovation acceleration (presumably R&D), asset intelligence and quality enforcement. The portfolio will also leverage other Dassault Systèmes platforms—AKA the 3DEXPERIENCE, which is packed with a plethora of engineering tools that have use cases throughout a product’s lifecycle.
Engineers can see this move as an expansion of Dassault Systèmes 3DEXPERIENCE strategy to bring all the tools an organization needs into a single ecosystem. Need CAD? The 3DEXPEREINECE has SOLIDWORKS. Need CAE? It also has SIMULIA. Need Cloud capabilities and traditional business back-end tools? Now they offer OUTSCALE and its ability to tailor itself to various business experiences.
Of course, there is the challenge of organizations dealing with their legacy systems. In that case, both the 3DEXPEREINCE and OUTSCALE offer APIs that enable the integration of various third-party tools.