At the 2006 Japanese CATIA Forum (JCF), Microsoft Corp. and Dassault Systèmes (Nasdaq: DASTY; Euronext Paris: #13065, DSY.PA) announced that Toyota Motor Corp. (TMC) has adopted CATIA V5, Dassault Systèmes’ virtual product design product lifecycle management (PLM) solution on Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional x64 Edition.

TMC’s use of CATIA V5 on the Microsoft platform demonstrates the customer benefits of the global strategic alliance between Dassault Systèmes and Microsoft. Announced in November 2004, the alliance provides deeper integration between Dassault Systèmes’ V5 PLM and 3-D collaborative solutions and the Windows client and Windows Server® platforms to enable more flexible customer solutions that are cost-effective, easy to deploy and easy to maintain. All V5 PLM products take advantage of the familiar Windows experience but with the dramatically enhanced power of 64-bit.

“Having Dassault Systèmes and Microsoft working together is a key success factor for our company,” said Yoshikazu Amano, managing officer for Toyota Motor. “The alliance of the leader in PLM with the leader in computing technology provides us with a solution that extends the memory capacity necessary to design and review large assemblies, and ultimately enables us to deliver innovative products to the market more efficiently and cost-effectively.”