Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: "MSFT") and SmarTeam Corporation Ltd., a Dassault Systèmes company (Nasdaq: DASTY; Euronext Paris: #13065, DSY.PA), today announced plans by KAB Seating Ltd. of the United Kingdom to extend its SMARTEAM® Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solution, based on Microsoft® technologies, to interoperate with the Microsoft Business Solutions--Axapta® enterprise resource planning (ERP) product, one of Microsoft's business application suites. The mobile machinery and automotive supplier's use of SMARTEAM PLM and Microsoft technologies will be showcased at ECF, Oct. 12--14, in Paris.

KAB Seating, a leading global tier-one supplier of performance seating for off-road vehicles to major international original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), is a long-standing customer of SMARTEAM PLM, built on Microsoft SQL Server (TM) , and uses Microsoft technology as its corporate platform. KAB plans to merge its PLM, ERP and supplier processes across the extended enterprise, maximizing its competitive advantage while reducing costs and business risk.