Reinvent your product development with ALM-PLM integration. Discover how Dassault Systèmes, a global leader in PLM, and Tuleap, a French ALM expert, are joining forces to deliver a groundbreaking solution tailored to the challenges of Industry 4.0.
Dassault Systèmes is renowned for its product lifecycle management (PLM) software solutions. By combining 3D design, manufacturing, and product tracking through the digital twin, Dassault Systèmes supports companies from the initial idea all the way to the end of the product’s life cycle.
Context and Initial Challenge – a need for full integration
Hardware/software traceability and collaboration: key challenges
Historically, Dassault Systèmes excelled in managing the lifecycle of physical products (PLM), but lacked a dedicated solution for software project management. However, the rise of embedded technologies and the growing integration of software into industrial products made the convergence of hardware and software essential.
🔎 The search for a suitable ALM solution
In response to this challenge, Dassault Systèmes set out to find an ALM partner capable of complementing its PLM solutions.
♖ The challenge:
- Provide unified project management combining mechanics, electronics, and software.
- Meet the growing demands for traceability, quality, and time-to-market in the high-tech industry.
The choice had to meet specific criteria:
“Tuleap is aimed for mostly industrial software. This industrial vision is really important for us.”
Karine CAUSSE GOBINET, High-Tech & Software Industry Solution Experience Director
Expertise in complex industrial environments.
The ability to integrate hardware and software disciplines.
Compatibility with the high-quality standards of Dassault Systèmes products.
Why Tuleap?
Industrial adaptation
Tuleap is designed for complex environments, with tools tailored to demanding industrial processes.
Made in Europe 🇪🇺
A strategic asset to facilitate communication and ensure a deep understanding of needs. Cultural proximity and a strong understanding of the European market’s needs.
ALM-PLM Integration
A unique ability to connect software disciplines (ALM) with Dassault Systèmes’ product management processes (PLM).
The tangible benefits for customers
Why connect Application Lifecycle Management and Product Lifecycle Management?
Through this collaboration, Dassault Systèmes and Tuleap now offer an integrated solution that simplifies the lives of customers. What stands out from this synergy:
Unified project management
Hardware and software teams can collaborate seamlessly, reducing silos between disciplines.
Addressing the challenges of connected devices
With the rise of connected devices, this solution enables the management of embedded software, remote control applications, and more.
Turnkey solution
Optimization of software and product lifecycle management: organizations can now benefit from full integration with Tuleap ALM tools + Dassault Systèmes PLM from the start.
Acceleration of digital transformation
Enhanced traceability, reduced time-to-market, optimized quality.
“With Tuleap, we’ve managed, in a quite tight collaboration, to put together some nice solutions so that our customers can really work with the hardware and software teams closely related together.”
Karine CAUSSE GOBINET, High-Tech & Software Industry Solution Experience Director
Delivering measurable value for engineering teams
By working hand in hand with Tuleap, Dassault Systèmes enables its customers to tackle the challenges of Industry 4.0. The collaboration promotes better traceability, reduced time-to-market, and improved quality of delivered products.
The Dassault Systèmes x Tuleap partnership embodies the technological convergence essential for the competitiveness of modern businesses. Together, they set a new standard for the industry, where product lifecycle management (PLM) and application lifecycle management (ALM) merge into one.
Interview
During our meeting with our partner Dassault Systèmes, we had the opportunity to interview Karine Causse-Gobinet, a key figure in the company. This collaboration with Dassault Systèmes, a pioneer in Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), and Tuleap, an expert in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), highlighted the synergies between our two solutions. This strategic partnership aims to meet the needs of modern industrial companies by integrating software development into the overall product design process, thus fostering seamless collaboration between hardware and software teams.
Hello Karine, could you introduce yourself and explain your role at Dassault Systèmes, particularly within the high-tech team?
KCG. Hello, so I’m Karine. I’ve been working in Dassault Systèmes for more than 25 years. Today I work in the high-tech industry. It means that I work for vertical high-tech that goes from semiconductor, the chips, to connected objects like phones, and to the big high-tech objects like data centers or networks. Our role in industry is to help our customers find the best way to use the different tools we have, find the best way to put them together to answer their way of working and their processes.What is the role of Dassault Systèmes in the industry?
KCG. So, Dassault Systèmes is the leader in PLM, product lifecycle management. It means that we help our customers manage the definition of a product from its inception, all the way to the detailed engineering in all different disciplines, to its manufacturing and its production, and even its maintenance in real life until its end of life. Dassault Systèmes works on this whole lifecycle, and to actually help customers work, our thing is 3D, and now today it’s the virtual twin. The idea is that you model the product in all its dimensions, so that you can actually simulate how it works before building it.Why did you decide to choose an ALM solution?
KCG. Dassault Systèmes, as I said, models products in all its dimensions and all its disciplines. Traditionally, we come from the 3D and from the mechanical world, where we represent the 3D dimensions of the product. But today, all types of products, whatever they are, are all connected, and they’re all full of software. So, it’s not enough to model the 3D of a product. You need to understand its behavior and how it will move with software. So, you need to integrate the software discipline inside the PLM.Why have you chosen Tuleap?
KCG. To manage software in our products, we need an ALM solution. Dassault Systèmes does not have an ALM itself, so it needs to develop integration with different ALM tools. We chose Tuleap for different reasons. The first reason is, it’s French, and we knew people working for Tuleap. It’s an easy collaboration because we have the same background, and it’s easy to work together. The second reason, which is really essential, is that Tuleap is aimed for mostly industrial software. This industrial vision is really important for us, PLM, because we work for the industry.How has Tuleap improved the collaboration between product and development teams?
KCG. With Tuleap, we’ve managed, in a quite tight collaboration, to put together some nice solutions so that our customers can really work with the hardware and software teams closely related together.
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