Spatial Unveils New Professional Services Program; Results-Driven Packages Added to Offerings.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

WESTMINSTER, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 4, 2002

Spatial Corp., a Dassault Systemes (Nasdaq:DASTY) (Euronext Paris #13065, DSY.PA) company and market-leading provider of 3D development technologies, today announced a new Professional Services program that includes targeted, point-to-point service packages to increase the quality and performance of partner applications while ultimately decreasing time to market.

These services extend resources and expertise for rapid progression from one step of application development to the next. Each package corresponds with the needs and budgets of application developers at specific stages of their development cycles, making participation easy and affordable.

The launch of this new program coincides with a reorganization of Spatial's Professional Services department. Led by Jerry Walters, vice president of worldwide services, the new structure is supported by Program Directors Marshall Lee in the Americas and Steve Hull in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA).

"In software, time is money. How quickly you can get your application to market largely dictates its revenue potential. One month cut from the production cycle can potentially capture larger market share, reduce production costs, and gain another month in the revenue window," said Jerry Walters. "We formulated these packages to decrease our partners' time to market by speeding development at critical stages, while increasing the capabilities, quality, and competitive relevance of their products."

"Last year we engaged Spatial Professional Services to help us meet particular technical requirements for our application," said Dr. Shimon Friedman, vice president of development at Cimatron Ltd. "Since then, the level of collaboration between our companies has soared. Through Spatial's Professional Services program, our relationship has grown, and we have built open lines of communication and encouraged better responsiveness. The evolution of our partnership is evident in the quality of Cimatron's application." Cimatron (www.cimatron.com) is a leading developer of CAD/CAM solutions for the tooling industry and a Spatial partner.

"The combination of code review and a two-day consulting session provided in Spatial's Immediate Access package ramped up our development team and cut our development schedule by weeks," said Roland Aukschlat, development manager at Opus. "We plan to regularly take advantage of the packaged services provided by Spatial to decrease our development time and verify the quality of our application."

The new service packages include:

Immediate Access -- A compact and economical package for Spatial product evaluators that delivers "rapid ramp-up" resources. Immediate Access reduces learning curves and decreases coding churn by providing a sound base of knowledge in Spatial products at the outset of development.

Accelerator -- In the stages leading to product releases, developers can leverage Accelerator to ensure Spatial components are integrated with the best implementation practices, guarantee quality, and remove downstream development pitfalls.

Application Tuning -- Spatial component experts tune Spatial product functionality and performance within existing applications for milestone releases to raise competitive value.

Special Platform Support -- A custom service package that expands the platform support delivered by Spatial-enabled applications.

In addition to its new packages, Spatial still offers a traditional selection of Professional Services -- Custom Engineering, Consulting, Program Management, and Education -- on an a la carte basis. All Spatial Professional Services are delivered by a team of experts whose collective software development experience totals more than 250 years.

More information on Spatial's new Professional Services packages is available on Spatial's Web page, www.spatial.com, or by writing to info@spatial.com. Current Spatial partners may contact their account managers for details.

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About Spatial

Spatial Corp., a Dassault Systemes S.A. (Nasdaq:DASTY) (Euronext Paris #13065, DSY.PA) company, is a market-leading provider of world-class 3D software development technologies. Spatial develops, markets, and supports best-of-breed 3D development technologies and services, to address the exponential requirements of 3D in Internet-based e-commerce and Business-to-Business (B2B) applications. Spatial's component products for 3D modeling, visualization, and interoperability have been adopted by some of the world's most recognized software developers, manufacturers, research institutes, and universities. In addition, by offering CAA V5, the Component Application Architecture used by Dassault Systemes, Spatial is the market-leading provider of 3D development technologies. Headquartered in Westminster, Colorado, Spatial has offices in the USA, Germany, France, Japan, and the United Kingdom. For more information, please visit Spatial's Web site at www.spatial.com or contact Spatial by email at info@spatial.com or by phone at 303/544-2900 or 800/767-5710.