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Put another way, as my friend and excellent blogger and PLM consultant Jos Voskill pointed out to me, it was a move also from V6 being a PLM backbone for CATIA, ENOVIA, DELMIA and SIMULIA apps to a full-blown Platform as you will see in the next section. In other words, rather than using a letter (V) and a number (6) to refer to the platform which was somewhat cryptic, they decided to rebrand it as a revolutionary platform for 3D (as in three-dimensional, a throwback to the CATIA values) and in the context of the experience economy and thus 3DEXPERIENCE. 3DEXPERIENCE is bornĪs confusion continued about the name of ENOVIA V6 being both an application suite and a platform, Dassault Systèmes decided to clear up the confusion by creating the 3DEXPERIENCE platform and separating it from the ENOVIA apps. This also was confusing and is why people still refer to the platform as "ENOVIA". ENOVIA V6 was both this collaboration platform for CATIA V6 as well as the former MatrixOne "Centrals" portfolio for Enterprise PLM management of BOMs, Change, Supplier Relationships, etc. This was quite an adjustment for IT departments that were used to file-based ways of working and did necessarily want to be obligated to buy a server. One of the biggest changes in V6 was the "no files" concept which meant that CATIA V6 no longer could open files off of a file system (file-based), but rather would be connected to a platform called ENOVIA V6 for access to and saving of geometry modified in session ("no files" as the data was stored on file servers and inside the database). As I described here, V6 was a fusion of placing VPM V6 on top of the MatrixOne foundation and was released in 2008.
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And then there was V6īuilding on the success of CATIA V5 and Solidworks as well as their acquisition of MatrixOne in 2005, Dassault Systèmes created the V6 platform. Customers and partners still seem to be confused about the differences between the old architecture and the new one, so I propose to take a few minutes to explain the differences between the two and why it matters. In 2014, Dassault Systèmes announced the launch of 3DEXPERIENCE platform which replaced their V6 product line.