SmarTeam Joins the Primavera Partners Program

    Companies Work Together to offer Integrated Product Management/Project
                Collaboration Solution to Global Manufacturers

    BEVERLY, Mass., March 26 Smart Solutions Ltd., a Dassault
Systemes company, and its Americas subsidiary, SmarTeam Inc.,
a leading provider of Web-centric, rapidly implemented business collaboration
solutions, today announced that it has joined the Primavera Systems, Inc.
Partner Program.  Primavera is the leading developer of enterprise and
Web-based project management, control and execution software.  As a member of
the Primavera Partner Program, Smart Solutions intends to work with Primavera
to offer additional enterprise product/project management integration
capabilities to manufacturers and their supply chains in many vertical
industries such as automotive, facilities management, new product development,
power/process and petrochemical industries. Integration between the SmarTeam
collaborative product data management (CPC/PDM) products and Primavera project
management solutions will enable users to improve overall project management
processes and decrease time to market for new products.
    According to Avichay Nissenbaum, vice president of product marketing for
Smart Solutions Ltd., "Projects that run efficiently, adhere to budget, and
complete on time, return business for many manufacturers.  Providing
innovative tools to help customers achieve successful results is paramount.
The powerful combination of SmarTeam for managing complex product development
information and Primavera for managing projects provides firms with increased
collaboration capabilities for product and resource planning on an enterprise-
wide level."
    "The Primavera Partners Program provides a framework for establishing and
nurturing relationships with companies that offer complementary solutions for
Primavera products," explains John Garay, Primavera's Alliance Manager.  "We
look forward to working with SmarTeam to help customers create collaborative
product data management environments that include information about schedules,
documents, financials, and timesheets."
    SmarTeam customer Aalborg Industries http://www.aalborg.dk is reinventing itself
to meet the challenges of global competition.  In an initiative to reduce
costs and shorten delivery time, the boilers and steam generators the company
used to manufacture at one facility in Erie, PA, are now fabricated around the
world through a supply chain, sub-suppliers, subcontractors, and extended
enterprise partners.  Design activities are similarly dispersed to different
locations, with about half of Aalborg's detailed design graphics work now done
off-site by others.
    To speed up communication and collaboration in their extended enterprise,
Aalborg is replacing outdated paper-based document procedures with a new
"virtual office" environment where information in a central database will be
accessed via a web-based system anywhere, anytime, by anyone: employees,
supply chain sub-suppliers, subcontractors, and strategic partners as well as
customers.
    Aalborg has selected SmarTeam packages for managing its document control
functions, and as a platform for its collaboration portal.  The software is
being tightly integrated with other systems to form the electronic enterprise
envisioned by Aalborg: Oracle Applications for managing business data,
Primavera for project management, and eTimeMachine for time/event reporting.
SAR Associates, a Primavera Authorized Representative from Ontario, Canada,
http://www.sarsystems.com is providing additional integration services for Aalborg.
    The next step in Aalborg's vision for the virtual office is to exchange
information with suppliers and customers online in real time, giving everyone
in the company's extended enterprise direct, immediate access to authorized
portions of the SmarTeam database.
    "This is part of an aggressive web strategy to bring all our stakeholders
on line with us in real time," explains Zurn.  "We envision a bi-directional
electronic exchange of all the information now flowing throughout the supply
chain including drawings, CAD models, engineering changes, and other project
design files as well as project status information, prices, quotes, bids, etc.
Plans are also in the works to integrate PDM with other applications such as
scheduling and ERP on the site.  The integration of this application software
with the SmarTeam collaboration modules will form the core of Aalborg's
virtual office."

    About Primavera Systems, Inc.
    Founded in 1983, Primavera Systems, Inc. is the leading provider of
enterprise and Web-based project management, control and execution software.
Primavera's innovative solutions help companies around the world achieve
business success through project success. The company serves a broad range of
industries, including aerospace and defense, automotive, chemical processing,
construction, energy, engineering, financial services, manufacturing,
pharmaceuticals, software development, technology, telecommunications and
utilities. Primavera's core products include Primavera Enterprise(R),
Primavera Project Planner(R) (P3(R)), Primavera Expedition(R), Primavera
TeamPlay(TM), PrimeContract(TM) and SureTrak Project Manager(R) (SureTrak(R)).
The company is headquartered in Bala Cynwyd, a suburb of Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, with offices in Chicago, New Hampshire, New York, San Francisco,
Hong Kong and London. Visit Primavera at http://www.primavera.com/.

    About Smart Solutions Ltd.
    Smart Solutions Ltd., a Dassault Systemes S.A. company,
develops and markets rapidly implemented, yet totally customizable, Windows
and Web-centric collaborative product commerce (CPC) and product data
management (PDM) solutions between teams, within the enterprise and throughout
the supply chain. Smart Solutions was founded in 1995 and is one of the
fastest growing companies the data management market with over 1,300 customers
worldwide. SmarTeam's broad solutions portfolio enables small-to-medium sized
manufacturing organizations and their supply chains to efficiently exchange,
track, and management design information related to product development from
concept to realization. SmarTeam's solutions help companies gain improvements
in product quality, reduce costs, expedite project turnaround, comply with
industry standards, and short time-to-market.
    For more information, contact SmarTeam Inc., Smart Solutions' American
subsidiary SmarTeam Inc., 900 Cummings Center, Suite 307T, Beverly, Mass
01915; tel: (978) 524 1950. Email: info@smarteam.com; or visit the company's
website at http://www.smarteam.com.

     CONTACT:
     Sharon Rodger
     SmarTeam Inc.
     (978) 524 1950 x.2029
     srodger@smarteam.com