Bernburg, November 29, 2006 - Pumacy Technologies AG today announced that its knowledge management software KMmaster won third place of the Dassault Systèmes and VDI Innovation Award ‘Sachen machen!’. The prize was awarded to the prize winners in corporation with service and hardware partners during the EUROMOLD 2006 in Frankfurt/Main.

„The Innovation Award recognizes our concept of safeguarding the industry's competitiveness. With regard to personnel and production costs German entrepreneurs today must discover and use critical competitive factors such as the intellectual capital of their employees,“ explains Pumacy Technologies AG CEO Dr. Toralf Kahlert.

In reference to Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) as the main category of the Award he adds, “The Pumacy KMmaster was designed to support collaboration among engineers working in different places. KMmaster extends existing PLM environments and enables engineers to exchange their knowledge and experiences directly within development processes as lessons learnt and good practices. Efficient work processes at lower costs will be the result.”

Dassault Systèmes Innovation Award was launched this year to support young, small and medium-sized businesses and their innovative products up to time to market. The implementation of innovative ideas by means of development tools within a Product Lifecycle Management environment was a decisive criteria for the jury.

The top-class jury was made up of experts from economy, science and media. The jury included Prof. Dr.-Ing. Reiner Anderl, Vice President of Technische Universität Darmstadt, Lars Funk, Manager VDI Member Service, Denis Senpéré, Vice President PLM Europe, Dassault Systèmes as well as Dipl.-Ing. Rudolf Schulze, Editor-in-Chief VDI News.

KMmaster

KMmaster is a product of the Pumacy Group applicable for different knowledge management solution concepts. KMaster can be integrated into different PLM environments. Individual solution concepts can be implemented into this technology to develop, collect, share, store, apply and evaluate knowledge. The KMmaster technology structures working methods and improves business processes.

Specialised KMmaster-“Editions“ combine the knowledge management focus of this solution with further applications. Pumacy currently develops an innovation management solution.

Dassault Systèmes

As a world leader in 3D and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, the Dassault Systèmes group brings value to more than 90,000 customers in 80 countries. A pioneer in the 3D software market since 1981, Dassault Systèmes develops and markets PLM application software and services that support industrial processes and provide a 3D vision of the entire lifecycle of products from conception to maintenance. The Dassault Systèmes portfolio consists of CATIA for designing the virtual product - SolidWorks for 3D mechanical design - DELMIA for virtual production - SIMULIA for virtual testing and ENOVIA for global collaborative lifecycle management, including ENOVIA VPLM, ENOVIA MatrixOne and ENOVIA SmarTeam. Dassault Systèmes is listed on the Nasdaq (DASTY) and Euronext Paris (#13065, DSY.PA) stock exchanges. Dassault Systèmes AG was founded in 2005 to support indirect channels in the small- and medium-sized business (SMB) market. For more information, visit: http://www.3ds.com

CATIA, DELMIA, ENOVIA, SIMULIA and SolidWorks are registered trademarks of Dassault Systèmes or its subsidiaries in the US and/or other countries.

Pumacy Technologies AG

Pumacy Technologies AG (http://www.pumacy.de) is a leading knowledge management solution provider. The comprehensive portfolio of products and services is based on an interdisciplinary approach covering knowledge, process, and innovation management.

Pumacy has customers who are known as leading manufacturers from the aerospace and automotive, as well as the plant and machinery industries. Pumacy as extensive references from significant international consultancy and IT projects.