Summary of Recent Business, Technology and Customer Announcements
Corporate:
During the week of April 16th, the Company held its annual Design in the Age of Experience Conference in Milano, Italy. For Dassault Systèmes and its clients, Design is bigger than aesthetics or products. Design is the start of sustainable experiences that change lives and helps address key challenges facing society – such as climate action, dwelling, mobility and healthcare. Designers are at the focal point, linking form, function, and sometimes ‘magic’ to transform how we live, work and play.
Dassault Systèmes Accelerates the Global Industry Renaissance with Launch of Online Marketplace. On February 1, 2018 the Company officially launched the 3DEXPERIENCE Marketplace, its online ecosystem for industrial services and content providers. Fifty digital manufacturers with more than 500 machines and 30 million components from 600 suppliers will help businesses leverage new ways to innovate. With the 3DEXPERIENCE Marketplace, Dassault Systèmes brings to the industrial world an online trading platform as disruptive as the first retail marketplace.
Customers:
On February 22, 2018 Dassault Systèmes announced that Kärcher, the world's leading provider of cleaning technology, has adopted the 3DEXPERIENCE platform to digitally transform its existing processes worldwide and be first to market with efficient, resource-conserving cleaning systems, products and services. Kärcher will rely on the “Single Source for Speed” industry solution experience based on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform. The company can integrate its product development processes, improve collaboration and knowledge sharing for up to 1,200 employees, and reduce product development and production costs.
Today’s Webcast and Conference Call Information
Today, Wednesday, April 25, 2018, Dassault Systèmes will first host from London a webcasted meeting at 8:30 AM London time/ 9:30 AM Paris time and will then host a conference call at 9:00 AM New York time/ 2:00 PM London time/ 3:00 PM Paris time. The webcasted meeting and conference call will be available via the Internet by accessing http://www.3ds.com/investors/. Please go to the website at least 15 minutes prior to the webcast or conference call to register, download and install any necessary audio software. The webcast and conference call will be archived for one year.
Additional investor information can be accessed at http://www.3ds.com/investors/ or by calling Dassault Systèmes’ Investor Relations at 33.1.61.62.69.24.
Key Investor Relations Events
Annual Meeting of Shareholders: May 22, 2018
Capital Markets Day,
June 15, 2018
Second Quarter 2018 Earnings: July 25, 2018
Third
Quarter 2018 Earnings: October 24, 2018
Fourth Quarter 2018
Earnings: February 6, 2019
Forward-looking Information
Statements herein that are not historical facts but express expectations or objectives for the future, including but not limited to statements regarding the Company’s non-IFRS financial performance objectives, are forward-looking statements.
Such forward-looking statements are based on Dassault Systèmes management's current views and assumptions and involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties. Actual results or performances may differ materially from those in such statements due to a range of factors. The Company’s current outlook for 2018 takes into consideration, among other things, an uncertain global economic environment. In light of the continuing uncertainties regarding economic, business, social and geopolitical conditions at the global level, the Company’s revenue, net earnings and cash flows may grow more slowly, whether on an annual or quarterly basis. While the Company makes every effort to take into consideration this uncertain macroeconomic outlook, the Company’s business results, however, may not develop as anticipated. Further, there may be a substantial time lag between an improvement in global economic and business conditions and an upswing in the Company’s business results. The Company’s actual results or performance may also be materially negatively affected by numerous risks and uncertainties, as described in the “Risk Factors” section of the 2017 Document de Référence (Annual Report) filed with the AMF (French Financial Markets Authority) on March 21, 2018 and also available on the Company’s website www.3ds.com.
In preparing such forward-looking statements, the Company has in particular assumed an average US dollar to euro exchange rate of US$1.25 per €1.00 for the 2018 second quarter and US$1.20 per €1.00 for the 2018 second half as well as an average Japanese yen to euro exchange rate of JPY135.0 to €1.00 for the 2018 second quarter and JPY134.5 to €1.00 for the full year 2018 before hedging; however, currency values fluctuate, and the Company’s results of operations may be significantly affected by changes in exchange rates.
Non-IFRS Financial Information
Readers are cautioned that the supplemental non-IFRS information
presented in this press release is subject to inherent limitations. It
is not based on any comprehensive set of accounting rules or principles
and should not be considered as a substitute for IFRS measurements.
Also, the Company’s supplemental non-IFRS financial information may not
be comparable to similarly titled non-IFRS measures used by other
companies. Further specific limitations for individual non-IFRS
measures, and the reasons for presenting non-IFRS financial information,
are set forth in the Company’s 2017 Document de Référence filed
with the AMF on March 21, 2018.
