DASSAULT SYSTEMES UK LIMITED

Virtual Simulation - SIMULIA

SIMULIA encompasses the full physics suite of gold-standard technologies for simulations. From structures, fluids, electromagnetics, multi-body dynamics, and vibro-acoustics. Virtual testing reduces the reliance on physical testing, reducing development time and cost, and enables far greater insights to optimise and develop the best possible quality of product.

Features

• Structural simulations
• Fluid simulations
• Electromagnetic simulations
• Vibro-acoustic simulations
• Multi-body simulations
• Virtual Testing / Virtual Twin / Digital Twin
• Design Optimisation
• Product Development
• Sustainable Design

Benefits

• 50% reduction in product development time
• Enhanced and optimised product quality
• 100x more tests at an equivalent time/cost
• Fail fast and achieve right-first-time products

£2,000 to £15,000 a user a year

• Education pricing available
• Free trial available

Service documents

• Pricing document

  PDF

• Service definition document

  PDF

• Terms and conditions

  PDF

Request an accessible format

If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need versions of these documents in a more accessible format, email the supplier at pola.dwernicki@3ds.com. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.

Framework

G-Cloud 14

Service ID

571604929416485

Contact

Pola Dwernicki
+44 7546 696 266
pola.dwernicki@3ds.com

Service scope

• Software add-on or extension: No
• Cloud deployment model:
  • Public cloud
  • Private cloud
  • Hybrid cloud
• Service constraints: Customers are informed of the planned maintenance/upgrades. Customers are asked to run cloud eligibility checker to ensure the hardware and software requirements meet DS cloud requirements.
• System requirements:
  • Internet connectivity
  • Oracle
  • SQL
  • Red Hat Linux n and n-1
  • Microsoft Edge Chromium
  • Google Chrome
  • Mozilla Firefox
  • NVidia RTX A2000-12GB
  • NVidia T1000 (derived from T400)
  • Windows 10 64-bit

User support

• Email or online ticketing support: Email or online ticketing
• Support response times: Within 24 hours
• User can manage status and priority of support tickets: Yes
• Online ticketing support accessibility: None or don’t know
• Phone support: Yes
• Phone support availability: 9 to 5 (UK time), Monday to Friday
• Web chat support: Web chat
• Web chat support availability: 9 to 5 (UK time), Monday to Friday
• Web chat support accessibility standard: None or don’t know
• How the web chat support is accessible: Setup through our support portal upon request or if suggested by our technical support contact.
• Web chat accessibility testing: N/a
• Onsite support: Onsite support
• Support levels: As part of the standard licensing, we support our clients with all forms of support including on-site where applicable to provide technology updates and at-hand support. We do also offer paid services such as further training and project work if needed.
• Support available to third parties: Yes

Onboarding and offboarding

• Getting started: We support our clients with paid online and onsite training. Onboarding is also supported via a substantial online knowledgebase and community support. In addition to the technical support services which are accessible to all active licenses.
• Service documentation: Yes
• Documentation formats:
  • HTML
  • PDF
• End-of-contract data extraction: Data can be downloaded at any time and will be stored upon expiry of the license for a set period of time to enable the client to extract or re-activate their license. This period is flexible depending on the client's needs and situation.
• End-of-contract process: Licenses are typically purchased on a subscription basis for 12 month periods. After which the client can renew their license period to continue to gain access to the technology.

Using the service

• Web browser interface: Yes
• Supported browsers:
  • Internet Explorer 11
  • Microsoft Edge
  • Firefox
  • Chrome
• Application to install: Yes
• Compatible operating systems:
  • Android
  • IOS
  • Linux or Unix
  • MacOS
  • Windows
• Designed for use on mobile devices: No
• Service interface: Yes
• User support accessibility: None or don’t know
• Description of service interface: The 3DEXPERIENCE platform includes solutions for interfacing with scientific and engineering simulation software.; Simulation automation and optimisation apps can include 3rd party simulation tool and web service APIs allowing external customer applications to communicate with the 3DEXPERIENCE platform. An Enterprise Integration framework is also available.
• Accessibility standards: None or don’t know
• Description of accessibility: The service aligns with NIST SP 800-53 and ISO/IEC 27001 to deliver critical security features, ; including authentication, access control, encryption, injection detection and prevention, ; auditing and server hardening.
• Accessibility testing: We test all our applications/roles/apps for every release ensuring there are no known issues.
• API: Yes
• What users can and can't do using the API: DS provides Enterprise Integration Framework and provide open API's to connect with various applications. Simulation automation and optimisation apps can include 3rd party simulation tool and web service APIs allowing external customer applications to communicate with the 3DEXPERIENCE platform. An Enterprise Integration framework is also available.
• API documentation: Yes
• API documentation formats:
  • HTML
  • PDF
• API sandbox or test environment: Yes
• Customisation available: Yes
• Description of customisation: There is a license within this service, which allows users to build, capture, and run simulation processes and methods using 3DEXPERIENCE and external applications through API integration.

Scaling

• Independence of resources: We have a load-balancer embedded in the cloud architecture which makes sure that resources are dynamically added based upon the demand on usage.

Analytics

• Service usage metrics: Yes
• Metrics types: Licensing can include credits if needed for burst capacity simulations. These credits are consumed for each job depending on the computational requirements. The credits and amount that are used per job can be tracked by the user.
• Reporting types: Real-time dashboards

Resellers

• Supplier type: Not a reseller

Staff security

• Staff security clearance: Conforms to BS7858:2019
• Government security clearance: Up to Security Clearance (SC)

Asset protection

• Knowledge of data storage and processing locations: Yes
• Data storage and processing locations: European Economic Area (EEA)
• User control over data storage and processing locations: Yes
• Datacentre security standards: Complies with a recognised standard (for example CSA CCM version 3.0)
• Penetration testing frequency: At least every 6 months
• Penetration testing approach: In-house
• Protecting data at rest: Physical access control, complying with SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
• Data sanitisation process: No
• Equipment disposal approach: Complying with a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v.30, CAS (Sanitisation) or ISO/IEC 27001

Data importing and exporting

• Data export approach: Download available via the cloud drive
• Data export formats:
  • CSV
  • Other
• Other data export formats: ODB
• Data import formats:
  • CSV
  • Other
• Other data import formats: INP

Data-in-transit protection

• Data protection between buyer and supplier networks:
  • TLS (version 1.2 or above)
  • Other
• Other protection between networks: Private Cloud has site to site VPN
• Data protection within supplier network:
  • TLS (version 1.2 or above)
  • IPsec or TLS VPN gateway

Availability and resilience

• Guaranteed availability: Details can be found: https://www.3ds.com/terms/sla/
• Approach to resilience: Available on request
• Outage reporting: Outages are reported via email alerts

Identity and authentication

• User authentication needed: Yes
• User authentication: Username or password
• Access restrictions in management interfaces and support channels: Management access is limited based on client requirements using pre-defined roles based access.
• Access restriction testing frequency: At least every 6 months
• Management access authentication: Username or password

Audit information for users

• Access to user activity audit information: Users contact the support team to get audit information
• How long user audit data is stored for: User-defined
• Access to supplier activity audit information: Users contact the support team to get audit information
• How long supplier audit data is stored for: User-defined
• How long system logs are stored for: User-defined

Standards and certifications

• ISO/IEC 27001 certification: Yes
• Who accredited the ISO/IEC 27001: SQS
• ISO/IEC 27001 accreditation date: 18/01/2022
• What the ISO/IEC 27001 doesn’t cover: NA
• ISO 28000:2007 certification: No
• CSA STAR certification: No
• PCI certification: No
• Cyber essentials: No
• Cyber essentials plus: No
• Other security certifications: No

Security governance

• Named board-level person responsible for service security: No
• Security governance certified: Yes
• Security governance standards: ISO/IEC 27001
• Information security policies and processes: Available on request

Operational security

• Configuration and change management standard: Conforms to a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v3.0 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
• Configuration and change management approach: Documented Change Management process is in scope for ISO27001. All changes are recorded in Change Management System. Change Management Process is required for any change to production services that could be customer affecting. Security review and approval are required for change requests. Policy in place for security to get involved prior to coding. ScienceCloud Security Team ensures appropriate controls are in place to ensure that risks can be mitigated and controlled to acceptable levels on an ongoing basis. The customer is notified in advance. Customers will be notified and provided access to the testing environment.
• Vulnerability management type: Conforms to a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v3.0 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
• Vulnerability management approach: OS Authenticated vulnerability scans are conducted monthly using industry top cloud security provider. WebApp scans ongoing and every release version is scanned before customer access. Ongoing Internal Penetration testing. Minor updates are applied monthly along with the release of OS updates. Critical updates use the incident management process and are rolled out ASAP and dependent on the risk. Security blogs, SANS, Cyber Security Podcasts
• Protective monitoring type: Conforms to a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v3.0 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
• Protective monitoring approach: We use a combination of TrendMicro Deep Security, AWS Confir, CloudWatch AWS GuardDuty, AWS WAF, and SumoLogic forIDS/IPS, FIRM, SIEM and Dashboards. AWS WAF security automation to prevent common attacks and bad IPs The incident response process covers DDoS attacks. Incident Response Process identifies special handling for privacy issues. Customers will be notified within 24hrs of any detected breach of customer data
• Incident management type: Conforms to a recognised standard, for example, CSA CCM v3.0 or ISO/IEC 27035:2011 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
• Incident management approach: We use a combination of tools for Intrusion detection, Threat Intell, HIDS/HIPS, and dashboards. Real-time alerts are sent to the Security Team with 24/7 coverage and a dedicated employee on duty. Incident response policies and procedures are in place. The IR process identifies key contacts and decision-makers. Incidents are triggered by monitoring, scanning, support, DevOps, and developers. Jira ticketing system is used with priority and escalation. Notification to customers is also documented in the process. The process is reviewed and approved by executive management. Metrics are collected and reported quarterly.

Secure development

• Approach to secure software development best practice: Independent review of processes (for example CESG CPA Build Standard, ISO/IEC 27034, ISO/IEC 27001 or CSA CCM v3.0)

Public sector networks

• Connection to public sector networks: No

Social Value

• Social Value:

  Social Value

  • Fighting climate change
  • Covid-19 recovery
  • Tackling economic inequality
  • Equal opportunity
  • Wellbeing

  Fighting climate change

  Our Climate Strategy is available here https://www.3ds.com/about-3ds/sustainability-commitment/esg-management/environment (Note: 1 Chapter 2 of our Annual Report contains a more complete description of our environmental actions and KPIs).

  Covid-19 recovery

  We support post Covid 19 recovery: - by contributing to the Upskilling agenda in the UK, in particular in the engineering and new energy and nuclear fields (e.g working closely with the Enginuity engineering charity and making our learning content available to engineers either who were on furlough or who wanted to reorient their career. - By creating new jobs and new skills, though our Graduate Programme and internships. We hired hundreds of new employees in our UK offices, with a clear focus on recent graduates and a more diverse and inclusive workforce. Dassault Systèmes UK Limited has doubled its size since 2018. - Digital upskilling of the workforce in Nuclear: we are engaged with Nuclear fission and fusion key players in the UK to empower the workforce of the future at college level and onwards with virtual technology teams. Our EDUCATION team is already speaking to Universities and stakeholders in the sector to enable this upskilling via STEM workshops in visitor centres, collaboration with local colleges and apprenticeship centres.

  Tackling economic inequality

  We are committed to reduce economic and social inequalities through local initiatives for the future workforce or by supporting inclusion and diversity initiatives, for example: - In 2020, we organised “Virtual Worlds”/STEM Day and worked with the STEM Champion company to invite local schools in our Cambridge and Coventry offices to show Year 8 students the power of virtual technology. - Our 30 STEM Ambassadors across our 8 UK offices meet on a monthly basis to review the implementation of DIVERSITY in our STEM strategy. We have decided to focus our STEM activities exclusively towards under-represented populations and to increase inclusion in the scientific and engineering world in the UK. Finally, regarding other social environmental initiatives: - We have renewed our membership with the BITC (Business in the Community) and are discussing various initiatives. In 2022, we have signed the BITC Race at Work charter and have monthly webinar sessions surrounding topics on cultural awareness. - Dassault Systèmes ranked #9 in the Corporate Knights 2022 Top 100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the World and was listed in the Clean200, the annual list of publicly traded companies offering sustainable energy transition solutions. - We launched the “Sustainability Compass” in 2021 to commit to internal and external change to reach carbon neutrality by 2035: A three pillar strategy focusing on reducing employees’ footprint, harmonizing our software portfolio to focus exclusively on solutions that have a positive environmental impact and collaborating with over 5000 stakeholders externally on the topic in the next 5 years. We also launched an internal online community, gathering all Dassault Systèmes’ employees willing to contribute to the company’s ambition and commitments towards sustainability.

  Equal opportunity

  We have created a Sustainability Committee, bringing together 3DS executives to drive our inclusion strategy and support our action plan. In addition, every year we celebrate our five Inclusion and Diversity pillars in many ways, and can count on our local Champions to support and create awareness both internally and externally.

  Wellbeing

  We are encouraging our workforce to look after their mental health and organise every year a “mental health week” or “well-being days” allowing employees to attend training sessions linked to mindfulness, stress reduction, and discuss the topic in team meetings to remove stigma around such conversations. - The Northern Europe leadership team also attends regular training sessions on the impact of mental health pressures on employees and their performance to spot early signs of concern. - Employees across functions are also encouraged to volunteer (STEM activities in local schools and at national and regional events, “clean up” days, volunteering in local charities such as AgeUK, Crisis, etc.) as multiple studies have shown that this contributes to improved mental health in the workforce. More information on volunteering is provided below. - Following some information received from Mental Health First Aid England (MHFA), a UK Mental Health First Aider Pilot is also being launched in Spring 2022 in Dassault Systèmes UK: whereby 3 employees from each of our 8 UK offices (Coventry, Cambridge, London, Knutsford, Oxford, Belfast, Nottingham, Sheffield) are being trained to become Mental Health First Aiders. This training will teach the skills needed to provide initial help, support and signpost employees to the relevant professional help. - We are also committed to engaging with local communities to improve well-being through innovation. During the COVID19 crisis, we made our technology capability available to the global ventilator community - including start-ups, students, Universities and volunteers in the UK

Pricing

• Price: £2,000 to £15,000 a user a year
• Discount for educational organisations: Yes
• Free trial available: Yes
• Description of free trial: Full access to all needed features for a set period: 1 - 2 months

Service documents

• Pricing document

  PDF

• Service definition document

  PDF

• Terms and conditions

  PDF

Request an accessible format

If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need versions of these documents in a more accessible format, email the supplier at pola.dwernicki@3ds.com. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.