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#INTERVIEW: Dassault Group has an India software services unit offering defence #MSMEs a digital ‘trial room’ where they can test their products to bag more contracts

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@3DSIndiaLab @Ravikiran_tweet @pabsgill Everyone in India knows that French fighter jet maker Dassault Aviation clinched the deal with India to deliver #Rafale, despite all the controversies surrounding it.

@3DSIndiaLab @Ravikiran_tweet @pabsgill But, did you know that its parent company, the Dassault Group, has a subsidiary that provides engineering software, much like #Microsoft and #Oracle — and has an office in India?

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@3DSIndiaLab @Ravikiran_tweet @pabsgill The software offshoot, Dassault Systemes, is looking to make roadways into the country by capitalising on the Modi administration’s push on #AtmaNirbharBharat (Self Reliant India).

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@3DSIndiaLab @Ravikiran_tweet @pabsgill Under the massive reforms introduced last year, the Indian government is now handing out defence procurement contracts to micro, small and medium enterprises (#MSMEs) to boost domestic defence manufacturing.

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@3DSIndiaLab @Ravikiran_tweet @pabsgill Dassault Systemes wants to capitalise on this opportunity by introducing what they call a ‘common shared infrastructure model’, which essentially an innovation centre.

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@3DSIndiaLab @Ravikiran_tweet @pabsgill “#MSMEs will leverage the model and the technologies that are hosted there, so that they also get elevated in the technology adoption scale,” Ravikiran Pothukuchi, the Director of Dassault Systemes told Business Insider in an exclusive interview.

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@3DSIndiaLab @Ravikiran_tweet @pabsgill Dassault Systemes is already the second-largest player in the global market when it comes to computer-aided design (CAD) software after Siemens. This is basically the use of computers to help with the creation, modification, analysis and optimisation of a product.

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@3DSIndiaLab @Ravikiran_tweet @pabsgill Its clients include bigwigs like Boeing, Airbus, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and its sister company, Dassault Aviation. In India, its clients include Ashok Leyland, Suprajit — India’s largest cable maker — and drone manufacturer General Aeronautics.

@3DSIndiaLab @Ravikiran_tweet @pabsgill A ‘common share infrastructure model’ is basically a stage where defence manufacturing companies and startups can come, toy with their ideas, and test their concepts — both in the virtual and physical world.

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