Dassault Buys Netvibes

3D experience and product lifecycle management specialist Dassault Systemes has acquired social media intelligence and monitoring platform Netvibes. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

US-based Netvibes introduced what it claims was the first personalized dashboard publishing platform for the web in 2005. Last July, the firm added 'adaptive social analytics' to its existing monitoring solution, to enable it to analyze emerging trends in real-time. The firm's free 'people application' offers a personal dashboard to help anyone monitor and personalize relevant items from the news, Facebook, Twitter, photos, videos, and from more than 260,000 web apps via any desktop or device.

Dassault will now integrate Netvibes' platform into its own 3D Experience platform, to help its clients uncover information such as consumer sentiment, brand image or the adherence rate of early adopters.

Freddy Mini, Netvibes' CEO, says the combination will provide customers with real-time information 'critical to their innovation process'; while Dassault President and CEO Bernard Charles describes Netvibes as a 'perfect fit' to enable the firms to connect information relating to all product, service and user experiences from internal and external data sources.

Netvibes has offices in Paris, London and San Francisco, whereas Dassault Systemes is headquartered in France, with additional operations across Europe, the Middle East, the Americas and Asia Pacific.

The firms are online at: www.3ds.com and www.netvibes.com .

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