Dassault Systèmes Simulia Corp., doing business as SIMULIA, provides advanced finite element analysis software and services to solve engineering problems. Its products include ABAQUS/Standard, which provides a general-purpose finite element analysis tool that includes a variety of time- and frequency-domain analysis procedures; ABAQUS/Explicit, a finite element analysis program to serve advanced nonlinear continuum and structural analysis requirements; and ABAQUS/CAE, which provides a modeling and visualization environment for ABAQUS analysis products. The company also provides a platform for multiphysics simulation, and solutions for simulation lifecycle management. It has research and development centers in Providence, Rhode Island; and Suresnes, France. Dassault Systèmes Simulia serves aerospace and defense, architecture and construction, automotive, consumer goods, consumer packaged goods, high tech, industrial equipment, life sciences, process, power and petroleum, services, shipbuilding, and technology markets. The company has locations in Americas, Europe, and the Asia Pacific. The company was founded as Hibbitt, Karlsson & Sorensen, Inc. in 1978 and was renamed as ABAQUS, Inc. in 2002. It again changed its name to Dassault Systèmes Simulia Corp. in 2007. The company is based in Providence, Rhode Island. As of October 4, 2005, Dassault Systèmes Simulia Corp. is a subsidiary of Dassault Systemes SA.