{"id":538920,"date":"2025-10-31T02:41:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T02:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/538920\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T02:41:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T02:41:19","slug":"dassault-systemes-appoints-fabrice-canonge-to-head-centric-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/538920\/","title":{"rendered":"Dassault Syst\u00e8mes appoints Fabrice Canonge to head Centric Software"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                                    <b>Published<\/b><br \/>\n                                    <\/p>\n<p>                                        October 31, 2025<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-content col-md-8 offset-md-1\">\n                                Centric Software, a product lifecycle management (PLM) specialist owned by Dassault Syst\u00e8mes, has announced the appointment of Fabrice Canonge as chief executive officer.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"news-image\" style=\"width:100%;max-width:640px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/d07e.png\" alt=\"Fabrice Canonge\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>Fabrice Canonge &#8211; Centric Software<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-md-8 offset-md-1 article-content--texte\">Canonge knows the company well; he joined in 2004 and has held a number of key roles, including vice-president of European sales, then global sales, chief operating officer, and president since March 2023. He previously worked at enterprise software specialist PTC as well as at Italian vendor Finmatica.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Fabrice Canonge&#8217;s mission is to define and accelerate the brand&#8217;s strategic roadmap for software-as-a-service (SaaS), to meet evolving customer needs and strengthen its leadership with a new generation of AI-powered cloud solutions,&#8221; says Dassault Syst\u00e8mes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-md-8 offset-md-1 article-content--texte\">With its artificial intelligence-powered product lifecycle management (PLM) solutions, Centric Software serves more than 700 brands in 59 countries. The company says it is leveraging AI to develop new capabilities in planning, pricing, inventory management, product experience management (PXM) and market intelligence.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fr.fashionnetwork.com\/news\/Dassault-systemes-met-la-main-sur-centric-software,988078.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Acquired in 2018 by Dassault Syst\u00e8mes<\/a>, the company has notably pursued growth through acquisitions. At the end of 2021, it took over Italian <a href=\"https:\/\/fr.fashionnetwork.com\/news\/Plm-centric-software-rachete-l-italien-armonica-retail,1358898.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">retail<\/a> planning specialist <a href=\"https:\/\/fr.fashionnetwork.com\/news\/Plm-centric-software-rachete-l-italien-armonica-retail,1358898.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Harmonica Retail<\/a>. In February, German <a href=\"https:\/\/fr.fashionnetwork.com\/news\/Centric-software-rachete-le-specialiste-de-la-gestion-de-produits-contentserv,1707021.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">product management<\/a> tools provider <a href=\"https:\/\/fr.fashionnetwork.com\/news\/Centric-software-rachete-le-specialiste-de-la-gestion-de-produits-contentserv,1707021.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Contentserv<\/a> was acquired by the French company.\n                            <\/p>\n<p>\n                                This article is an automatic translation.\n                            <\/p>\n<p>\n                                Copyright \u00a9 2025 FashionNetwork.com All rights reserved.\n                            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published October 31, 2025 Centric Software, a product lifecycle management (PLM) specialist owned by Dassault Syst\u00e8mes, has announced&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":538921,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[952,748,393,2584,4884,15909,5775,1144,15910,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-538920","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-beauty","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-fashion","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-luxury","15":"tag-network","16":"tag-northern-ireland","17":"tag-professionals","18":"tag-scotland","19":"tag-uk","20":"tag-united-kingdom","21":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115466475481930420","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=538920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/538921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}