San Jose, CA - January 26, 2004 - Agile
Software Corporation (Nasdaq: AGIL), a leading
provider of product lifecycle management (PLM)
solutions, today announced the general
availability of Agile 9, Agile’s next-generation
release for managing the enterprise product record
throughout the product lifecycle. Agile 9 supports
the product lifecycle business processes,
technology platform, and integration requirements
of companies in the aerospace and defense,
automotive, consumer packaged goods, high tech and
electronics, industrial products, and life
sciences industries. Several Agile customers —
including Harris Corporation, QUALCOMM and
Sanmina-SCI — have launched deployments of Agile 9
to accelerate revenue, reduce costs, improve
quality and ensure compliance. (For more
information, see
“Agile Introduces Agile 9,” dated November 17,
2003.)
“At QUALCOMM, we understand first-hand the
tight link between the ability to manage the
product record across the enterprise and our
ability to drive leadership in the development and
delivery of innovative digital wireless products
and services,” said Norm Fjeldheim, CIO, QUALCOMM.
“We’ve been a long-time supporter of leveraging
technology to meet our market requirements. We
look forward to the extensibility, scalability,
analytics and decision support delivered with the
new Agile 9 PLM platform and expect to see
positive results with our adoption of Agile 9.”
Agile 9 provides a broad suite of business-ready,
best-practice PLM solutions built on a unified
enterprise PLM architecture. With hundreds of new
customer-driven capabilities, Agile 9 features the
new Agile Product Governance and Compliance
solution for managing product compliance to
industry standards and regulations; the expanded
Agile Product Portfolio Management offering; and
enhanced versions of Agile Product Collaboration,
Agile Engineering Collaboration, Agile Product
Cost Management, and Agile Product Service and
Improvement. Agile’s n-tier architecture leverages
Web services, J2EE, XML and analytics technologies
to provide visibility, management, control,
collaboration and decision support of common
product record information across all Agile
solutions. Agile 9 provides a single enterprise
view of the product record across business
processes and the extended enterprise — throughout
the entire product lifecycle — from concept and
development through launch and production to
service and disposal.
“An enterprise product life cycle management
strategy is the key competitive differentiator
among global 2000 organizations. The winners in
the next economic upturn already know this,” said
Bruce Hudson, program director, META Group.
“Enterprise scalability, flexibility,
standards-based architecture, and decision-support
features are all essential capabilities that
businesses need in order to streamline processes
and optimize decisions associated with the product
record.”
“Agile 9 is all about our customers. We invested a
significant amount of time listening to our
customers to understand how we could improve the
Agile solution suite to support their business
priorities,” said Chris Wong, executive vice
president, products and strategy. “The result is
Agile’s most comprehensive release to date. With
the delivery of Agile 9, our customers now have a
system of unprecedented scope for leveraging the
product record to drive profits, accelerate
innovation, reduce costs, and ensure regulatory
compliance.”About Agile Software Corporation
Agile Software Corporation (NASDAQ: AGIL) helps
companies drive profits, accelerate innovation,
reduce costs, and ensure regulatory compliance
throughout the product lifecycle. With a broad
suite of enterprise class PLM solutions,
time-to-value focused implementations, and a
unique Guaranteed Business ResultsSM program,
Agile helps companies get the most from their
products. Alcatel, Boeing, Dell Inc., Flextronics
International, Hitachi, Leapfrog, Lockheed Martin,
Magna Steyr, Playtex, Siemens, and QUALCOMM are
among the nearly 1,200 customers in the
automotive, aerospace and defense, consumer
products, electronics, high tech, industrial
products, and life sciences industries that use
Agile solutions. For more information, call (408)
284-4000 or visit
www.agile.com.
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