Agile and BearingPoint Help Bring Cellon
Wireless Phone Designs to Market
Wireless Design and Development House Deploys
Agile PLM to Complement Proven Approaches for
Accelerating Time-to-Market
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San Jose, CA and Paris, France - January 6,
2004 - Agile Software Corporation (Nasdaq:
AGIL), a leading provider of product lifecycle
management (PLM) solutions, and BearingPoint,
Inc., (NYSE: BE), one of the world's largest
business consulting and systems integration firms,
today announced that Cellon has successfully
implemented Agile Product Collaboration™.
"We deployed the Agile® solution to fully exploit
process efficiencies that Cellon has achieved,
including shrinking the product design cycle from
eighteen months to less than six. Agile PLM acts
as a central management console which can help
facilitate best practices across the product
lifecycle," said Yannick Le Nue, vice president of
engineering at Cellon. "Faster time-to-market is
the most important element of our value
proposition to clients. As such, it's crucial for
us to take advantage of every opportunity to
streamline product design and process management,
and our implementation of Agile Product
Collaboration is part of this effort."
Cellon, the world's largest independent design and
development house for wireless modules and
terminals, has rolled out the Agile solution to
hundreds of users in the design and development
center of Cellon France with the support of the
BearingPoint PLM team. Cellon is a leading
outsourcing house for the research, development
and design of wireless handsets and other devices.
The firm, which has shipped nearly 14 million
units since 1999, serves global original equipment
manufacturers (OEMs) worldwide, including Philips
and Siemens-Xelibri, as well as a number of Asian
companies, such as CEC, Konka and Haier, China's
largest consumer electronic appliances company.
Cellon's implementation in France is part of the
firm's global deployment of Agile Product
Collaboration to help its OEM worldwide customers
bring products to market faster.
With the Agile system in place, processes that
once took days can now be run in a few hours and
with greater accuracy," said Alain Parent, senior
director of product support, Cellon France. "The
ability to bring both speed and precision to
product processes is extremely important to our
customers. It can literally mean the difference
between first-to-market status—with its associated
margin and profitability advantages—or playing
catch-up."
PLM Brings Insight, Accountability, and Best
Practices to Design Outsourcing
In recent years, OEMs have increasingly leveraged
outsourced manufacturing models to improve their
profit margins and allow them to focus on core
competencies. The shift toward outsourced design
services represents the next evolution in the
outsourcing movement, enabling OEMs to leverage
existing design capabilities. However, this trend
mandates that outsourcing companies have the scale
and proven ability to manage multiple product
development cycles. At each phase of a product
lifecycle, management of a single product record
is critical to providing the process visibility
that enables cost-effective decisions and
accelerated cycle times.
The Agile-BearingPoint Team Contributes to
Cellon's Measurable Results
"Cellon has built a unique position within the
wireless communications marketplace that depends
on operational excellence to maintain and grow its
market share," said Jay Fulcher, president and
COO, Agile. "We're pleased that Cellon is
reporting measurable results from Agile's
enterprise-class PLM solutions and BearingPoint's
PLM process expertise, and extending product
lifecycle best practices across a global network
of design teams, suppliers and customers."
"Together, Agile's PLM solution expertise and
BearingPoint's wealth of PLM experience in
business process re-engineering and systems
integration have helped Cellon enhance its
internal performance," said Ewoud Huig, managing
director of BearingPoint France. "With
strengthened product lifecycle management
capabilities, Cellon has a strategic
differentiator that makes the firm an ideal
supplier to OEMs who insist that their contract
manufacturers add value to shared processes as
well as to the products themselves."
About BearingPoint
BearingPoint, Inc. (NYSE:BE) is one of the world's
largest business consulting, systems integration
and managed services firms serving Global 2000
companies, medium-sized businesses, government
agencies and other organizations. BearingPoint
provides business and technology strategy, systems
design, architecture, applications implementation,
network infrastructure, systems integration and
managed services. BearingPoint service offerings
are designed to help our clients generate revenue,
reduce costs and access the information necessary
to operate their business on a timely basis. Based
in McLean, Va., BearingPoint has been named by
Fortune as one of America's Most Admired Companies
in the computer and data services sector. For more
information, visit the Company's website at
www.BearingPoint.com.
This press release may contain forward-looking
statements, the accuracy of which is necessarily
subject to risks, uncertainties and assumptions as
to future events that may not prove to be
accurate. Factors that could cause actual results
to differ materially from those expressed or
implied include general economic conditions and
the factors discussed in our most recent Form
10-Q. We undertake no obligation to publicly
update or revise any forward-looking statements,
whether as a result of new information, future
events or otherwise.
About Cellon
Cellon International is the world's largest
independent wireless design and development house,
providing total solutions for wireless terminals
and related technology. The Company provides
complete module, platform and terminal-ready
production solutions for OEMs and private label
distributors worldwide. Cellon is in advanced
development of 2.5G and 3G products and has built
strategic relationships with leading technology
players and third-party software developers.
Cellon has more than 700 professional staff
worldwide and established design and development
centers in the United States, Canada, China and
France. Over 14 million phones that are in use
today are powered by Cellon technology.
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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