Agile Combines Product Lifecycle Management
with IBM’s Industry-Leading Portal
Agile 9 Improves Employee Productivity Across
the Extended Supply Network by Enabling
Personalized, Easy Access to Product Lifecycle
Information and Services via IBM’s WebSphere
Portal
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San Jose, CA - January 26,
2004 - Agile Software Corporation (Nasdaq:
AGIL), a leading provider of product lifecycle
management (PLM) solutions, announced Agile 9
platform support for IBM’s WebSphere Portal. Agile
will deliver WebSphere Portal as an option for the
Agile 9 PLM platform to help customers improve
employee productivity across the product
lifecycle. Additionally, customers already using
WebSphere Portal will have the ability to
incorporate Agile 9 portlets into their existing
portal environments.
Agile 9 portlets deployed on WebSphere Portal
provide a broad reach of product record
information to users within an enterprise and to
partners. Deploying portlets increases the
usability for end users by empowering them to
personalize the look and feel, and customize the
way they view information in Agile. Agile portlets
can now be deployed with information from other
enterprise systems, such as ERP, enabling a single
dashboard view into related product record
business processes.
Support for WebSphere Portal is part of Agile’s
commitment to extend Agile 9 support to the entire
IBM application platform suite, including the IBM
WebSphere Application Server and DB2 relational
database management system.
“Agile, with its proven PLM expertise, provides an
additional means to enable our customers to
deliver personalized access to all of the
enterprise data and services needed to optimize
their processes across the extended supply
network,” said Tim Thatcher, program director for
WebSphere at IBM. “We look forward to building on
this relationship in which Agile will extend the
innovation of Agile 9 across the IBM application
infrastructure stack.”
The Portal Meets PLM
“Agile's strategy is to provide manufacturing
companies the ability to harness the product
record as a key IT asset to drive competitive
advantage, profitability, and long-term growth,”
said Pierre Fricke, executive vice president, PLM
infrastructure, D.H. Brown. “By using IBM's
WebSphere Portal, Agile 9 enables users to access
and integrate data in a user context-sensitive
manner that improves productivity and enables
competitive advantage.”
Agile 9 represents Agile’s most powerful and
comprehensive release for managing the enterprise
product record that links product knowledge to
manufacturing firms’ critical business processes.
Agile 9 delivers a next-generation, global
enterprise PLM architecture featuring a
services-oriented architecture and significant new
standards-based components for integrating the
product record with other business systems and
processes. It also offers an extended suite of
business-ready, best-practice PLM solutions for
maximizing product profitability, including the
first product governance and compliance solution
based on the product record as an enterprise
system of record.
“For manufacturing companies, where products
define competitive advantage and profitability,
having a single enterprise view is critical to
gaining the insight needed to optimize business
performance,” said Chris Wong, Agile executive
vice president, products and strategy. “Agile
support for the world-class IBM WebSphere Portal
delivers on this demand by enabling a single,
relevant view of the product across the product
lifecycle—within Agile 9 and in conjunction with
other enterprise information used to drive the
business. In doing so, companies can realize the
benefits of better business insight and best
practices, including improved market
responsiveness, enhanced productivity, and
increased product profitability.”
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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