Optovia Selects Agile Advantage to Accelerate Development and Delivery of Next Generation Optical Amplifiers

Agile Advantage delivers the price, performance, and flexibility needed by small and medium enterprise customers

“Development and manufacturing of Optovia’s world-class products requires the capabilities of a proven, reliable product lifecycle management system,” said Harmeet Singh, Optovia CEO. “We compared several PLM systems that are designed to meet the needs of small enterprises such as ours. Agile Advantage proved to be the clear winner—delivering the richness of features, flexibility, and total cost of ownership that we require. It is also important to know that as we grow our business and deliver superior solutions to the market, Agile Advantage will grow with us and continue to deliver strategic value to our company.”

The accelerating demands by subscribers for bandwidth, combined with the planned entry by carriers into new markets will soon drive requirements for additional network capacity in metro-area, long-haul, and ultra-long-haul systems. Optovia’s optical amplification systems ease the financial burdens of service providers by delivering products that cost less, consume less power, have a smaller footprint, and perform better than the alternatives currently available. Founded in 2002, Optovia has achieved dramatic new price/performance levels with innovative components and sub-systems.

“Several factors led us to look for a PLM system to replace our existing legacy system, and finally to purchase Agile Advantage,” said Michael Burka, engineering manager, Optovia. “Neither our legacy system nor the other solutions that we considered had the feature richness and capabilities of Agile Advantage. We also needed a system that could provide a seamless integration to our other enterprise systems. Agile Advantage’s ease of use and low cost of maintenance were both important factors for us. In addition, our people who had prior experience with Agile thought highly of the product. The high levels of user adoption improve operational excellence and assure consistency across the organization. Finally, Agile Advantage represented the best overall value—always important to an emerging company.”

“Optovia’s leading edge products deliver high performance and high value to carrier networks. This means the company must cost-effectively manage product development and operations functions to meet strategic time to market and product cost targets,” said Bryan Stolle, Agile CEO. “SME customers like Optovia face intense pressures in these areas, and investment in a robust, feature-rich PLM system is key to their success in the marketplace. We are pleased that Optovia selected Agile Advantage to address their business processes.”

About Optovia Corporation
Optovia Corporation was founded in June 2002 with the mission to be the leading optical amplifier system supplier to the optical networking industry. Headquartered in Acton, Massachusetts, Optovia has raised $20 million in two rounds of funding and is backed by Atlas Venture and Northbridge Venture Partners. For more information, visit www.optovia.com.

About Agile Software Corporationn
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 Results program, Agile helps companies get the most from their products. Alcatel, Boeing, Dell Inc., Flextronics International, GE Medical, Haemonetics, Hitachi, Johnson & Johnson, Leapfrog, Lockheed Martin, Magna Steyr, Siemens, QUALCOMM and ZF 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 have realized high impact results through their use of Agile solutions. For more information, call 408-284-4000 or visit www.agile.com.