Arima Communications Deploys Agile 9.2 to Streamline Product Development Processes

Taiwan-Based Leading Mobile Phone Provider Drives Product Collaboration Across the Enterprise and Manages Environmental Compliance With the Leading PLM Solution for Electronics and High Technology Companies

SAN JOSE, CA—October 23, 2006 - Agile Software Corporation (Nasdaq: AGIL), a leading provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) solutions, today announced that Taiwan-based Arima Communications, a leading mobile phone provider, has implemented Agile 9.2 PLM for managing the enterprise product record throughout the product lifecycle. Arima Communications selected Agile 9.2 in June 2006, and has been in production with Agile 9.2 since September 2006. Arima Communications implemented Agile Product Collaboration and Agile Product Governance & Compliance to standardize its new product development processes and meet environmental regulations.

Arima Communications specializes in the marketing, research, development, manufacturing and global logistic service of mobile phones. Founded in 1999, the company has expanded from 10 employees to one of the top two leading mobile phone ODM companies in Taiwan, with over 3,500 employees and products sold in more than 80 countries around the world. Its rapid growth is due to its development of flexible multi-band and multi-mode mobile phones that meet various frequency bands and diverse market conditions. Its main products are multi-band GSM/GPRS, 3G mobile phones and smart phones. In the past three years, Arima Communications has produced over 30 million mobile phones for world-famous customers, including Sony Ericsson and NEC.

“We’ve achieved such dramatic success in a short period due to our operational philosophy, which is to focus on innovation, quality and sharing. Agile directly supports these core values,” said Jimmy Su, CIO, Arima Communications. “We went through a lengthy evaluation of PLM solutions but ultimately selected Agile because of its stellar reputation, its short implementation time and the quality of its local consulting team, which we worked with to customize the Agile solutions to meet our unique needs.”

Key to maintaining Arima Communications’ competitive edge in the global mobile device market is the ability to provide quick customization and global logistics solutions. Through its use of Agile 9.2, the company is able to optimize its collaboration and communication across the entire supply chain – from design to new product introduction to ramp to volume and end of life. In addition, Agile 9.2 enables Arima Communications to meet stringent environmental regulations, such as the European Union’s Restrictions of Hazardous Substance (RoHS), by managing environmental compliance across the product lifecycle to collect, track, analyze and report on hazardous material content in products.

“Arima Communications is a global leader because of its ability to provide customers with high-quality, advanced communications technology. Delivering on this promise requires rigorous control of product quality, global production capacity and delivery time,” said Jay Fulcher, Agile president and CEO. “We are excited by the success of our customers in Taiwan, and are pleased to provide Arima Communications with greater product insight and control through its deployment of Agile 9.2.”

Arima Communications is currently in the process of implementing additional Agile PLM solutions, including Agile Product Portfolio Management and Agile Product Quality Management.

About Agile Software Corporation

Agile Software Corporation (NASDAQ: AGIL) helps companies drive profits, accelerate innovation, improve quality, enable globalization and ensure regulatory compliance throughout the product lifecycle. With a broad suite of enterprise class PLM solutions and time-to-value focused implementations, Agile helps companies get the most from their products. 3COM, Acer, Bayer, Broadcom, CooperVision, Dell Inc., Flextronics International, Foxconn, GE Medical Systems, Harris, Heinz, Johnson & Johnson, Johnson Diversey, Lockheed Martin, McAfee, McDonald’s, Micron, Philips, QUALCOMM, Sharp, Shell, Siemens, Tyco Healthcare and ZF are among the over 11,000 customers in the automotive, aerospace and defense, consumer packaged goods, electronics, high tech, industrial products, and life sciences industries that have licensed Agile solutions. For more information, call 408-284-4000 or visit www.agile.com.



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