Numico Selects Agile Software to Streamline Product Processes Across Entire Enterprise

Industry Leader in Baby Food and Clinical Nutrition To Manage Product Lifecycle with Agile’s Food & Beverage Solution

San Jose, CA—January 16, 2007 - Agile Software Corporation (Nasdaq: AGIL), a leading provider of product lifecycle management solutions, today announced that Numico, the European and Asia Pacific market leader in baby food and clinical nutrition, has selected Agile PLM to manage product data and streamline product processes across the entire enterprise. Agile is the leading food & beverage PLM solution in the consumer packaged goods industry, providing comprehensive, end-to-end capabilities across the entire product lifecycle.

“We selected Agile because of the company’s unrivaled reputation in helping the world’s leading food and beverage companies address the industry’s unique set of challenges,” said Daniel Flipse, business project manager, product data management, Numico. “It was clear from the start that Agile really understood our business and could provide concrete examples of how their solution will help us accelerate revenues, reduce the cost of goods, drive quality, and ensure compliance across the entire lifecycle.”

Based in the Netherlands, Numico is acknowledged as the European and Asia Pacific market leader in baby food and clinical nutrition. Numico is the world’s fastest growing international special nutrition company, with famous brands, like Nutricia, Milupa, Cow & Gate, Mellin and Dumex, which are delivered to over 100 countries.

Faced with global raw materials and packaging specifications, tremendous international growth, and an increasingly extensive product portfolio, Numico required a way to manage its product data across its global operations. Numico selected Agile’s best in class solution due to its unmatched track record in helping some of the world’s largest food and beverage companies with product lifecycle management. Agile’s food & beverage solutions are based in part on a solution developed by Prodika, a company that Agile acquired in June 2006.

Agile will provide Numico with an end-to-end PLM solution to manage all product specifications from raw materials to finished products, supplier approvals across the global supply chain, formulas, and packaging and labeling, while providing a basis to ensure compliance with rules and regulations about labels and product quality. As a single source for all product related data, Agile will help Numico integrate enterprise-wide data management processes, while seamlessly integrating systems to improve efficiency and drive quality.

Numico will use Agile PLM to coordinate the cross-functional product data across its worldwide organizations. With more than 13,000 global employees, Numico requires the close coordination of research, manufacturing, and support functions across its global operations to deliver high-quality products that meet customers' demands while still achieving low cost production. Agile PLM provides Numico with the ability to get detailed product information throughout the enterprise in a simple and easy fashion and then consistently manage this product data.

“In the competitive and highly regulated food & beverage industry, PLM can provide the competitive edge that makes the difference between product success and failure. Our acquisition of Prodika provides the market with the broadest and richest PLM solution for this large but under-penetrated industry,” said Jay B. Fulcher, Agile president and CEO. “Working with a global leader like Numico further validates our strategy in the global food and beverage industry, and further positions us as the leading PLM provider in consumer packaged goods. We will continue to help our customers accelerate innovation, increase profits and drive competitive advantage through lower product costs and improved product performance—all while ensuring product and supplier compliance.”

About Numico

Royal Numico is a high-growth, high-margin specialised nutrition company with leading positions in Baby Food and Clinical Nutrition and brings products to the market under the brand names Nutricia, Milupa, Cow & Gate, Mellin and Dumex, among others. The company serves customers in over 100 countries and employs approx. 13,000 people (see also: www.numico.com)

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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