Agile 9 Certified as CMII Compliant by the Institute of Configuration Management
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San Jose, CA - October 24, 2005 -Agile Software Corporation (Nasdaq: AGIL), a leading provider of product lifecycle management solutions, today announced that its PLM solution, Agile 9, has been CMII certified by the Institute of Configuration Management (ICM). Agile 9 now joins Agile e6 as CMII compliant, providing enhanced change management, product development and environmental compliance standards and best practices for the company's over 10,000 worldwide customers.
"Agile 9's CMII certification indicates our commitment to providing our customers with a PLM solution that incorporates the leading configuration management practices," said Ray Hein, Agile vice president of product strategy. "By including these management principles into our solutions, our customers can improve the efficiency of their processes and increase the quality of their products. In the world of global and outsourced value chains, access to this information puts them at a distinct competitive advantage."
According to the Institute of Configuration Management, Configuration Management is the process of managing products, facilities and processes by managing their requirements, including changes, and assuring conformance in each case. Viewed by configuration management professionals worldwide as the most robust standard for product design and change management, CMII expands the scope of Configuration Management to include any information that could impact safety, quality, schedule, cost, profit or the environment.
CMII is configuration management plus continuous improvement in the following five areas: (1) accommodate change, (2) accommodate the reuse of proven standards and best practices, (3) assure that all requirements remain clear, concise and valid, (4) communicate (1), (2) and (3) promptly and precisely and (5) assure that the results conform in each case.
"CMII is a methodology for accommodating change and ensuring that design and process-related information remain clear, concise and valid," said Vince Guess, President of the Institute of Configuration Management. "Our certification of a software tool serves to formally acknowledge that it has the functionality required to support the CMII methodology. Through our certification process, we find Agile 9 and Agile e6 to be very robust in this regard."
Agile 9, Agile's next generation release for managing the enterprise product record throughout the product lifecycle, provides the most powerful and comprehensive release in Agile's history. Agile 9 supports the product lifecycle business process, technology platform, and integration requirements of companies in the aerospace and defense, automotive, consumer packaged goods, electronics, industrial products, and life sciences industries. With Agile 9, global enterprises have an unprecedented breadth of capabilities for harnessing the product record as the key intellectual asset to drive competitive advantage, profitability, compliance, and long-term growth.
Agile e6 focuses on organizing and managing product design assets to support globally distributed engineering teams. It is specifically designed for complex engineering organizations in the automotive, aerospace & defense, and industrial machinery industries to manage complex products throughout the product lifecycle. With its unique capabilities for the early development phase, Agile e6 helps companies deliver a higher rate of success on new product introductions.
About ICM
The Institute of Configuration Management (ICM), headquartered in Scottsdale, Ariz., is best known for its CMII process, which is accepted by Configuration Management professionals worldwide as a "best industry practice." The organization's mission is to represent the best industry practice, maintaining excellence in how we deliver our services, helping software companies provide enabling tools with proper functionality, and providing oversight as needed to ensure that implementations are successful.
ICM promotes the CMII model by means of educational training, certification programs and industry events. Courses are held throughout the USA as well as Europe, Australia and South Africa every year. Over 600 major enterprises in 26 countries have sent staff members on CMII training and certification programs and many have adopted the CMII process model for their organizations. Further information on ICM is available at www.icmhq.com.
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 Results program, Agile helps companies get the most from their products. Alcatel, Boeing, Dell Inc., Flextronics International, Hitachi, Leapfrog, Lockheed Martin, Magna Steyr, Siemens, QUALCOMM and ZF are among the over 10,000 customers in the automotive, aerospace and defense, consumer products, 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.
