Agile's SME Business Solutions Division Expands Product Offering and Global Presence
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Highlights include new product releases, growing customer list and expanded network of global resellers
SAN JOSE, Calif., March 13 -- Agile Software Corporation (NASDAQ:AGIL), a leading provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) solutions, today recognized a significant series of achievements by its small and medium enterprise (SME) Business Solutions Division during its first eighteen months of operation. The speed and scope of these accomplishments demonstrate Agile's ongoing commitment to and investment in SME customers, and further strengthens the PLM company's leadership position in the important SME market place.
Since being established in October 2005, specifically to serve the needs of small and medium enterprises, the SME Business Solutions Division has:
o Released two major new products: Agile continues to leverage its
market leadership and expertise at the enterprise level to create
solutions tailored to specifically meet the needs of the small and
medium enterprise.
- Agile Advantage 2005, a comprehensive suite of PLM solutions uniquely
designed to give SME customers the enterprise-critical benefits of
PLM, while enabling quick time to value, minimizing total cost of
ownership, and delivering the flexibility SME customers require.
- Agile Advantage 2006, a major new release which includes innovative
solutions to enable customers to easily manage product compliance;
manage standards compliance; and seamlessly link engineering data
with Agile Advantage. Additionally, Agile Advantage 2006 includes a
number of important functional and technical enhancements which
enhance SME customers' ability to accelerate innovation, manage
product costs, and compete with larger, better-resourced enterprises.
o Expanded its user base: In less than 18 months, Agile's SME Division
now serves approximately 200 customers in industries as diverse as
electronics and high-tech, medical devices, consumer packaged goods,
and industrial products. Moreover, customer adoption has rapidly
expanded beyond North America. In recent quarters, implementations of
Agile Advantage have been completed in China, France, Italy,
Switzerland, Australia, and Israel.
o Enlisted new reseller partners around the world: Agile's SME customers
are supported by an expanded roster of reseller partners in major world
markets, including GoEngineer, Doman Systems, J-Squared Technologies,
CADD Edge, TriMech Solutions, and Zero Wait-State in North America;
Systematics, Minerva, WM-Data, Espedia Consulting, and Bildem in
Europe; and Suzsoft in China.
o Dramatically expanded content for SME participants at AGILITY 2006.
Highlights of the SME-directed presence at AGILITY include:
- A dramatically expanded SME Pavilion at AGILITY featuring product
demonstrations and participation by five Authorized Agile Advantage
Value Added Reseller partners.
- Industry track and general session content presented by SME
customers.
- Solutions track content spotlighting: "What's New in Agile Advantage
2006?"; "Product Compliance Management in Depth"; and "Engineering
Data eXchange (EDX) in Depth."
"Agile is committed to maintaining its leadership position in the PLM solutions market," said Craig Livingston, vice president of worldwide SME operations at Agile. "Such leadership means delivering world-class solutions to each segment of the market, including the small and medium enterprise segment. We are pleased that our first 18 months of focus on the SME customer has delivered such a list of achievements. More importantly, however, we look forward to building on those achievements in the future."
About Agile Software Corporation
Agile Software Corporation 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 and time-to-value focused implementations, Agile helps companies get the most from their products. Small and medium enterprises including Colubris Networks, McAfee, Ondine Biopharma, OnStor, Sonic Innovations, Visx, as well as large and global enterprises such as Alcatel, Boeing, Dell Inc., Flextronics International, Hitachi, Leapfrog, Lockheed Martin, Magna Steyr, Siemens, QUALCOMM and ZF are among the nearly 10,000 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. Agile OnDemand is a Software as a Service (SaaS) version of the Agile Advantage solution. Agile also offers an Agile OnDemand PLM Small Business Startup Pack, at no charge, for qualified customers in the small enterprise market. Agile OnDemand is the lowest total cost of ownership PLM solution. For more information, call 408-284-4000 or visit http://sme.agile.com/.
Source: Agile Software Corporation
CONTACT: main, +1-408-284-4000, or fax, +1-408-284-4002, or Terri Pruett
of Agile Software Corporation, +1-408-284-4048, or Terri.Pruett@agile.com
Web site: http://www.agile.com/
