Agile Software Launches Agile Engineering Suite

Comprehensive Solution Suite Addresses the Specific Requirements of The Engineering Organization

Agile Enterprise Application Platform Leverages Engineering Assets and Enables Companies to Manage Products Across the Entire Product Profit Cycle

SAN JOSE, California - August 6, 2002 - /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Agile Software Corporation (NASDAQ:AGIL) today launched the Agile Engineering suite, a comprehensive suite of business-ready solutions that extends product lifecycle management (PLM) directly to the engineering organization. This new suite of product offerings builds on Agile's recognized leadership and core capabilities in product lifecycle management -- which have enabled over 800 companies to more rapidly deliver innovative, higher quality, and more profitable products to market.

In today's highly competitive product development environment, the engineering organization needs to effectively manage design processes to ensure that products are delivered on time and meet cost targets. Agile Engineering provides tight program management, effective release to manufacturing transitions, and the ability to interact with rich product data directly from within native engineering design applications. The suite also offers real-time design collaboration among design teams, customers, and suppliers.

As product profit cycles shrink, it is critical to product profitability that design and development processes are managed effectively and tightly integrated with downstream processes. With the addition of Agile Engineering to the Agile8(TM) enterprise application platform, enterprises are now able to deploy a single comprehensive platform to fully address every facet of product lifecycle management -- including business processes within and across enterprises, as well as by product lifecycle stage and by organization.

"By effectively integrating our design process with downstream processes, Agile has enhanced McDATA's business model, enabling us to effectively manage our supplier/partner relationships, leverage the product record across the entire product lifecycle, and cut product costs while improving product quality," states Don Wenninger, CIO of McDATA. "Agile helps drive competitive advantage by enabling McDATA to execute more quickly to deliver innovative, higher quality products to market."

"With Agile Engineering, Agile has expanded its footprint to significantly address the needs of the engineering organization. Building on its core strength, Agile now addresses upstream and downstream PLM business processes, applying best practices from their large customer base. Agile Engineering also addresses the growing trend toward outsourced design and engineering, extending from the company's market leadership in manufacturing outsourcing," states Stan Przybylinski, senior consultant at CIMdata, a market research and consulting firm focused on the product lifecycle management space. "CIMdata forecasts overall PLM investments to continue growing at a strong pace over the next five years and Agile is strongly positioned to take advantage of that growth."

Comprehensive Solution Suite for the Engineering Organization 

Available today, Agile Engineering offers a broad suite of solutions to ensure that engineering processes are fully leveraged throughout the product lifecycle and to drive engineering best practices across the enterprise:

- - Agile Program Execution(TM)
Enables enterprise class program management that allows enterprises to manage their design, development and manufacturing programs, both internally and across extended supplier networks.

- - Agile Design Collaboration(TM)
Provides real-time, interactive collaboration environment for manufacturers to securely share critical design information within their organizations and across their extended value chains with customers and suppliers.

- - Agile Design Publication(TM)
Drives rapid and effective engineering-to-manufacturing transitions. Also allows seamless transformation of design data, speeds prototyping and sourcing, and ensures design integrity across engineering to manufacturing processes.

- - Agile Engineering Desktop(TM)
Extends the Agile enterprise application platform to design applications, enabling engineers to access, create, change and manage the product record directly from the engineering authoring desktop.

- - Agile Product Definition and Change Collaboration(TM) 
Offers definition and collaboration about new and changing product information within an enterprise and across extended supplier networks.

- - Agile Design for Supply & Cost(TM) 
Provides the ability to assess and manage product costs and sourcing lead-times across all trading partners early in the development process, thus minimizing the impact of supplier risk during new product introduction (NPI) while supporting enterprise global sourcing strategies.

- - Agile Design for Service & Improvement (TM) Provides access to detailed product requirements, manufacturing data and service history during concept, development and prototyping - ensuring that products are designed for manufacturability while meeting customer and market requirements.

"Prior to our use of Agile, our design release process was challenging and varied across business units, with inconsistent data, CAD formats, and vaulting methods across divisions, regions, and engineers. Agile Engineering provides an infrastructure backbone that enables the engineering organization to facilitate and automate the standardization of our release process, conventions, and formats. This capability helps to publish design data efficiently and with integrity to the Agile product system of record for sharing with supply chain partners," states William Palleschi, director of corporate engineering at Credence.

Agile Engineering Suite Addresses Outsourcing Growth Trends

In response to the market need for rapid innovation and product delivery, companies are now outsourcing an increasingly large segment of the value chain, beyond just manufacturing. Global enterprises now require a comprehensive solution that addresses outsourcing across the product lifecycle, inclusive of design, sourcing, cost management and manufacturing services.

Effectively managing outsourced design processes is now critical to successful and profitable product development. The Agile Engineering suite provides companies with the ability to drive design collaboration within an enterprise and between external design partners.

Complete Product Record Solution Across the Product Lifecycle

With the Agile Engineering Suite and the Agile8 enterprise application platform, companies can now manage products across both the extended supply network and across the entire product lifecycle -- from concept to engineering, release to manufacturing, ramp to volume, through after-sales service and end of life. By unifying the various organizations that drive product profitability -- engineering, purchasing, manufacturing, and service -- with a single comprehensive solution to manage the product record across the extended value chain, global enterprises can ensure that assets are leveraged and profits are maximized.

"Driven by customer demand and the outsourcing trend that began with manufacturing -- and has now  advanced to outsourced design and engineering -- Agile is responding with a comprehensive product life cycle management platform that provides business-ready, best practice solutions across the entire product lifecycle," states Bryan Stolle, chairman and CEO. "Our strong foundational experience in providing product lifecycle management solutions to over 800 market-leading customers uniquely qualifies Agile to deliver the most comprehensive solution to the engineering organization."

About Agile8

The Agile8(TM) enterprise application platform helps companies manage their products through every phase of the product profit cycle. The integrated set of solutions helps companies communicate and collaborate internally as well as externally with customers and supply chain partners. Available t oday, Agile8 includes Agile Product Collaboration(TM), Agile Product Sourcing(TM), Agile Product Service & Improvement(TM), Agile Program Execution(TM), and Agile Engineering(TM) application suites -- which deliver significant bottom-line results by helping companies manage materials costs, rapidly introduce products to meet market demand, and improve productivity and product quality.

About Agile Software

Agile Software Corporation provides product lifecycle management (PLM) solutions that help companies build better, more profitable products faster. Approximately 825 companies use Agile solutions as the system of record for their products, including Metaldyne, Behr, Alps, Lennox, B/E Aerospace, Compaq, Dell Computer, Flextronics International, FujiFilm, GE Medical, InFocus, International Paper, Juniper Networks, Lucent, Nvidia, Philips, Precor, and Texas Instruments. Agile Product Collaboration, Agile Product Sourcing and Agile Product Service & Improvement solutions help companies reduce materials costs, rapidly introduce products to meet demand, and substantially improve productivity and product quality. 

http://www.agile.com/ 

 

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