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October 24, 2004
Company News
Agile 9 Certified as CMII Compliant by the Institute of Configuration Management
Agile Software Corporation 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.
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