CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
13 March 2006
Company News
Agile's SME Business Solutions Division Expands Product Offering and Global Presence; Highlights Include New Product Releases, Growing Customer List and Expanded Network of Global Resellers
Agile Software Corporation 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:
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 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 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 that enhance SME customers' ability to accelerate innovation, manage product costs, and compete with larger, better-resourced enterprises.
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.
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.
Dramatically expanded content for SME participants at AGILITY 2006 . Highlights of the SME-directed presence at AGILITY include:
• An 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."
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