Software Magazine Ranks PLM Vendor as One of the World's Leading Software Companies for Fourth Consecutive Year
SAN JOSE, Calif., Nov. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Agile Software
Corporation (Nasdaq: AGIL - News), a leading provider of product lifecycle management
solutions, today announced its inclusion in the Software 500 for the fourth
consecutive year. Each year, Software Magazine ranks the world's foremost
software and services providers, published as an online catalog on
www.Softwaremag.com.
In 2005, Agile Software continued its momentum among enterprises in the
electronics and high tech, life sciences, consumer packaged goods and
manufacturing industries. Agile also experienced success with the release of
Agile 9.2, Agile's next generation release for managing the enterprise product
record throughout the product lifecycle. Customer wins and expansions in 2005
included 3Dconnexion, Ball Aerospace, Ballard, Braun, Coherent, Finisar,
Funai, Haemonetics, Hitachi, IBM, Juniper, Philips, QUALCOMM, Siemens, Symbol
Technologies, Tyco Healthcare, Viasat and ZF.
In addition to Agile's organic growth in 2005, the company also grew by
acquiring Cimmetry Systems, a leading provider of collaborative visualization
solutions including AutoVue(TM), with over 10,000 customers worldwide across a
wide range of industries. Collaborative visualization is an important PLM
infrastructure component that enables a much broader set of people both inside
and beyond a company to drive critical product decisions.
"Agile's inclusion in the Software 500 for the fourth consecutive year
illustrates Agile's continued commitment to providing our over 11,000
worldwide customers with the most robust and comprehensive PLM solutions in
the market," said Jay Fulcher, Agile CEO and president. "We have expanded the
breadth of our PLM solutions to help companies drive value and deliver results
by providing the domain expertise and industry best practices companies need
to improve their bottom line."
The Software 500 ranking, the best-known ranking in the industry, is a
revenue-based industry ranking of the leading software and services companies
targeting the enterprise, now in its 24th year. The Searchable Software 500 on
Softwaremag.com enables registered site visitors to identify the leading
software and service providers by their category of business focus.
"The overall strength of the software and services industries has
improved, with revenue for the 2006 Software 500 at $380.8 billion worldwide
for 2005, representing just under a 1% decline from previous year. The
industry continues to be dynamic, with nearly 90 new companies on the 2006
Software 500 list," said John P. Desmond, editor of Software Magazine and
Softwaremag.com. "We help our readers and site visitors in Information
Technology management to narrow down their choice of software product and
service providers they choose to work with in tackling business priorities."
About Agile Software Corporation
Agile Software Corporation helps companies drive profits, accelerate
innovation, improve quality, enable globalization 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. 3COM, Acer, Bayer, Broadcom,
CooperVision, Dell Inc., Flextronics International, Foxconn, GE Medical
Systems, Harris, Heinz, Johnson & Johnson, Johnson Diversey, Lockheed Martin,
McAfee, McDonald's, Micron, Philips, QUALCOMM, Sharp, Shell, Siemens, Tyco
Healthcare and ZF are among the over 11,000 customers in the automotive,
aerospace and defense, consumer packaged goods, 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.
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