AUTONOMY AND AGILE PARTNER TO CREATE INTEGRATED SOLUTION FOR PRODUCT LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT INFORMATION DISCOVERY
San Francisco, Calif. September 15, 2006 - Autonomy Corporation plc (LSE: AU. or AU.L), a global leader in infrastructure software for the enterprise, and Agile Software Corporation (Nasdaq: AGIL), a leading provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) solutions, today announced a partnership to jointly market a solution that enables companies to discover product content throughout the enterprise. The solution combines best-of-breed Product Lifecycle Management and Information Discovery and allows users to securely discover and understand the relationships between information components managed within Agile and other enterprise systems such as ERP, CRM, Requirements Management and ECM. The integrated solution of Autonomy and Agile PLM delivers to users a convergence of structured data and unstructured content to improve decision making throughout the product lifecycle.
This solution is being driven by customers with multiple departments such as, engineering, marketing, purchasing and finance, who need to retrieve information from various repositories for the purpose of improving product quality, costs and time to market. Integration with Autonomy technology improves the speed and accuracy of discovery to gain insight on issues ranging from design to project or product completion. The solution is currently in production at one of the world's largest network infrastructure providers and will soon be in production at one of the world's largest digital wireless communications service providers.
"By embedding Autonomy's capabilities into Agile's PLM offerings, both novice and "power" users can now easily locate and retrieve both structured and unstructured product content from Agile and other enterprise systems," said Stouffer Egan, CEO, Autonomy, Inc. "The result is increased utilization of the Agile system by a broader set of users, improved management of engineering changes and improved parts/design reuse. This leads to a shorter time to market."
"We see enormous value in providing users with information analysis and retrieval across multiple repositories from the Agile system. Autonomy's ability to organize content and allow users to easily traverse through complex data relationships, ensures users quickly and accurately narrow down vast volumes of information to the critical few pieces they need to do their jobs," said Chris Wong, Agile executive vice president, Corporate Strategy.
The Autonomy/Agile solution was developed by the vdR Group and is a fully supported, off-the-shelf solution available from Autonomy. The solution adheres to Autonomy's development standards and can operate within various applications, as a standalone browser-based solution, or within various portal environments.
"Product content within an enterprise resides in various and most often disparate applications and repositories. Moreover, valuable information is characterized in unstructured data, such as attachments with specifications, drawings, models, etc. What makes this solution so powerful, is that we can now provide users with the ability to access all data associated with a product or part regardless of where, or even if, it is fully defined," said Martin van der Roest, president of the vdR Group.
About Agile
Agile Software Corporation (NASDAQ: AGIL) 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, time-to-value focused implementations, Agile helps companies get the most from their products. Alcatel, Bayer, Dell Inc., Flextronics International, Foxconn, Harris, Hitachi, Leapfrog, Lockheed Martin, Magna Steyr, Playtex, Siemens, Quanta, QUALCOMM and ZF are among the over 10,000 customers in the automotive, aerospace and defense, consumer products, 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.
About vdR
The vdR Group is a software development company focused exclusively on working with partners to integrate various product lifecycle and content management applications within manufacturing and engineering oriented environments. Extensive domain expertise exists for CAD, electronic content management (ECM), ERP, product data/product lifecycle management (PDM/PLM) and search engine/classification applications. It is estimated that there are over 60,000 users of the Group's various technologies.
As a partner with Autonomy, the Group has embedded search and classification functionality within Autodesk products, Agile, OpenText's Livelink, MatrixOne, and Telelogic's DOORS. Other integrations are in process. Building on the Autonomy framework, the Group has developed various technical extensions that provide a unified search environment featuring a product and part centric single point of entry user interface, data analysis and discovery options leveraging combination of classifications and part specific parametrics, and taxonomy mapping and normalization.
About Autonomy
Autonomy Corporation plc (LSE: AU. or AU.L) is a global leader in infrastructure software for the enterprise and is spearheading the meaning-based computing movement. Autonomy's technology forms a conceptual and contextual understanding of any piece of electronic data including unstructured information, be it text, email, voice or video. Autonomy's software powers the full spectrum of mission-critical enterprise applications including information access technology, BI, CRM, KM, call center solutions, rich media management, compliance and litigation solutions and security applications, and is recognized by industry analysts as the clear leader in enterprise search.
Autonomy's customer base comprises more than 16,000 global companies and organizations including BAE Systems, Boeing, Ford, Daimler Chrysler, Shell, AOL, BBC, Reuters, Hutchison 3G, Ericsson, T-Mobile, Coca Cola, Kraft Foods, Nestle, Lloyds TSB, GlaxoSmithKline, KPMG, Citigroup, ABN AMRO, Deutsche Bank, Nomura, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the New York Stock Exchange, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, NASA and the U.S. Department of Energy. Autonomy has over 300 OEM partners and more than 350 VARs and Integrators, numbering among them leading companies such as BEA, Business Objects, Citrix, EDS, IBM Global Services, Novell, Vignette, Tibco, Stellent, Symantec and Sybase. The company has offices worldwide.
The Autonomy Group includes: Aungate, specialist in Real-Time Enterprise Governance; Virage, a visionary in Rich Media Management and Security and Surveillance technology; etalk, award-winning provider of enterprise-class contact center products, Cardiff, a leader in content capture and business process management solutions, and Ultraseek, a leading provider of business search engines.
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