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Agile Achieves “Powered by SAP NetWeaver®” Certification
September 26, 2006

BERLIN, Germany, September 26, 2006 - Agile Software Corporation (Nasdaq: AGIL), a leading provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) solutions, today announced that its Agile 9.2 PLM solution has obtained “Powered by SAP NetWeaver®” certification.

Specifically, Agile 9.2 achieved “Powered by SAP NetWeaver®” certification on the J2EE Deployment (J2EE-DEP) and SAP NetWeaver Portal Business Package (EP-BP) components. During the certification of the J2EE-DEP, SAP verified that the Agile 9.2 PLM application is “J2EE Specification compliant” and can be deployed and run on the J2EE Engine of SAP NetWeaver Application Server. In Enterprise Portal 6.0, the certification scenario for portlet integration, the Agile developed PLM iViews were shown compliant. Additionally, the EP-BP certification verified the structure and the deployment of a “Business Package” developed and delivered by Agile “Achieving “Powered by SAP NetWeaver®” certification will benefit Agile customers who have decided to implement SAP’s Enterprise Service Architecture and the NetWeaver platform,” said Chris Wong, Agile executive vice president, corporate strategy. “This effort was driven by our common customers, resulting in offering Agile’s industry best practice PLM solutions, co-existent with SAP solutions. Development of pre-packaged, certified applications dramatically increases customer time-to-value through the rapid deployment of Agile’s PLM applications.”

A comprehensive integration and application platform, SAP NetWeaver works with existing IT infrastructure to enable and manage change. With SAP NetWeaver, companies can flexibly and rapidly design, build, implement and execute new business strategies and processes. The platform enables companies to drive innovation throughout their organizations by recomposing existing systems while maintaining a sustainable cost structure. “This certification demonstrates Agile's commitment to support the SAP Netweaver Platform and offer customers the opportunity to leverage their existing SAP applications, which should result in a lower total cost of ownership," said Ashok Santhanam, president and CEO, Bristlecone. "We are delighted that Agile, a recognized leader in enterprise PLM, chose to partner with Bristlecone to develop and certify their applications using Bristlecone Labs services, a division focused on enabling ISV's with SAP Ecosystem. With SAP NetWeaver gaining worldwide adoption, Bristlecone and Agile are offering our customers the dedicated expertise, experience, products and services required to be successful.”

About Agile Software Corporation

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 and its 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.

Note: Agile, Agile Software and the Agile logo are registered trademarks and Agile On Demand, Agile Advantage, Agile Product Collaboration, Agile Product Cost Management, Agile Product Governance & Compliance, Agile Product Service & Improvement, Agile Product Quality Management, Agile Product Portfolio Management, Agile Engineering Collaboration, Agile Product Interchange and AgileMD are trademarks of Agile Software Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries. All other brand or product names are trademarks and registered trademarks of their respective holders.
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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