CIENA Signs Multiyear Deal With Agile and Realizes Quick Time to Benefit
SAN JOSE, Calif., July 30 /PRNewswire/ -- As companies respond to the economic climate, more emphasis is placed on choosing solutions that provide a quick time to benefit. That is a major reason CIENA chose Agile Software Corporation (Nasdaq: AGIL), and its quickly deployed, mission critical solution -- Agile Anywhere(TM) -- to streamline business processes, drive market share, and provide quick return on investment.
CIENA (Nasdaq: CIEN), a global leader in intelligent optical networking systems and software, has signed a multi-million dollar license agreement to use Agile Anywhere, a web-based suite of collaborative manufacturing solutions, to improve operational efficiency with its internal divisions, suppliers, and customers worldwide.
"CIENA is focused on accommodating the dynamics of a constantly changing environment and realizing the bottom-line benefit. As our company continues to grow, Agile solutions provide the scalability to expand, helping to drive market share," said Mike Steenberge, Vice President of Information Systems for CIENA. "Agile is helping us to introduce new products faster, supporting our dedication to customer responsiveness, and enhancing our success as a leader in the intelligent optical networking industry."
Agile Anywhere is a complete suite of collaborative manufacturing solutions that enable manufacturers to build private product manufacturing collaboration exchanges, totally automating the distribution and synchronization of product content across the supply chain, with all information and services available through Agile eHubs(TM). In addition to using Agile Anywhere, CIENA has deployed Agile Integration Server(TM) (AIS) -- an XML-based integration solution that makes the valuable product content (product DNA) held in Agile Anywhere available to other mission-critical business applications at CIENA such as Oracle ERP.
Bryan D. Stolle, CEO and chairman of Agile said, "CIENA's drive to scale with its growing industry supports its position as an intelligent optical networking leader. Agile is proud to be a key element of CIENA's collaborative processes across all its divisions and its key supply-base partners, especially when the economic situation puts even greater importance on attention to costs, business processes, and the bottom-line."
About Agile
Agile Software Corporation enables supply chain partners to communicate and collaborate over the Internet about new or changing product content and then source and procure necessary components. Agile has more than 700 customers, including Compaq, Dell Computer, Flextronics International, GE Medical, International Paper, Juniper Networks, Lucent, NVIDIA, Philips, Sycamore Networks, Texas Instruments, and Zhone Technologies. Call 408-975-3900, or visit Agile at agilesoft.com .
This "Safe Harbor" Statement Under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995: Information in this release that involves Agile's beliefs, hopes, plans, expectations, intentions or strategies regarding the future and consists of forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties, which are based upon information available to Agile on as of the date of the release, and we assume no obligation to update any such forward-looking statement. These statements are not guarantees of future performance and actual results could differ materially from our current expectations. Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include, but are not limited to, declining economic conditions including a possible recession, cutbacks by our customers in their purchases of software such as ours, delays and difficulties in introducing new products and upgrades of existing versions of our products; lack of market acceptance of Agile Anywhere or other new products or services; inability to continue timely delivery of competitive new products and services; introduction of new products or services by major competitors; risks related to the Internet on our business and prospects; and our ability to recruit or retain necessary personnel and significant fluctuations in our stock price. These and other risk factors and risks associated with our business are discussed in the Company's Form 10-K filed July 24, 2000 and Form 10-Q filed on March 12, 2001.
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SOURCE Agile Software Corporation
CO: Agile Software Corporation; CIENA
ST: California
IN: CPR STW
SU: LIC
07/30/2001 08:30 EDT prnewswire.com |
