Leading digital communications manufacturer to drive product quality and customer satisfaction

Agile Software Corporation ( Nasdaq: AGIL ), the leading provider of product lifecycle management ( PLM ) solutions, today announced that ViaSat, an innovator in wireless communications, is expanding its PLM implementation to include Agile Product Service & Improvement ( PS&I ). ViaSat selected Agile PS&I based on the company’s successful implementation of Agile Product Collaboration. By adding Agile PS&I to its PLM deployment, ViaSat expects to drive product quality and customer satisfaction.

“As ViaSat faces increasing demand for its satellite communications and secure networking equipment, we will continue to provide our customers with the highest quality product and service. To meet these goals, the company selected Agile’s closed-loop corrective action system to help drive product quality, which will ultimately lead to higher customer satisfaction levels,” said Steve Hart, vice president of engineering and chief technical officer. “Based on our successful implementation of Agile Product Collaboration, we determined that we could use Agile PS&I to help integrate our product record and quality history to optimize engineering and development resource allocation, without changing our business processes.”

In 2003, ViaSat implemented Agile Product Collaboration solution to provide better visibility and control of the product record across the lifecycle, manage direct material costs, and improve product profitability. Within six months ViaSat experienced a 44 percent efficiency gain from the initial design to the completion of a product prototype, a 20 percent improvement in engineering change orders, and a 30 percent improvement in overall organizational efficiency.

“ViaSat recognized the value of PLM-based solutions in accelerating time-to-market for new products, improving margins for existing products, and improving the organization’s overall efficiency,” said Bryan Stolle, Agile CEO. “We are extremely pleased to see ViaSat experience immediate gains in these terms, and we anticipate that PS&I will continue to increase ViaSat’s overall value proposition to its customers.”

About ViaSat
ViaSat produces innovative satellite and other communication products that enable fast, secure, and efficient communications to any location. Products include satellite ground equipment, information security devices, tactical data radios, and communication simulators. ViaSat has a full line of VSAT products for data and voice applications, and is a market leader in Ka-band satellite systems, from user terminals to large gateways. ViaSat has locations in Carlsbad, CA, and Norcross, GA, along with its Comsat Laboratories division in Clarksburg, MD. Additional field offices are located in Boston, MA, Washington DC, Australia, Italy, China, and India .

In addition the company’s wholly-owned subsidiary, US Monolithics, designs and produces monolithic microwave integrated circuits ( MMICs ) and modules for use in broadband communications. USM is based in Chandler, Arizona .

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, time-to-value focused implementations, and a unique Guaranteed Business Results program, Agile helps companies get the most from their products. Alcatel, Boeing, Dell Inc., Flextronics International, GE Medical, Haemonetics, Hitachi, Johnson & Johnson, Leapfrog, Lockheed Martin, Magna Steyr, Siemens, QUALCOMM and ZF are among the over 1,200 customers in the automotive, aerospace and defense, consumer products, electronics, high tech, industrial products, and life sciences industries that have realized high impact results through their use of Agile solutions. For more information, call 408-284-4000 or visit www.agile.com.

Agile and Agile Software are registered trademarks and Agile On Demand, Agile Advantage, Agile Product Collaboration, Agile Product Cost Management, Agile Product Service & Improvement, Agile Program Execution, Agile Engineering Collaboration, Agile Product Interchange, AgileMD and the Agile logo are trademarks of Agile Software Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries. Guaranteed Business Results is a service mark of Agile Software Corporation. All other brand or product names are trademarks and registered trademarks of their respective holders.

Media Contacts:
Terri Pruett
Director of Corporate Communications
Agile Software
408-284-4048
terri.pruett@agile.com

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