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Agile Software Outsources Worldwide IT Infrastructure to OpSource
Turnkey IT Services Delivered in US, India, China, Germany and Switzerland
SANTA CLARA, Calif., -- June 7, 2004 OpSource, Inc., a next-generation IT infrastructure services company, today announced a three-year partnership to manage Agile Software Corporation's (Nasdaq: AGIL) worldwide network and application hosting infrastructure, including locations in the United States, India, China, Germany and Switzerland. Key members of Agile's IT staff in the US and India have joined the OpSource technical team, thereby ensuring continuity and knowledge transfer. This agreement underscores OpSource's core competencies in delivering reliable, high yield IT services, and firmly establishes the Company as an emerging leader in global outsourced IT infrastructure services.
"This is a strategic move for Agile, one that will reduce our IT expenses by 20% while improving the range and quality of the IT services that we use," stated Carolyn Aver, CFO, Agile. "We're confident that OpSource's comprehensive approach to IT outsourcing makes them the right choice for Agile. Moreover, OpSource's talent, experience, operational infrastructure, and best-of- breed processes promise a smooth transition to an outsourced IT model."
OpSource is responsible for monitoring and remotely managing the major hardware and software components of Agile's IT infrastructure. Services being provided include: managed network services; managed server services including monitoring and remote management of Agile's internal server infrastructure up to the operating system level; management of Agile's unified Voice-over-IP (VoIP) messaging system; and management of Agile's hosted application Product Life Cycle (PLM) solution server infrastructure, including application layer management and monitoring.
"Agile's commitment to continually driving down costs while maintaining service quality makes it an ideal partner for OpSource," said Treb Ryan, CEO of OpSource. "Our innovative Service Delivery Platform (SDP) makes outsourced global IT infrastructure services an affordable reality for companies that want a highly efficient and responsive IT organization."
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, and a unique Guaranteed Business Results program, Agile helps companies get the most from their products. Alcatel, Boeing, Dell Inc., Flextronics International, Hitachi, Leapfrog, Lockheed Martin, Magna Steyr, Siemens, QUALCOMM and ZF are among the nearly 1200 customers in the automotive, aerospace and defense, consumer products, electronics, high tech, industrial products, and life sciences industries that use Agile solutions. For more information, call 408-284-4000 or visit www.agile.com/plm/.
About OpSource
OpSource, Inc. is a global IT infrastructure services provider that enables ISVs, ASPs, telecommunications and hardware companies to seamlessly and effortlessly outsource IT services delivery while simultaneously reducing costs and improving quality. The innovative OpSource Service Delivery Platform (SDP) empowers companies, for the first time, to significantly reduce costs, raise the level of customer service and improve ongoing operational efficiencies. The SDP can reduce operational costs well over 40%, ensure 100% SLAs and efficiently integrate legacy systems into a next generation IT architecture within 45 days.
OpSource provides turnkey IT service delivery solutions ranging from data center technical staffing, remote hands services, monitoring, and security, to complex managed hosting, application hosting, ASP infrastructure and complete IT outsourcing for Global 2000 companies.
The company is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA, with additional operations in the Los Angeles, New York City, Denver, Chicago and Washington, D.C. metro areas, as well as international offices in London and Bangalore. For more information about OpSource, visit the company's Web site at opsource.net.
