Agile to incorporate SymphonyRPM analytical platform into PLM solutions in bid to promote better analysis and decision-making across the product lifecycle
Palo Alto, CA — April 12, 2006 — SymphonyRPM, a provider of an integrated enterprise platform for forward-looking performance management and predictive business analytics, has been selected by Agile Software, a provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) solutions, for a technology partnership that will enable the delivery of a new class of decision-centric, analytics-based PLM offering to market, the two solution providers have announced.
Through this partnership, Agile will leverage the SymphonyRPM platform to build scenario-based analytics capabilities into its enterprise PLM offerings. Agile customers will have the potential to benefit from increased visibility into the drivers of product excellence across revenue, cost, quality, compliance and innovation. Customers will also benefit from being able to improve and automate decision-making throughout the product lifecycle and the extended enterprise.
"This partnership with SymphonyRPM is an important step in meeting our customers' increasing demand for greater analytics capabilities that help them better manage their product lifecycles," said Tal Ball, Agile chief technology officer and senior vice president for products and technology. "We selected the SymphonyRPM platform based on the power and scalability of its analytics engine, breadth of end-user capabilities, ease-of-integration with our existing PLM solutions, and depth of domain knowledge of the SymphonyRPM team."
With the SymphonyRPM platform, Agile is developing a new family of what it calls "product performance analytics solutions" designed to connect its customers' business strategies with their PLM strategies. Agile PLM customers will also benefit from the combination of a collaborative Web-based analytic interface and SymphonyRPM's ability to incorporate and automate the entire decision-making cycle by leveraging "what if" analysis and structured decision workflow capabilities, according to SymphonyRPM.
For example, Agile customers will have the ability to explore trade-off type scenarios to see the immediate result of a change in component cost, quality or lead-time at any level of the product hierarchy or to model resource allocation scenarios across their product portfolios. Once a "best-fit" scenario is identified, it can then be routed to the necessary decision-makers for approval and implementation in their Agile PLM solution providing an integrated closed-loop "analysis to decision" process.
"Agile customers benefit from being able to gain insight into market trends and get out ahead of competitive pressures by employing 'what-if' scenarios and adjusting their product strategies on the fly to improve profitability and protect market share," said Bennett Indart, vice president of products at SymphonyRPM.
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Palo Alto, CA — April 12, 2006 — SymphonyRPM, a provider of an integrated enterprise platform for forward-looking performance management and predictive business analytics, has been selected by Agile Software, a provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) solutions, for a technology partnership that will enable the delivery of a new class of decision-centric, analytics-based PLM offering to market, the two solution providers have announced.
Through this partnership, Agile will leverage the SymphonyRPM platform to build scenario-based analytics capabilities into its enterprise PLM offerings. Agile customers will have the potential to benefit from increased visibility into the drivers of product excellence across revenue, cost, quality, compliance and innovation. Customers will also benefit from being able to improve and automate decision-making throughout the product lifecycle and the extended enterprise.
"This partnership with SymphonyRPM is an important step in meeting our customers' increasing demand for greater analytics capabilities that help them better manage their product lifecycles," said Tal Ball, Agile chief technology officer and senior vice president for products and technology. "We selected the SymphonyRPM platform based on the power and scalability of its analytics engine, breadth of end-user capabilities, ease-of-integration with our existing PLM solutions, and depth of domain knowledge of the SymphonyRPM team."
With the SymphonyRPM platform, Agile is developing a new family of what it calls "product performance analytics solutions" designed to connect its customers' business strategies with their PLM strategies. Agile PLM customers will also benefit from the combination of a collaborative Web-based analytic interface and SymphonyRPM's ability to incorporate and automate the entire decision-making cycle by leveraging "what if" analysis and structured decision workflow capabilities, according to SymphonyRPM.
For example, Agile customers will have the ability to explore trade-off type scenarios to see the immediate result of a change in component cost, quality or lead-time at any level of the product hierarchy or to model resource allocation scenarios across their product portfolios. Once a "best-fit" scenario is identified, it can then be routed to the necessary decision-makers for approval and implementation in their Agile PLM solution providing an integrated closed-loop "analysis to decision" process.
"Agile customers benefit from being able to gain insight into market trends and get out ahead of competitive pressures by employing 'what-if' scenarios and adjusting their product strategies on the fly to improve profitability and protect market share," said Bennett Indart, vice president of products at SymphonyRPM.
Additional Articles of Interest
— How do you avoid losing a limb as you're working with new technologies? A supply chain icon offers his take on this conundrum. Read more in "Executive Memo: Stepping into the Deep Water," in the February/March 2006 issue of Supply & Demand Chain Executive.
— To build a competency in supply network design, this consumer products company first had to build confidence. Read more in "Designing the Best Supply Chain Gillette Can Get," in the February/March 2006 issue of Supply & Demand Chain Executive.
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