Applicast Broadens Application Portfolio With Agile; Leading ASP Links Top Collaborative Manufacturing Tools With SAP for Rich e-Supply Chain Solution

Business Wire, March 20, 2000

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 20, 2000

Applicast(TM), Inc., the premier total-solution application service provider (ASP) for aggressive-growth companies, today announced that it has extended its application portfolio to include industry-leading collaborative manufacturing commerce solutions from Agile Software Corp. (Nasdaq:AGIL).

Applicast is partnering with Agile to resell, deploy and host Agile Anywhere(TM) to give its high-tech manufacturing customers a highly leveraged outsourcing solution that tightly integrates Agile software with an SAP enterprise resource planning (ERP) system.

Agile develops and markets award-winning, industry-leading software that enables supply chain partners to communicate and collaborate over the Internet about new or changing product content. Aggressive-growth manufacturers can now utilize Applicast's outsourcing services to link critical manufacturing and supply chain partners with their ERP system for a complete back-office to e-supply chain managed solution.

"The Agile solution is essential for competing effectively in the highly competitive, rapidly changing market of high-tech manufacturing, where lightning-fast product innovation is key," said John McGrory, Applicast president and CEO. "Agile's market leading products are a natural addition to our best-of-breed application portfolio, allowing us to further enhance our manufacturing-specific offerings with solutions that are critical to this industry."

Applicast develops and manages industry-specific solutions for companies in three high-growth vertical markets -- manufacturing, software and Internet services, and e-retail -- to bring its customers sophisticated, highly integrated outsourcing solutions that reflect the business processes of a given industry. In the manufacturing space, Applicast has developed a portfolio of aggressive-growth manufacturing companies that includes Proxim, Flash Electronics, CoSine Communications, CopperCom, Identix and LuxN.

"The manufacturing and SAP experts at Applicast take Agile's software and make it part of an overall, enterprise-wide process that spans the boundaries of the supply chain, linking OEM manufacturers, EMS providers, and suppliers into a seamless collaborative manufacturing commerce system," said Bryan D. Stolle, Chairman and CEO at Agile. "By closely connecting two mission-critical systems -- Agile and SAP -- Applicast gives manufacturers an outsourced solution that streamlines manufacturing processes across the entire supply chain, leveraging the strengths of each system, to dramatically reduce time to market and time to volume."

Through its partnership with Agile, Applicast has now expanded its application portfolio to include Agile Anywhere and along with Siebel Systems' (Nasdaq:SEBL) eBusiness Applications, SAP's (NYSE:SAP) leading back office applications, and Vitria's (Nasdaq:VITR) BusinessWare. Applicast serves as a single point of contact throughout all phases of the application lifecycle, including implementation, hosted operations, user and systems support and proactive evolution of the system as customers' needs change with growth.

"We've leveraged Applicast's business process expertise to link our Agile Anywhere system with our production planning and materials management processes in SAP," said Gabe Hebert, vice president of operations, CoSine Communications. "Now changes to bills of materials are immediately reflected in our financial and manufacturing systems, allowing us to shorten the time from design to manufacturing."

About Agile Software

Agile Software Corporation (Nasdaq:AGIL) is a leading supplier of business-to-business collaborative manufacturing commerce solutions. Agile products enable supply chain partners to communicate and collaborate over the Internet about new or changing product content, and then source and procure the required components. Customers include Dell Computer, Flextronics International, GE Medical Systems, Hewlett-Packard, Jabil Circuit, Lucent Technologies, Philips, Texas Instruments and others. For more information, call 408/975-3900, or visit Agile at http://www.agilesoft.com.

About Applicast

Based in Mountain View, Calif., Applicast, Inc. is the premier total-solution ASP for aggressive-growth companies. Bringing customers the power of top-tier business software without the pain, the Applicast Business Applications Network offers full-service application outsourcing for mission-critical applications, such as SAP R/3 and Siebel eBusiness Applications, over secure private or Internet connections. Applicast's unique combination of a world-class application portfolio, targeted FastFit(TM) solutions and full-lifecycle service enables its clients to slash the time, costs and risks of deploying top-tier systems.

To power its Business Applications Network, Applicast has developed relationships with SAP, Siebel Systems, Agile Software, Vitria Technology, BMC Software and GTE Data Services. Applicast is privately funded by leading investment organizations, including Trinity Ventures, Piper Jaffray Ventures, Bowman Capital Management, Crescendo Ventures, Bluewater Capital Management, Sippl Macdonald Ventures and MKS Ventures. More information is available at www.applicast.com.