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FORT WALTON BEACH, Fla., Oct. 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Total Parts Plus (TPP), a leading provider of obsolescence and environmental compliance solutions and data content, and Agile Software Corporation (NASDAQ:AGIL), a leading provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) solutions, announce that Symbol Technologies, Inc. (NYSE:SBL), has implemented the Total Parts Plus Content Adapter for Agile. Symbol is a recognized leader in providing mobility products and solutions that make people more effective by keeping them connected to business applications and information. The Content Adapter allows Symbol to directly access TPP's component information from within their Agile PLM solution and improves collaboration across its extended supply chain. Through this adapter, customers such as Symbol are able to leverage comprehensive content from TPP for use in Agile's Product Governance and Compliance (PG&C) solution. Agile's PG&C solution helps ensure compliance with product design goals including environmental directives such as the European Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) and Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE). Customers can gain direct access to TPP's component information including production status, lifecycle predictions, RoHS flagging, and full material content disclosure. "TPP and Agile share a common goal in providing a complete solution to Symbol," said Todd Montgomery, Vice President of Total Parts Plus. "We have combined our services, creating a user-friendly interface to provide realtime access to customers. The implementation of the Content Adapter illustrates the value of integrating component information into a PLM solution to solve our customer's problems." "We are excited to partner with Total Parts Plus and provide customers like Symbol with the ability to ensure compliance with product design goals, by locating and analyzing component data stored in the Total parts Plus Content Database," said Chris Wong, Agile executive vice president, corporate strategy. Paul Spengler, Components Engineering Group Manager at Symbol, stated that "the ability to access TPP's data from the Agile PLM tool not only allows realtime access to component information, but also saves us a tremendous amount of time from having to open multiple tools and merge data." About Total Parts Plus, Inc. Total Parts Plus specializes in obsolescence management and environmental compliance solutions in the form of data content, web-based products, and custom engineering services. TPP's suite of products and services provide information and reporting for Obsolescence Management, RoHS Compliance, Berry Amendment, Alternate Equivalents, Alternate Sourcing, PCN data, and Life Cycle Predictions. Total Parts Plus, which was founded in 2000, is a member of the Component Obsolescence Group (COG), NEDA and IPC. TPP has customers in over 30 countries worldwide and continues to be the leading provider of supply chain and material content data and management tools on the market. For more information on Total Parts Plus, call 850-244-7293 or visit http://www.totalpartsplus.com/. 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, Agile helps companies get the most from their products. Alcatel, Bayer, Dell Inc., Flextronics International, Foxconn, Harris, Hitachi, Leapfrog, Lockheed Martin, Magna Steyr, Playtex, Siemens, Quanta, QUALCOMM and ZF are among the over 10,000 customers in the automotive, aerospace and defense, consumer products, electronics, high tech, industrial products, and life sciences industries that have licensed Agile solutions. For more information, call 408-284-4000 or visit http://www.agile.com/. About Symbol Technologies, Inc. Symbol Technologies, Inc. (NYSE:SBL) has for over 30 years led the way in providing full-service, integrated enterprise mobility solutions. Symbol is a global, $1 billion+ company with headquarters in the United States and operations in more than 50 countries. Enhancing a company's most important business applications makes its employees more productive and efficient and provides the confidence and success needed to move forward. Symbol holds 900+ patents in the areas of laser bar code scanning, imaging bar code scanning, RFID, laser projection displays, mobile computing technologies and wireless technologies, among others. Symbol also has 5,000+ associates worldwide, 45,000 wireless local area networks (WLANs) installed, and 7 million mobile computers and scanners in use. For more information, call 631-738-2400 or visit http://www.symbol.com/. DATASOURCE: Total Parts Plus, Inc. CONTACT: Todd Montgomery, Vice President, Total Parts Plus, Inc., +1-850-244-7293, or ; or Terri Pruett of Agile Software Corporation, +1-408-284-4048, or +1-408-284-4000, or Web site: http://www.totalpartsplus.com/ http://www.agile.com/ http://www.symbol.com/

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