Software AG’s BPM Suite Reflects Successful Integration of IDS Scheer

Event Summary

March 3, 2011 -- With the launch of its new process-driven IT Modernization solution, Software AG introduced the first completely complementary collection of products and services designed specifically to align business and IT concerns. This holistic, process-centric solution adds a new process intelligence framework and best practices as well as specific targeted services to the complete product suite, including ARIS and webMethods, to help organizations achieve business process excellence.

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• Current Perspective: Positive on Software AG’s series of CeBIT announcements supporting its high-end business infrastructure software, webMethods, because the new integrated suite, technology enhancements, and cloud initiative help fill in technology gaps and open up new market opportunities. Details and timelines around the cloud initiative by Software AG, however, remain vague, which does nothing to build momentum around hybrid/cloud deployments and gives smaller competitors more importance with their PaaS announcements.

• Vendor Importance: Very high to Software AG, because following its quick rise to becoming the newest member among application platform leaders, it needed to integrate webMethods with IDS Scheer’s ARIS business architecture tools to maintain that position. Its integration accomplishment, called Enterprise BPM, now has the company squarely focused on upgrading its webMethods and ARIS customers to its new, comprehensive SOA suite. It will also concentrate efforts on showing its legacy software customers how they can modernize those applications by moving up its enhanced software stack.

• Market Impact: High on the application platforms market, due to Software AG’s ability to provide a BPM-led SOA suite capable of competing head-to-head on the rules and process modeling front with SOA/BPM vendors such as IBM, Oracle, TIBCO, and Red Hat. Software AG’s succeeded in its efforts to make a big splash at CeBIT this year with important announcements, including technology integration achievements with five of its acquired companies.

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