• Appointment takes effect as of August 1^st, 2018

• Sanjay Brahmawar to succeed current CEO Karl-Heinz Streibich

February 19, 2018 – The Supervisory Board of Software AG has today appointed Sanjay Brahmawar (47) as the new Chief Executive Officer of Software AG for five years as of August 1, 2018. Brahmawar succeeds Karl-Heinz Streibich (65), who will step down after more than 14 years at the top at Software AG as he has reached the recommended age limit.

“In the last 14 years, Software AG, under the leadership of Karl-Heinz Streibich, has made the biggest transformation in its nearly 50-year history. By establishing the company’s global digitalization business, Karl-Heinz Streibich has successfully built a second robust business division – to the benefit of the company’s extensive customer base and to the benefit of our 4,600 employees worldwide. This achievement deserves our utmost gratitude and respect”, said Andreas Bereczky, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Software AG.

“Looking forward, we are very happy to have found Sanjay Brahmawar, a proven expert in the international IT business, who will ensure that Software AG continues to play a leading role in shaping the dynamic and competitive digitalization market with short innovation cycles. With Sanjay Brahmawar, Software AG has won a top manager who has been very successful in the technology sector for more than 18 years. During this time, he has impressively demonstrated how to combine technological know-how with entrepreneurial vision in various management positions. His tasks at Software AG will be to extend the company’s global technology leadership, together with the successful management team, and gain further market share in the promising fields of the Digitalization, Industry 4.0 and Artificial Intelligence”, continued Bereczky.

“With Sanjay Brahmawar, Software AG is excellently positioned to further expand our strong position as a pioneer of digital transformation and to implement innovative digitalization projects together with our customers, partners and employees,” says Karl-Heinz Streibich, Chairman of the Board of Software AG.

Sanjay Brahmawar is currently General Manager Global Revenue of IBM Watson Internet of Things at Munich, Germany. There, he is responsible for global software sales with a focus on data analysis and artificial intelligence. Previously, he served as General Manager at IBM Consulting Services in London, where he was responsible for the business in the European industrial sector (oil and gas, automotive, aerospace, electronics and engineering). Sanjay Brahmawar has repeatedly and impressively demonstrated that he can increase business both in terms of sales and margin. He has an international and multicultural background with experience in Germany, England, Holland, Belgium, Finland and India. Sanjay Brahmawar was born in India and has Belgian nationality. He lives with his family nearby Munich and is a passionate runner and cyclist in his leisure time.

About Software AG

Software AG (Frankfurt TecDAX: SOW) helps companies with their digital transformation. With Software AG’s Digital Business Platform, companies can better interact with their customers and bring them on new ‘digital’ journeys, promote unique value propositions, and create new business opportunities. In the Internet of Things (IoT) market, Software AG enables enterprises to integrate, connect and manage IoT components as well as analyze data and predict future events based on Artificial Intelligence (AI). The Digital Business Platform is built on decades of uncompromising software development, IT experience and technological leadership. Software AG has more than 4,500 employees, is active in 70 countries and had revenues of €879 million in 2017.

To learn more, visit www.softwareag.com

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 MoU in line with Software AG’s University Relations Program designed to build cooperation between private sector & academe

March 26, 2017 – Software AG, a global leader in enterprise architecture, IT planning, business process management, integration and big data, recently joined forces with Rochester Institute of Technology, Dubai (RIT Dubai) to help shape the country’s future business leaders and innovators by leveraging advanced digital tools and solutions. The agreement will see the two industry leaders collaborating closely under Software AG’s University Relations Program to help turn creative and innovative ideas into reality.

Under the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed by Rami Kichli, Vice President, Software AG – Gulf & Levant region, and University President Dr. Yousef Al Assaf, a range of skills development opportunities will be available for RIT Dubai students and faculty. RIT Dubai is one of the region’s leading technological universities offering highly regarded and accredited U.S Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in business and leadership, engineering, and computing directly from its New York campus.

One opportunity is student access to knowledge sharing and cooperative education with Software AG, under RIT Dubai’s unique cooperative internship education program.  This is a key cornerstone of education at RIT Dubai, which is particularly beneficial for graduates. This access and experience gives them a head start against their contemporaries as they join the highly competitive labor market.

The MoU will also pave the way for further interactions between RIT Dubai and Software AG’s experts during major events such as CeBIT, Innovation Days, and User Groups. Besides gaining a glimpse of game-changing market trends and developments, the exchange will offer an ideal foundation for the students’ future academic research projects and give Software AG access to high quality student and faculty research.

Kichli said, “Education is the foundation of business innovation. We have designed our University Relations Program around this belief, while highlighting the importance of cooperation among the private sector, academia, and the entire education industry to help build the country’s business leaders and innovators of tomorrow. We are privileged to be partnering with RIT Dubai in our bid to equip students with in-demand skills and expose them to the real world before they even leave the university to help them succeed in this age of digital evolution.”

In-depth training programs, free student certifications, alongside strategic partnerships promoting innovative ideas, research, seeding, and startups, among others, are important aspects of the collaboration. Guest speakers from Software AG and RIT Dubai discussing hot business topics such as big data, streaming analytics, Internet of Things, business process transformation, and integration, will provide further added-value learning to students and the wider community.

Aside from diverse events, RIT Dubai students and faculty will also get a chance to have an access to free software in an effort to build an academic user group. Software AG’s free software contains e-learning, video tutorials and other training materials to create self-explanatory and easy-to-use packages. Education packages are designed to be used either by individuals, or they can be done in teams with or without faculty assistance.

“Through Software AG’s University Program, the company is able to demonstrate its unwavering support for innovative ideas. Students can share innovative ideas and Software AG is always eager to support and fund projects that generate win-win situations. With our new newest cooperation with RIT Dubai, we look forward to hearing creative and unique thoughts that will help propel local society and the entire country forward,” added Kichli.

University President Dr. Yousef Al Assaf said: “At RIT Dubai we strive to lead higher education in the region through preparing students for successful careers in a global society. Ensuring opportunities with organizations such as Software AG, helps engage and further motivate our students through stimulating and collaborative experiences.  Software AG will help us provide technology-based educational programs designed to develop student’s personal and professional development.”

Building on over 45 years of customer-centric innovation, Software AG, a leader in many innovative IT categories, empowers customers to innovate, differentiate, and win in the digital world. Software AG’s products helps companies combine existing systems on-premise and in the cloud into a single platform to optimize and digitize their businesses. Software AG provides market-leading software for business processes, integration, intelligent business operations and transactions.

The combination of process management, data integration and real-time analytics in One Digital Business Platform enables customers to drive operational efficiency, modernize their systems and optimize processes for smarter-decision making.

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Dubai, United Arab Emirates, May 01 2016 – Software AG (Frankfurt TecDAX: SOW) today announced the company was cited as a leader in a recent independent report — “The Forrester Wave: Big Data Streaming Analytics, Q1 2016^[1]”— for its Apama Big Data Streaming Analytics Platform. The ranking was based on criteria in current offering, strategy and market presence.

The report, principally authored by Mike Gualtieri and Rowan Curran, noted that Software AG “…offers a comprehensive set of capabilities for companies that wish to undergo a fast digital transformation.”

The Forrester report also cited several features in its write-up on Software AG:

• Streaming Analytics – The Apama Big Data Streaming Analytics platform “delivers the scalability, management, operators, and application development tools that world-class enterprises need to make the right decision in the right moment.”
• HyperTree – “The patented HyperTree maintains the state needed for ultra-low-latency event pattern detection, and the vendor provides some of the most robust capabilities in this evaluation.”
• Integration – “Long-running pattern detection is also well supported via integration with Software AG’s own in-memory data grid, Terracotta, and its integration platform webMethods.”

Dr. Wolfram Jost, Chief Technology Officer, Software AG, said: “We believe this report echoes the feedback we receive from our customers acknowledging the tremendous competitive value and contextual insights they gain when using the Apama Big Data Streaming Analytics platform for Internet of Things, Mobile, Web and enterprise applications. It has been deployed in numerous organizations worldwide and supports a wide range of use cases, such as real-time operational visualization, dynamic product pricing, fraud detection and prevention, IoT data analysis, customer promotion triggering, location-based asset optimization, preventative maintenance, continuous risk and compliance monitoring, and faster response to opportunities and threats.”

Streaming Analytics is fundamental to enterprises deriving maximum knowledge, value, contextual insights, and competitive advantage from the rapidly growing Internet of Things (IoT). Continuous analytics on streaming data can be performed to identify business patterns, which have happened or are about to happen. Visualizations and visual analytics for business users support both human-oriented and automated intelligent actions.

The report is available at this link.

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• Facilitates real-time monitoring of ‘brick-and-mortar’ stores
• Delivers actionable insights enabling adjustments of real-time promotions and store staff assignments
• Allows retailers to fully exploit the full value of the Internet of Things

Dubai, United Arab Emirates January 24, 2016 – Software AG (Frankfurt TecDAX: SOW) today unveiled Smart Store Monitoring for the Digital Business Platform. Smart Store Monitoring provides retailers with real-time and predictive analysis capabilities in their ‘brick and mortar’ stores by enabling them to access, monitor and analyze large volumes of streaming data from in-store sensors and apps. Retailors can now gain immediate, actionable insights into how their promotions are performing and exploit the full value of the Internet of Things.

Oliver Guy, Retail Industry Director, Software AG, said: “These real-time insights could suggest retail managers should redeploy their staff to ‘hot areas’ in their store to meet high demand or persuade marketing managers to fine-tune promotions on the fly to better respond to different consumers in a particular location.”

According to a recent benchmark report from Retail Systems Research (RSR), underwritten by Software AG, retailers are keen to connect with consumers via smart devices and see an opportunity to offer new services based on consumer-driven data from IoT-enabled devices. They view store operations and customer engagement in stores as two of the top five departments that will benefit most from IoT (41% and 36%, respectively).

Oliver Guy noted: “The role of the store is expanding from a historically transaction-only point to an omni-channel hub at the center of all selling activities. Additionally, retailers are under immense pressure to provide a seamless, superior shopping experience to stay ahead of the competition. To benefit from the store’s shifting purpose and growing shopper expectations, retail managers must be able to track, monitor, analyze and optimize all in-store activity in real-time.”

Retailers are optimistic about the value of IoT in the store and they know that this new approach to data capture, analysis and action is needed. However, respondents to RSR’s report cited three technology barriers for all IoT projects – combining disparate data sources together, determining the best response to specific data events or expectations, and dealing with so much data from so many difference sources in real-time.

To overcome these barriers, Software AG’s Digital Business platform integrates a number of key technologies that critical to enable Smart Store Monitoring, including:

• Connectivity to all IoT-enabled data sources including in-store sensors and feeds, predictive models, in-store inventory management, point of service, external data or any other feeds.
• Provide real-time actionable insight as to what is happening in-store in real time – visible by both store staff and head-office merchandisers.
• Ability to automatically adjust in-store promotional activity, including signage, based on real-time consumer response.
• Ability to incorporate predictive models to initiate actions such as deploying additional staff or replenishing shelves at just the right moment.
• In-memory data management and real-time analytics tools ensure that information is readily accessible and actionable.
• Connectivity and process management tools ensure in-store processes can be managed, and automated where appropriate, to streamline omni-channel processes.

Oliver Guy continued: “With Smart Store Monitoring, retailers now have the critical data capabilities they need to track and act on all of the sensors and data feeds in a store – from point of sale data to shelf sensors – rendering IoT a retail reality.”

The Software AG Digital Business Platform solves the data, infrastructure and skills challenge for retailers. By bringing existing data together, in real-time, all key stakeholders in the retail environment can predict and foresee issues and opportunities within their organization. Merchandisers and promotion planners can access information streaming from the store’s sensors and in-store apps, giving them immediate insights into how promotions and campaigns are performing.

As RSR found, retailers view inventory accuracy (49%) and system-wide inventory visibility (40%) as two of the top three IoT opportunities. With the Digital Business Platform, sales managers and floor personnel can receive relevant details about a customer’s shopping history, store merchandise, inventory and product shipping information quickly.

Learn more at www.SoftwareAG.com/RETAIL

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• Eighth consecutive year for Software AG as a leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant
• Achieves highest overall position for ability to execute and completeness of vision

December 10, 2015 –  Software AG (Frankfurt TecDAX: SOW) announced today that Gartner, Inc., a leading industry analyst firm, has named Software AG a ‘Leader’ in its 2015 ‘Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Architecture Tools, published on November 4, 2015*.  Gartner assessed the company’s Alfabet Enterprise Architecture Management for the report. The company also announced its latest release of Alfabet, (version 9.9), which is available today. Alfabet Enterprise Architecture Management, an integral part of the company’s Digital Business Platform, combines core capabilities of Software AG’s Alfabet and ARIS product lines to provide a collaborative platform used by business and IT leaders to ensure that the IT landscape supports business strategy.

According to the report: “They [Enterprise Architecture tools] support strategic decision making by capturing vital enterprise context and background, along with content development and analysis capabilities across business, information, solution, technology and other relevant architectural viewpoints.”*

Alfabet – A Visionary Enterprise Architecture Product

Dr. Wolfram Jost, CTO and member of the Board, Software AG, says: “I believe Software AG’s continued leadership in the Gartner Magic Quadrant demonstrates the strength and maturity of the  Alfabet Enterprise Architecture Management solution and the company’s ability to rapidly respond to the disruptions caused by the emergence of digital business. Software AG continues to have the best vision for Enterprise Architecture with new features in Alfabet that support a broad and diverse range of users from business and IT to facilitate the collaboration critical for effective digital business transformation.”

New Threat Management to battle Higher Frequency, Severity of Attacks

The increasing frequency and severity of attacks on corporate and governmental information systems is driving IT organizations to add functionality that identifies and manages vulnerabilities in the IT landscape. Alfabet 9.9 provides a methodology for profiling applications and technologies based on known and possible threats. Organizations can determine whether to eliminate vulnerable applications from their portfolio or establish mitigation policies for maximum protection.

New Alfabet Functionality Strengthens IT and Business Collaboration

The new Alfabet 9.9 release provides comprehensive support for IT planning and management activities on premises as well as in the Cloud and on mobile devices. Highlights of the new release include:

1. Threat Management – Threats captured, identified, categorized enabling enhanced planning and risk management;
2. Mobile Portfolio Management – Full Alfabet functionality now available on mobile devices providing current and complete IT information anytime and anywhere;
3. Cloud Configuration Server – Enables cloud-based configuration of Alfabet for custom reporting and solution design;
4. Amazon Web Services (AWS) Footprint – Cloud-based apps and AWS services viewable as part of a company’s own IT architectural inventory (preview version);
5. Data Retention Policy Management – Ability to ensure data retention is compliant, cost-effective and supports IT strategy;
6. Seamless ARIS/Alfabet Interoperability – Eliminates the need for information replication in two repositories;
7. Corporate Branded User Interface – User interfaces can now reflect an enterprise’s corporate look and feel;
8. Report Views in Guide Pages – Reports now embeddable in guide pages providing fast insight and access to relevant information;
9. French and Portuguese Language – Two new languages supported.

The complete Gartner report is available at www.softwareag.com/recognition.

*Gartner, ”Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Architecture Tools”, November 4, 2015, by Saul Brand

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• Enriched historical, real-time and predictive analytics functionality
• Enhanced support of widespread IoT standards and protocols
• Improved deployment architecture supports use on local, server or Cloud platforms
• Seamless integration with the Digital Business Platform

Reston, November 15, 2015  – Software AG (Frankfurt TecDAX: SOW) today announced the availability of the Apama Streaming Analytics platform Release 9.9. Apama is the market-leading platform for streaming analytics and intelligent, automated action on fast-moving Big Data. It combines event processing, messaging, in-memory data management and visualization and is the most comprehensive platform for managing vast, fast-moving data streams and turning meaningful insight into action.

Continuous Software Development Brings Significant Benefits to Apama Users

Dr. Giles Nelson, senior vice president of Product Strategy and Marketing, Software AG, said: “We’re developing a new release every six months, which makes Apama the most comprehensive and competitive platform in the market for building applications that monitor, analyze and act on vast, fast-moving data streams. The new enhancements in this release will help business analysts monitor connected devices in the ‘Internet of Things’, operate across Cloud or on premises IT deployments, and, include predictive analytics.”

The new functionality in Apama 9.9 enhances support for numerous powerful applications, including market surveillance, fraud detection, predictive maintenance, smart logistics and a number of other Internet of Things and real-time marketing use cases.

Apama Powers Business Analysts and Data Scientists with all the Analytics Functionality Needed

Nelson further noted: “The ability to predict what is likely to happen next is essential to satisfying customers, improving operations, finding fraud and beating the competition. Predictive analytics uses patterns found in historical and real-time data to indicate what is ahead. The addition of Apama and its historical, real-time and predictive analytics functionality dramatically enhances the capabilities of our Digital Business Platform and enables enterprises to identify and act on future risks and opportunities in terms of revenue, resources, output and more.”

Apama 9.9 Highlights

Highlights of the new Apama 9.9 release include:

• Predictive Analytics – enables business analysts to identify significant events and take actions before they occur. For instance, better predicting when maintenance should happen enables organizations to fix their high value machines and equipment before failures actually occur and thus minimize the impact to their business;
• MQTT and AMQP Standards and Protocols – increased support for these key protocols enables easier integration with the Internet of Things;
• Apama Queries Designer – enables business analysts to develop Apama Queries within Software AG Designer more easily. Apama queries now include improved tooling with additional tooltips, simpler screen layouts, better on-screen representations of data, advanced expression editing and more informative error reporting.

• On premise or Cloud Deployment – support for Docker Containers helps Apama users to deploy and use the Apama platform consistently in on-premise and cloud environments
• Additional Apama 9.9 highlights can be found here: http://bit.ly/1KUSdHi

Apama Enjoys First Class Digital Business Platform Citizenship

Apama 9.9 includes common Software AG deployment functionality ensuring it is fully integrated into the Digital Business Platform, which is recognized as the first and leading platform to support all stages in a company’s digital transformation.

Apama: The Leading Streaming Analytics Platform

The Apama platform has always been a leader in the event processing and streaming analytics market and its continued innovation enables enterprises to leverage real-time insights to identify and act on opportunities to stay ahead of the competition. As the world’s number one streaming analytics platform, Apama has more than 200 deployments in Fortune 500 companies.

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United Arab Emirates, October 25, 2015 – Software AG (Frankfurt TecDAX: SOW) will host the first Innovation Day in Dubai at the Conrad Hotel on November 18, 2015 to take a closer look at digital transformation and the company’s role in deploying winning business strategies. The event, which is a part of Software AG’s EMEA Regional Innovation Day series, will focus on why companies are developing a digital strategy and integrating digitization in to all aspects of the business, from channels to processes, from data to their operating models, from digital products to total industry automation.

The Innovation Day’s keynote topics include Private and Public sector solutions, the latest news on Software AG’s Digital Business Platform digital transformation, optimization processes, and how to leverage Big Data Streaming analytics. The agenda will also include case studies and in-depth presentations from customers and industry experts.

Rami Kichli, Vice President, Software AG – Gulf & Levant said: “We are excited to be at the forefront of digitization in the region today. During our first Innovation Day, we will discuss how Software AG has already helped many enterprises in their digital transformation efforts. We will look at various effective approaches in how to become digital faster as well as effective ways to differentiate their business, and to better engage with customers and partners.”

To join Innovation Day 2015, prospective participants can register online at: http://www.softwareag.com/innovationday2015/dubai/registration/default.asp.

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• Americold brings positive customer experience to new heights with real-time supply chain visibility
• New IT system creates competitive advantage for Americold; further enhances Service Level Agreement (SLA) adherence
• Enhanced supply chain and order process capabilities based on webMethods 

United Arab Emirates, Dubai, 06 September, 2015 – Software AG (Frankfurt TecDAX: SOW) today announced that Americold, the global leader in temperature-controlled warehousing and supply chain solutions to the food industry, has significantly enhanced its already robust supply chain capabilities.  It has given its customers unprecedented visibility and access to their orders at every stage of the order lifecycle, from time of customer creation to final delivery, through its proprietary i-3PL supply chain control system in conjunction with Software AG’s webMethods portfolio. webMethods is used to capture and integrate data from Americold’s B2B, warehouse, transportation and ERP systems to produce advanced intelligence for its customers.

Thomas Musgrave, Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer, noted: “We want to provide our customers with breakthrough improvements comprising the ability to easily find, review and change active orders, as well as offer them order confirmations and alerts from any stage of the order and delivery process. It is about offering a single portal with full visibility of an order even when that order will have transited through a number of different networks and system architectures, and the multitude of programmed business logic that is required to deploy B2B communications. This is more than simply meeting SLAs and updating the customer on the labor activities of an order.  We’ve expanded capabilities to include ongoing updates to the customer on the virtual activities of an order too, ultimately exceeding customer expectations and garnering further trust.”

With more than 90,000 temperature-controlled truck moves annually, over 175 warehouses and a billion cubic feet of storage around the world, Americold is committed to providing its customers with the most competitive and complete supply chain solutions.

Thomas Musgrave continued: “The webMethods product integrates information from multiple sources enabling Americold management, partners, and customers access to live, accurate data, reports and alerts enabling them to take action, reshape demand, and make critical decisions more confidently.”

At the core of Americold’s digital transformation is Software AG’s webMethods Integration Server, which connects the company’s Warehouse Management System to its B2B Gateway. Software AG’s Optimize provides the monitoring of customer orders and shipment processes to ensure that any issues are noted and appropriate alerts are generated. Software AG’s MashZone serves as the user interface from where information is gathered.

Kevin Niblock, COO, Software AG North America, commented: “Americold has embraced ‘digital first’ thinking to create a competitive advantage for the company. It is already experiencing positive customer satisfaction from the new systems.  Most importantly, Americold expects to continue to uphold its SLA adherence metrics despite increases in complexity as greater visibility into its extensive supply chain will enable it to effect change and ensure smooth operations and on-time deliveries

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• Apama Streaming Analytics Platform Seamlessly Integrates Zementis ADAPA

• All Data Mining Tools’ Predictive Models Can Ingested By Apama, ADAPA

• Provides All The Analytics Capabilities A Business Analyst Or Data Scientist NeedsBusiness Platform honored for exceptional innovation

Dubai, June 30, 2015 – Software AG (Frankfurt TecDAX: SOW) today announced the addition of pre-built high-performance, Big Data Predictive Analytics solutions to its Digital Business Platform that make it easier and faster for enterprises across industries like retail, manufacturing, financial services, telecommunications, utilities, and hospitality to expose, anticipate, and act on critical business insights.

Wolfram Jost, chief technology officer, Software AG, said: “The ability to predict what is likely to happen next is essential to satisfying customers, improving operations, and beating the competition. Predictive analytics uses patterns found in historical and real-time data to indicate what is ahead. The addition of predictive analytics enhances the capabilities of our Digital Business Platform and enables enterprises to identify and act on future risks and opportunities in terms of revenue, resources, output and more.”

Software AG has embedded Zementis ADAPA (Adaptive Decision and Predictive Analytics) into the Apama Streaming Analytics platform to offer enterprises a comprehensive ‘one stop shop’ for business insight and analytics. Zementis ADAPA is an extremely fast, standards-based deployment platform and scoring engine for predictive analytics, and uses algorithms that discover patterns in Big Data that might predict similar outcomes in the future.

Unique to Zementis ADAPA is its PMML (Predictive Model Markup Language) deployment and run-time engine. Due to the rich support for this emerging data mining industry standard, predictive models created with all leading commercial and open source data mining tools can be utilized for real-time scoring.

Michael Zeller, chief executive officer, Zementis, noted: “The demand for predictive analytics is exploding. The reality is that businesses employing predictive analytics will be in a better position to support their customers than those without predictive analytics. It’s a tremendous competitive edge.”

The Digital Business Platform and its newly added predictive analytics capability can support numerous applications, including predictive maintenance, smart metering and manufacturing, supply chain optimization, fraud detection and a number of Internet of Things and  ‘connected customer’ marketing use cases.

Michael Zeller continued: “Too many companies struggle with how to translate their Big Data into actionable insight. By adopting high-performance, Big Data predictive analytics, businesses can leverage a treasure trove of information that enables them to optimize business performance or carve out a differentiating niche in an increasingly competitive landscape through programs such as personalization marketing.”

New technologies such as in-memory processing, streaming analytics, cloud computing, Internet of Things and Big Data coupled with faster and cheaper computing platforms and sensors are all contributing to making predictive analytics more easily attainable to help enterprises modernize their analytics capabilities.

Wolfram Jost added: “Software AG has made a strong commitment to help enterprises drive real business value and critical insights across the full spectrum of analytics to give our customers a competitive edge. Our goal is always to put our customers’ needs first, and we believe that the Digital Business Platform achieves this. Moreover, we have recently partnered with Mosaic Data Science, who provide advanced analytics and data science support for our customers.”

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Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 16 March, 2015, Software AG today announced it will launch a “Transformation to the Cloud” initiative with the objective of helping enterprises to identify and implement their optimal cloud adoption strategies. To support the initiative, Software AG has made the strategic decision to deploy its entire cloud portfolio on the AWS cloud over the course of 2015. Already running on AWS are Software AG’s Alfabet Cloud and ARIS Cloud product suites. These cover all aspects of IT planning and portfolio management as well as the whole area of business process analysis. They allow enterprises to identify those IT assets that can make optimal use of the cloud from ease of access, cost, regulatory and security perspectives and how to transform business processes to the cloud. Software AG will also deploy webMethods Integration Cloud on Amazon Web Services this year. This system offers application integration capabilities for Cloud-to-Cloud and Cloud-to-Ground use cases as a public cloud service.

From the Cloud to the Cloud

“Software AG is committed to increasing customer choice and ease of use wherever possible and transformation to the cloud is a significant step in this direction, delivering increased enterprise flexibility and adaptability”, said Wolfram Jost, CTO at Software AG. “Not only does this help enterprises and government departments to design and implement individual cloud strategies and architectures, it does so from the cloud, delivering cost efficiencies from the start”.

Transformation to the Cloud

Software AG is offering a unique portfolio of cloud services to enable customers to design an optimal hybrid IT architecture and deploy suitable processes, domains, systems and applications on the AWS cloud. Using Software AG’s Alfabet Cloud and ARIS Cloud on AWS will enable customers to gain the maximum value from the cloud through a managed business and IT transformation to a customer centric digital business. This provides a unique, highly effective and secure approach to establishing, transforming and running differentiating business processes in the cloud.

Software AG will also deploy webMethods Integration Cloud, an integration Platform-as-a-Service (iPaaS) for cloud-to-cloud integration and seamless connections with private cloud or on-premise enterprise service bus installations on AWS. Finally, webMethods AgileApps Cloud, a PaaS and on-premises solution for creating situational and case management apps will also be run on AWS. Designed for easy visual customization, webMethods AgileApps Cloud enables subject matter experts to change processes, business rules, e-forms, reports, dashboards, connect with Facebook or Twitter, collaborate with team members and access information from any mobile device.

Reduce costs while improving customer service

Software AG has chosen AWS as its strategic, global IaaS provider as it is the clear market leader both in size and brand awareness among large scale enterprises and due the resulting excellent operational efficiencies. AWS offers the widest geographical coverage, significant savings regarding external IaaS services and lower costs of certification.
“Today, more than ever before, leading ISVs are looking for IT solutions that allow them to move quickly, reduce costs, and better serve their customers,” said Terry Wise, Vice President, AWS. “Software AG is a leading example of an innovative software vendor going all in on AWS to leverage our secure, robust infrastructure platform, and expanding global footprint to build highly differentiated, value-added solutions for their customers.”

Cloud Transformation and Partners

Software will expand the portfolio of cloud transformation services and solutions through its partner program in 2015. The focus will be on delivering strategic cloud adoption consulting services.

A strategic cloud planning process will be demonstrated at CEBIT 2015, March 16-20, Hall 4, Stand C11.

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