Software AG announced that Forrester Research in its Q2 2011 report, The Forrester Wave: Enterprise Architecture Management Suites, gives Software AG top scores in overall strategy, product architecture and market presence. In evaluating vendors, Forrester Research, Inc. looked at Enterprise Architecture (EA) tools of the third generation with capabilities across the entire EA management lifecycle and noted a Leader offers “the most-advanced EA tools evolving into the new EAMS market.” Forrester further stated: “An EAMS centralizes the most-strategic information on IT and the business.” In this report, Forrester evaluated Software AG’s ARIS Platform.Read More…

Software AG acquires leading in-memory and cloud enabling technology provider Terracotta Inc. With this acquisition Software AG will not only provide innovative cloud solutions and dramatically increase the performance and scalability of its Business Process Excellence platform but also extends it’s business model options by adding a large and thriving open source community. Terracotta’s product portfolio provides leading edge in-memory technology and is the de facto caching standard for enterprise Java. And, it’s in-memory processing will provide the foundation technology for Software AG’s cloud offerings. Read More…

Software AG (SAG), launched its new Partnership Programme that will appoint selected partners to countries where the company has no direct presence in order to enhance the local experience of its customers. The initiative will help significantly lower implementation and support rates for SAG’s regional clients without compromising quality. SAG will selectively appoint business-driven partners that are certified on SAG solutions and will be differentiated according to their specialized services and solutions. Channel recruits will have access to a wide range of SAG benefits and resources complementing their goals and plans at every phase of the business cycle. Read More…

Software AG recorded a significant increase in revenues in the fourth quarter of 2010. At €326.7 million, total revenues were 12 per cent higher than the same quarter of the previous year (€292.1 million). The product business picked up sharply in the fourth quarter in particular, totaling €222.0 million and exceeding the figure for the same period of the previous year (€181.1 million) by 23 per cent. Significant revenue increases, largely owing to an increased number of big deals and initial cross-selling successes, followed the successful integration of IDS Scheer AG and its software product portfolio. Revenue and earnings also benefited from currency translation effects, especially in the Americas.

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Software AG today announced that it has been named by Gartner, Inc., a leading industry analyst firm, in the Leaders Quadrant of the recently released Magic Quadrant for Business Process Management Suites. According to Gartner, Inc., more organizations are adopting Business Process Management (BPM) as a discipline and scaling up their efforts to establish BPM as an enterprise program. The effectiveness of BPM in providing business efficiency was demonstrated by a 15% market growth in BPMS in 2009.Read More…