Software AG
Frontrunner in Providing Innovative Solutions

The effectual enterprise management and information exploitation through IT are the key factors to business success today. Headquartered in Darmstadt, Germany, Software AG [ETR:SOW] analyzes, optimizes, plans and manages EA—driving digital transformation for organizations. The company provides solutions that assist organizations to improve operational competency, update systems, and optimize methodologies for smarter decisions and better service. Founded in 1969, the company supports organizations with innovative EA technology along with industry and product expertise. With training and certifications from ‘The Open Group Architecture Framework’ (TOGAF), Software AG’s experts’ offers quality services from a single source, discounting the reliance on multiple vendors. The company’s in-memory computing solutions offer rapid access to big data, while master data management solutions safeguard organizations’ workflow with reliable processes.

Software AG’s Alfabet EA Management platform helps in aligning the IT structures with business objectives and processes to ensure that IT transformation goes hand-in-hand with the business. It also transforms IT into a responsive and flexible system to increase and augment business transparency and productivity in the IT landscape. Building on over 40 years of customer-centric innovation, Software AG have also invented Adabas—the first high-performance transactional database, ARIS—the first business process analysis platform, and webMethods—the first B2B server and SOA-based integration platform. ARIS competently documents and designs organization’s strategy, processes and architectures. Designed for enterprises wanting to begin a digital enterprise, the platform analyzes and optimizes business processes for enhanced output. ARIS improves processes and IT quality through better definition of development, avoidance of system breaks and improved communication.

In an instance, The Linde Group, a world-leading gases and engineering company required transparency and visibility into how efficiently their IT supports business processes.

The combination of process management, data integration, and real-time analytics in one Digital Business Platform enables customers to drive operational efficiency

The organization wanted to improve the IT performance and was looking for an approach, which offers comprehensible insight into their multifaceted business processes. IDS Scheer Consulting, a Software AG brand, and the ARIS Platform helped Linde to successfully develop holistic EA management solution. With clear and detailed insight into the existing IT landscape, Linde without difficulty obtained a synopsis about the required changes in order to support business in a cost-effective manner. With Software AG’s solutions, the organization had a vivid picture of their workflow, roles and responsibilities along with standardization of applications and infrastructure. “Enterprise architecture management with ARIS has enabled us to consistently build on our IT systems. It provides transparency of everything from processes and applications to technology,” says Thomas Steinich, Head of Enterprise Services Application Architecture, The Linde Group.

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. Moreover, Software AG products are built on cutting-edge public, private and hybrid cloud technology, which offers the benefits of instant deployment and enables faster time-to-value, while reducing total cost of ownership (TCO). With ARIS cloud, organizations can design, analyze, share and collaboratively improve processes in the cloud and collaborate across departments to improve requirements management and business processes. While Alfabet Cloud effectively manages IT portfolios, conducts superior decisions—using best practices for optimizing individual portfolios and analyzing the way they are interrelated for change impact.

The company empowers customers to innovate, differentiate and win in the digital world. Forging ahead, Software AG plans to develop more groundbreaking solutions to help optimize organizations for the digital enterprise and in the business and IT transformational processes.