At CeBIT 2012, Software AG will be demonstrating how customers from various sectors are implementing excellent business processes and achieving their business goals faster. Engaging IT projects and numerous case studies show visitors how important rapid responses are in the digital business world of the future.

Marco Gerazounis, Senior VP Middle East North Africa & Turkey, Software AG, said: “At CeBIT 2012, we will be presenting various case studies and practical examples that demonstrate how Software AG’s cutting-edge solutions have empowered businesses worldwide to become more efficient and productive. The upcoming exhibition will certainly serve as an excellent platform to reaffirm Software AG’s reputation as the global leader in Business Process Excellence, while adding momentum to our plans in various global markets, particularly here in the Middle East.”

Software AG is upholding CeBIT’s main theme, “managing trust,” with its Cloud Ready strategy for cloud-based IT solutions. The objective is to strengthen trust and security in the digital world, ensuring progress and growth for organizations worldwide.

To do this, Software AG is developing a secure range of products for cloud computing, in which various webMethods products are bundled with solutions from American manufacturer Layer 7 Technologies. With the Cloud Ready strategy, customers can combine different cloud models—such as public cloud, private cloud, and hybrid cloud—and procure IT services as “cloud services.”

The flexibility achieved here allows the appropriate use of new and existing cloud products and meets the diverse security needs of industry and public administration.

In addition, Software AG’s booth partners from Deloitte—a globally active management consulting and auditing firm—will be presenting the results of their recent TrustIT study.

The international survey about IT security examines the relationship between businesses and external IT partners in the framework of ecosystems networked across companies; it shows that companies today transfer a large part of their added IT value to external partners. They generally rely on standard controls for security. Partnership requires solid mutual trust.

New technologies and increasing digitalization are making enterprises more and more efficient while accelerating processes. In the future, innovations will be pursued in organizations across networks in a globalized world, rather than within individual companies. In this participatory world, speed is the key success factor. In the long term, only those companies that can quickly adapt to new technologies will be successful. At CeBIT, Software AG will be highlighting some engaging, real-world examples and presenting current solutions for efficient use of new technologies.

This is the first year that a South American country—Brazil—has been the official partner of the world’s largest IT tradeshow. At the Software AG booth, representatives of PDG S.A.—Brazil’s largest construction and real estate company—demonstrate how they succeeded in lowering the time required for a credit check process from weeks to hours.

The diversity of mobile devices makes integrating them into business processes costly and time-consuming. Companies can use the webMethods Mobile Designer solution to develop a single version of their application, which they can then use on any mobile device—from iPad to Android and BlackBerry—without additional development.

Showcases: Accelerating processes in the digital administration, energy, and construction industries
The various exhibits at Software AG’s booth give visitors a real picture of excellent business processes. An example is a new reference project to speed up heavy load transportation between Germany and Austria, which provides information on how authorities benefit from digital management processes. The German state of Bavaria worked with Austria to develop a solution that speeds up the lengthy approval processes for transporting goods. On the basis of seamless processes and Software AG technologies, trucks will be able to cross the border more quickly in the future. Beyond its main booth in Hall 4, Software AG is represented in the Public Sector Parc (Hall 7 Booth C14 ); this booth focuses on digital administration and Software AG’s many offerings for modern e-government.

Process excellence for smart grids: In an example for smart grids, Software AG shows how to use its webMethods Business Events and ARIS Mashzone products to network the various participants in the energy market at the process level.

The Construction Process Excellence showcase for the construction industry was developed in cooperation with the Darmstadt University of Technology. It demonstrates how companies can use construction-logistics events to derive current data to provide timely control of the construction process, thereby improving the overall processes of all companies involved in construction.

A genuine Formula 1 car with a driving simulator awaits race-fan visitors at the Software AG booth. Drivers’ times for the virtual racetrack are incorporated into the overall standings, which are available via mobile app. The fastest drivers will receive fantastic prizes.

As usual, Software AG’s international press conference will take place on the Monday before the official start of the trade show, March 5, 2012, at 3:30 pm in room 11 of the Convention Center at the Hanover exhibition center. In addition, Software AG will be holding topic-oriented roundtables for the trade press starting on Tuesday, March 6, 2012, covering the topics of enterprise business process management, mobile solutions (integrating mobile applications with SOA and cloud computing into enterprise IT), as well as on business use of social media technologies.

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Software AG, Europe’s second largest software company, is reorganising its US operations, after experiencing a sharp fall in sales in the region in the fourth quarter.
The German maker of business software said it would create a new “federal” unit in the US, to go after more public sector contracts. Staff will be drawn mainly from Software AG’s existing employees, but boosted with a number of new appointments.

Karl-Heinz Streibich, chief executive, also told the Financial Times he plans to personally spend more time in the US and is looking for ways to improve Software AG’s image in the region, although it is not yet clear how he will promote the brand.

“The public sector is a traditional customer for us and accounts for 30 per cent of revenues in the US. But now we are going for additional projects and having to fight to win,” Mr Streibich said.

“The difficulties just create an incredible energy to look at what we need to improve and do.”

He promised a slow and gradual recovery for the US business, with more details to be unveiled at a press conference on Tuesday, at which Mr Streibich will provide forecasts for the coming year.

The company provides software to a number of US public sector organisations, such as the City of New York, but has struggled to win new work in this area. Competitors such as Tibco, meanwhile, have been aggressively winning such business.

Software AG shares fell by more than 20 per cent last week after it revealed fourth quarter sales and profits that missed estimates. The US division saw a 40 per cent decline in sales, offsetting strong growth in Europe.

Mr Streibich said he was also planning to expand Software AG’s presence in Silicon Valley in the US, where the company bought Terracotta, the maker of Java software, last May. Most of the German company’s business has been on the east Coast to date, leaving Software AG with few ties to booming Silicon Valley technology businesses.
Mr Streibich said that while management focus would be mainly on fixing US problems, the company has not stopped looking for potential acquisitions.

“It is clear that our priority is to further grow the organic business, but acquisitions are not on hold,” he said. “Wherever we see a good opportunity, we will go for it.” The company’s last large deal was the $680m purchase of IDS Scheer in 2009, and Mr Streibich has in the past said he aimed to do a large deal every two to four years.

Mr Streibich, who has been CEO of Software AG since 2003, also said that he had not come under any investor pressure to step down, despite the company’s recent underwhelming performance.

“It is my ninth year as CEO of Software AG, and we have had 34 quarters of achieving all our key parameters. 2010 was our best year ever and in 2011 we have achieved the same level of sales and profit,” he said. “You have to look at it in totality.”

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Software AG has announced that it has been positioned in the Leaders Quadrant by Gartner, Inc., a leading industry analyst firm, in its recently released Magic Quadrant for Business Process Analysis (BPA) Tools[1]. Gartner defines BPA as the business modeling space in which business professionals and IT analysts collaborate on business architecture, transformation and improvement, including process analysis and design to support BP improvement initiatives.

With the ARIS platform, Software AG delivers a feature-rich tool set well known for its long-standing leadership in BPA, offering a toolset and diagrams to support strategists in defining and implementing their business strategy.

In reaching the Leader status, Gartner stated: “Leaders provide mature offerings that meet market demand, as well as demonstrate the vision necessary to sustain their market position as requirements evolve. The hallmark of Leaders is that they focus on and invest in their offerings to the point that they lead the market and can affect its overall direction. As a result, Leaders can become the vendors to watch as you try to determine how new offerings might evolve.”

“We take great pride in being recognised as a Leader,” said Dr. Wolfram Jost, Chief Technology Officer and member of the Executive Board, Software AG. “Once again we have proven that ARIS is the established standard for Business Process Analysis. With the combination of ARIS for business modeling and webMethods for BPM execution, Software AG closely aligns business and IT departments around a shared vision for process improvement.”

This year, Gartner stated that ”Process modeling as part of BPA is becoming a starting point for a growing number of business process management (BPM) and compliance projects, and helps avoid the rush to execution that often results in poor BPM ROI or failure. Conversely, most BPM projects start with tools that include process modeling in support of workflow, and add a BPA tool to better understand their processes and simulate possible changes.”

Software AG´s BPA solution ensures that Business Process Management objectives are aligned with and implemented appropriately across the underlying IT systems and applications that support the business processes. The high quality of the combined design work of business and IT departments using business processes as their common language is the key factor for successful projects.

ARIS not only aligns business and IT but it can deliver consistent business-driven processes that reduce costs, increase process performance, transparency and agility—within and beyond corporate boundaries.

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