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6-Month release cycle continues to drive fast
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Software AG today revealed significant progress in customer traction and
partner expansion with its Digital Business Platform. The Digital Business Platform is the critical technology
driver and enabler for enterprises pursuing digital transformation (see infographic).
Software
AG’s Digital Business Platform delivers a wider range of capabilities that
enable enterprises to quickly build business applications for the digital age. Conventional,
off-the-shelf ERP and application software products are designed to support
existing and predictable business processes – this means they cannot be adapted
fast enough for changes in the business; the Digital Business Platform supports
the development of applications for new, digitized processes, which did not
exist in the past.
Chief
Technology Officer, Dr. Wolfram Jost, Software AG said: “Digital applications are adaptable by design and ‘built
to change’. Differentiating applications for the digital transformation cannot
be bought off-the-shelf, they have to be built on an advanced development
platform. And, most importantly, these platforms are the future of enterprise
computing, for cloud, hybrid cloud and on premise deployments.”
Digital Transformation
At Work: Digital Business Platform Enables Customer Centricity
Transformation
is a major theme for enterprises as they strive to become digital, with customer centricity being the major
competitive advantage. This can be achieved through real-time visibility into
one’s own business operations, identifying potential bottlenecks and through
automated and optimized business processes, reacting dynamically to changing
business environments.
Digitization
Is Making Progress Worldwide
Dr. Wolfram Jost, Software AG also noted: “We
see that digitization is progressing on a worldwide scale. A major
telecomunications company in Australia launched a new business process
transformation to get their products and services to market five times faster.
In France, a leading semiconductor manufacturer wanted an order, invoicing and payment system to help them identify and
quickly respond to supply chain delays. And in Germany, a logistics company
needed a system to help them respond to their customers more quickly as well as
offer a broader portfolio of services. In each case, these companies chose the
Digital Business Platform as the foundation to digitally transform their
businesses.”
Software AG
Drives 6-Month Development Cycle For Digital Business Platform
The Digital
Business Platform is a service-oriented, event-driven and API enabled development
environment with many high-level, out-of-the-box application services to
support the creation of integration, process, decision, event and programming
logic. The platform is cloud- and mobile-enabled, supports the development of
micro services and follows the priciples of a software defined architecture.
Container managment is included for ease of deployment. Major improvements have
been accomplished in the five core components of the Digital Business Platform
since its initial launch six months ago, including:
1.
Business and IT transformation - ARIS and Alfabet: The latest Alfabet release enables
more effective planning and management of
the enterprise landscape with new reporting capabilities such as
geo-maps for regional performance analysis and integration with Technopedia® IT
catalog for greater precision in managing the enterprise technology portfolio .
The latest release of ARIS helps organization to transform to a customer
centric digital business by improving their customer journeys and customer
touch points. The new ARIS also offers its full range of capabilities as an
enterprise cloud service.
2. In-memory data management - Terracotta:The latest version of Terracotta
BigMemory offers support for WAN Replication Service and also extends support
to Java 8 and RedHat EL7 (server). Also, Terracotta now offers off-heap to the
open souce community.
3. Integration - webMethods:
The new release 9.8 substantially enhances and expands Software AG’s cloud
offerings, improves developer productivity and empowers business users’
productivity with process and task improvements while delivering better
analytics performance.
4. Agile processes - webMethods
AgileApps: AgileApps provides
subject-matter experts and developers the capability to visually build and
deploy process-driven solutions in days or weeks rather than months or years.
5.
Intelligent business operations - Apama: Apama Streaming Analytics is at the core of Software AGs IBO offering and is
the basis upon which companies can manage fast ‘Big Data’ and the increasing
impact of the ‘Internet of Things’. The new Apama version brings a
much-anticipated capability for horizontal scalability and availability: Apama
Queries. This lets business analysts and developers create scalable and elastic
applications that process events originating from very large populations of
real-world entities.
In addition, Adabas & Natural have been extended to provide comprehensive integration
capabilities with the Digital Business Platform. The latest update, Event
Analytics for Adabas, audits sensitive Adabas operations in real-time used in
critical business applications.
All new features are now available
in this new release.