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Software AG Offers Free 180-Day Trial for webMethods Products



·         IT professionals given opportunity to learn how their enterprise can benefit
·         Continuous innovation brings new functionality to market every six months
·         Major strides in expanding Cloud offerings

Software AG today announced the availability of a free 180-day trial of its Integration Server, Universal Messaging, SAP Adapter, JDBC Adapter, CloudStreams, Trading Networks, and ActiveTransfer of its webMethods portfolio. The webMethods software is available at no charge to help enterprises more easily evaluate the latest versions of its market-leading webMethods software.

Cloud, Hybrid or On-Premises Functionality Core to webMethods
The webMethods portfolio enables firms to connect all their different, disparate on-premise, hybrid or Cloud software seamlessly. This allows them to unify and optimize their A2A, B2B, Mobile, Big Data, Cloud and social applications across a single platform.

According to Chief Technology Officer, Dr. Wolfram Jost, Software AG: “webMethods 9.8, the newest version of the webMethods portfolio, takes a significant stride towards enhancing and expanding our cloud offerings, improving developer productivity, supporting emerging standards, and making business users even more productive with process and task improvements, while delivering powerful analytics performance. By offering a free trial, we help IT professionals learn and explore how their business can benefit.”

Software AG Drives 6-Month Development & Innovation Cycle For webMethods
Software AG’s webMethods Integration Platform is a powerful middleware solution used by more than 4,000 companies worldwide, including many Fortune 1000 companies. This success is based on a continuous innovation approach, including organic R&D with 6-month release cycles, acquisitions and customer input. Key improvements in webMethods 9.8 include:
·         Enhanced OData support, which enables applications hosted on Force.com to more easily connect and access data from external sources
·         Expanded Microservices support for popular Java development models (such as POJOs or Spring Beans)
·         Extended hybrid cloud leadership, which enables users to develop simple, multi-step orchestration flows between any SaaS or on premises applications, providing support for more complex integration patterns
·         Support for non-programmer visual integration based on MIT Scratch development language (also known as ‘citizen programming’)
·         Full suite of adaptors for AWS services
·         Wizard-driven, native mobile application development
·         Support for the latest Apple, Android, and Microsoft devices
·         New predictive BPM process analytics, providing “estimated time of arrival” analytics for all processes that are in-flight and seamless transitions from operational to historic analytics
·         Major improvements with the first in-memory BAM product, Optimize, allowing business people to detect anomalies instantly with real-time tracking of processes.

Software AG – A Market Leader for its webMethods solution
In its most recent research on Application Integration, Software AG was named a leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for On-Premises Application Suites* for it’s webMethods Integration Platform.