- Software AG’s unveils
its Digital Business Platform 2.0 at Innovation World 2015
- Inspire to Innovate –
Digital capability maps, digital roadmaps, the digital marketplace &
simplified application development and integration make the digital
journey easier
Software AG (Frankfurt TecDAX: SOW) unveils its Digital
Business Platform 2.0 at its major customer event in Las Vegas.
A year after its launch, the world’s first Digital Business Platform now includes major enhancements to help enterprises and the public sector, plan, govern, design, implement and accelerate their digital projects and strategies. The Digital Business Platform 2.0 includes new assets and technologies to develop and integrate differentiating applications at the speed, and with the flexibility, needed as digitization opens up unprecedented new business opportunities to enterprises fast enough to take them.
A year after its launch, the world’s first Digital Business Platform now includes major enhancements to help enterprises and the public sector, plan, govern, design, implement and accelerate their digital projects and strategies. The Digital Business Platform 2.0 includes new assets and technologies to develop and integrate differentiating applications at the speed, and with the flexibility, needed as digitization opens up unprecedented new business opportunities to enterprises fast enough to take them.
“Digitization has relegated ERP to providing back office efficiencies and nothing
more”, says Software AG CTO, Dr.
Wolfram Jost. “Digitization has turned every company into a
software company and every digital strategy decision into a strategic business
decision. As a strategic business partner, Software AG drives co-innovation
with our customers and partners. We provide the implementation technology in
combination with transformation tools and methodologies needed to rapidly
digitize. It is combining these with our customers’ innovative business ideas
however that ultimately delivers business success.”
In the face of growing digitization,
organizations have to reinvent their business and create new business models
and designs to remain successful. In combining people, business and things they
also have to adapt their IT systems to rapidly changing business conditions. To
complete this transformation to a fully digital enterprise requires
unprecedented understanding and cooperation between IT and business decision
makers, and, co-innovation between customer and software vendor.
Software AG’s Digital
Business Platform 2.0 bridges this communication gap from strategic
digitization planning to application development and implementation. The Digital
Business Platform 2.0 provides:
- The Digital Journey Overview - a “Digital
Roadmap” that enables IT and business management to plan and govern the
end-to-end transition process to the digital enterprise
- A Digital Capability Map - available as a
reference model in ARIS, to define and model the
requirements for the digital enterprise based on digital capabilities. The
digital capability map shows a holistic view on what has to be implemented
during the digital transformation process.
- An IT architecture Planner – ARIS GRC
and Alfabet provides a comprehensive view of the changes
necessary for digitization from IT architecture, budgetary, legal and
regulatory perspectives.
- A Digital Blueprint - the ARIS Business
Process Analysis Platform provides the digital blueprint, the
business model impact and the business process needed to address the
digital economy.
- Simplified Application Development - agile,
user-friendly applications that are quick to build, even by ‘Citizen
Developers’. Software AG’s webMethods Agile Process Platform
enables customers to develop agile applications in a way that is adaptable
and flexible. This means the agile applications can be incorporated into
the strategic IT portfolio and integrated into the existing IT environment
without needing to be redeveloped.
- Enhanced Cloud Offering - webMethods
delivers major enhancements for hybrid connectivity, cloud connectivity
and advanced orchestration allowing for hybrid cloud deployment. Also
included is the new API Cloud offering including the hosting and
integration of APIs in the cloud.
- A Digital Marketplace - Software AG’s Digital
Marketplace portal enables enterprises to select and leverage
essential IT development components such as solution accelerators,
business process models, application components, adapters and industry
frameworks as well as fully fledged solutions developed by Software AG’s
partners and customers to accelerate time to value.
“Digitization is driving a
seismic change in IT development”, continued Jost. “Enterprises that lost IT knowledge and experience through outsourcing or
packaged applications must regain them if they are to survive. The IT agility
and speed needed to be successful in the digital economy demands the right
business ideas, the right development skills set, the right technology and the
ability to bring down the barriers between them. This is where the Digital
Business Platform becomes the only solution. Enterprises cannot be
dependent on software vendors to deliver innovation and digital capabilities
“sometime”, but must be able to co-innovate them rapidly and cost effectively
at the right time”.
The trend for major
enterprises to in-source IT development skills has been apparent in recent
years. General Electric (GE), as an example, has invested a billion dollars in
establishing a “Software Start-Up” inside the corporation with over a thousand
developers and data scientists leveraging and complementing GE’s industrial
domain knowledge. GE is now approaching $1 billion in new revenue annually from
their expanded software and data activities.