Software AG Launches SOFTWARE AG LIVE

Cloud-based Platform-as-a-Service suite provides full support for social and mobile collaboration and integrates with existing solutions in hybrid cloud environments

Darmstadt, GermanyMay 15, 2013—Solutions provider Software AG launched Software AG Live, the first cloud-based Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) suite. With this launch, Software AG now extends its offering from enabling enterprise-wide and on-premise solutions to creating agile and cloud-based applications through a comprehensive PaaS suite in the cloud. Subject matter experts and IT professionals across organizations are now empowered to design and develop agile applications, while easily integrating existing systems.

“Software AG has been a strategic partner of Coca-Cola Enterprises for many years and was the vendor we trusted to help us explore digital strategies spanning the cloud and on-premise,” said Esat Sezer, Chief Information Officer and Senior Vice President at Coca-Cola Enterprises. “As we continue to move to the cloud, we are looking forward to leveraging Software AG’s extended native cloud capabilities, helping us to become more flexible and achieve our business goals faster.”

By extending its business process and integration leadership to the cloud, Software AG now offers a complete PaaS suite to unify process design, agile application development and integration; and enable customers to utilize hybrid cloud deployments to support their business needs.

According to a May 2013 Gartner Inc. forecast, revenue for PaaS continues to grow from $1.2 billion in 2012 to $3.5 billion in 2017. It additionally reports that within the PaaS market, application infrastructure and middleware makes up the largest sub segment comprising 72 percent of the market.

“As the industry has evolved, we’ve seen the needs of our clients change with it,” said Karl-Heinz Streibich, Chief Executive Officer of Software AG. “With this launch, we are welcoming the next phase of Software AG, to help our customers create a truly digital enterprise and embrace the opportunities that cloud deployments offer.”

The Software AG Live suite is comprised of:

  • AgileApps Live is a high-productivity application PaaS, implemented on technology from recently acquired LongJump, Inc. With AgileApps Live organizations achieve business-driven innovation managed by IT. This new offering provides unique flexibility to adapt to changing business processes, regulations and other business needs. All applications built on AgileApps Live instantly deploy on mobile devices and come with pre-build integration across social networks. AgileApps Live is available immediately.
  • Process Live, a collaborative business process analysis PaaS, enables users to collaborate across departments and geographies to improve requirements management and design of business processes. Process Live is compatible with Software AG’s market-leading ARIS Business Process Analysis platform and will be available in the second half of 2013.
  • Integration Live is an integration PaaS which enables cloud-to-cloud integration and seamlessly connects with private cloud or on-premise Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) installations. Integration Live is offering an unmatched combination of ease-of-use and enterprise-strength and is compatible with webMethods Integration Server, the market leading ESB from Software AG. Availability is scheduled for Q1 of 2014.

 

In addition, Software AG announced Dynamic Cloud Scaling, a new capability of Software AG’s webMethods Integration Server that supports elastic scaling across hybrid deployments—public cloud, private cloud and on-premise. To be available in the second half of 2013, the new capability will enable customers to either manage deployments themselves or take advantage of Software AG Managed Suite. This new offering includes components such as the webMethods Integration Server managed by Software AG as-a-service in customer’s data centers or on the public cloud. This offering will also be available later in the year.

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