Software AG Launches Software AG Live: Agile And Integrated For The Digital Enterprise

Software AG launches cloud-based Platform-as-a-Service suite addressing today’s business needs with unmatched speed, ease-of-use and full support for social and mobile collaboration while fully integrating with existing solutions in hybrid cloud environments

Software AG recently launches Software AG Live, the first cloud-based Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) suite. With this launch, Software AG is now scaling the business benefits of creating agile and cloud-based applications through to managing enterprise-wide and on-premise solutions. Subject matter experts and IT professionals across organizations are now empowered to design and develop agile applications, while easily integrating existing systems.

Organizations are pressed more than ever to rapidly develop and deploy agile, scalable and secure solutions to address their shifting market and customer needs, such as delivering better engagement with consumers within days, rather than weeks or months. These solutions must fully leverage the opportunities provided by today’s cloud, social, mobile and big data solutions. By extending its business process and integration leadership to the cloud, Software AG is creating the most comprehensive Platform-as-a-Service suite in the cloud, unifying process design, agile application development and integration, while enabling customers to utilize hybrid cloud deployments to support their business needs.

“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, CIO 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.”

“As the industry has evolved, we’ve seen the needs of our clients change with it,” said Karl-Heinz Streibich, Chairman and CEO 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, an application and business process PaaS, built 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 needs and regulations. 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 based on the market-leading ARIS Business Process Analysis platform from Software AG and will be available in Q3 of 2013.
• Integration Live is an integration PaaS which enables integration in the cloud and seamlessly connects with private cloud or on-premise Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) installations, offering an unmatched combination of ease-of-use and enterprise-strength. Integration Live is built upon enterprise-strength webMethods ESB technology from Software AG and will be available in Q1 of 2014.
• Dynamic Cloud Scaling, a new version of Software AG’s webMethods ESB that now supports hybrid deployments – public cloud, private cloud and on-premise, will be available in the second half of 2013.

Software AG is the only company to offer this comprehensive suite of business process and integration solutions enabling the rapid development and deployment of enterprise-wide and on-premise to lightweight and cloud-based applications.

About Software AG
Software AG helps organizations achieve their business objectives faster. The company’s big data, integration and business process technologies enable customers to drive operational efficiency, modernize their systems and optimize processes for smarter decisions and better service. Building on over 40 years of customer-centric innovation, the company is among the top 10 fastest-growing technology companies in the world and is ranked as a “leader” in 15 market categories, fueled by core product families Adabas and Natural, ARIS, Terracotta and webMethods. Software AG has more than 5,400 employees in 70 countries and had revenues of €1.05B in 2012. For more information, visit www.softwareag.com.