Software AG

Type	Public (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: SOW)
Founded	1969
Headquarters	Darmstadt, Germany
Key people	Karl-Heinz Streibich, CEO David Broadbent Mark Edwards Dr. Peter Kuerpick Arnd Zinnhardt Ivo Totev
Products	ADABAS, CentraSite, webMethods, NATURAL
Revenue	720M euros (2008)
Net income	115.9M euros (2008)
Employees	3,600
Website	www.softwareag.com

Founded in 1969, Software AG is an enterprise software company with over 4,000 enterprise customers in over 70 countries. The company is the second largest software vendor in Germany, the fourth in Europe (following SAP's acquisition of Business Objects) and among the top 25 globally.

In addition to ADABAS database management system and the Natural application development language, Software AG has extended its focus to the middleware market with products for service-oriented architecture (SOA), business process management (BPM), business integration and application modernization. According to research firm Gartner, Inc., Software AG is third globally for enterprise service bus (ESB) and business process management suite (BPMS) market share. These efforts have been aided by the company’s $546M acquisition of U.S. rival webMethods in 2007.^[1] Software AG's webMethods product line has been recognized in numerous categories by Gartner and Forrester.^[2]

Software AG is traded on the Frankfurt Exchange’s TechDax under the symbol “SOW”.

[edit] History

• 2009 A leader in the Forrester Wave for Enterprise Service Buses, Q1, 2009
• 2008 A leader in the Forrester Wave for Integration-Centric BPM Suites, Q4 2008
• 2008 Placed in the Gartner Leaders Quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for B2B Gateway Providers
• 2008 Placed in the Gartner Leaders Quadrant for the Magic Quadrant for Application Infrastructure for SOA Composite Application Projects
• 2008 Placed in the Gartner Leaders Quadrant for the Magic Quadrant for Application Infrastructure for Back-End Application Integration Projects
• 2008 Placed in the Gartner Leaders Quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for Business Process

Management Suites BPM

• 2008 Placed in the Gartner Leaders Quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for Integrated SOA Governance Technology Sets

[edit] References

1. ^ Software AG Aims for SOA Leadership With webMethods Deal
2. ^ See analyst information.

[edit] External links

• Software AG Website
• Software AG North America History at the Computer History Museum
• Technology Discussion Forums

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