Software AG is managed by a Management Board con-sisting of three members, who are appointed, monitored and advised by the twelve members of the Supervisory Board. Moreover, the seven-member Group Executive Board manages the Company’s operational areas and geographic markets. For more detailed information on Software AG management, please refer to the Corporate Governance Report found in the Annual Report.
and Integration, Intelligent Business Operations and Big Data—as well as Software AG Live. The ETS field, known as Transactions, completes the product portfolio.
services were merged under the Consulting segment in January 1, 2013.
Product and brand portfolio
Our entire product portfolio was brought together to form the Software AG Suite. It comprises data, integration and process platforms of established product brands with stan-dardized, harmonized software products that complement
PORTFOLIO
Application Modernization ADABAS-NATURAL Database Management System ARIS
Business Process Analysis ARISGovernance, Risk and Compliance Management
Process Live
ALFABET IT Planning and Portfolio Management
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• Terracotta manages enormous amounts of data (big data) using in-memory technology to search it and re-trieve results in microseconds. This product family im-proves the performance and scalability of applications that work with large volumes of data.
Software AG Live
• Software AG Live is a cloud-based Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) suite that enables organizations to meet their business needs more quickly. It facilitates collaboration in social networks and via mobile devices and can be integrated with existing systems in hybrid cloud environ-ments. Software AG Live consists of:
• Process Live: A collaborative process optimization ap-plication that enables cross-department/location col-laboration for improving requirements management and business processes.
• Portfolios Live: A cloud-based service for immediate, intuitive IT portfolio management.
• AgileAppsLive: Allows non-IT business units to achieve process-driven, situation-specific visual modeling with-out the need for programmers.
lence that enables companies to plan, visualize and eval-uate processes, applications, technologies, data and or-ganizational structures. It offers a central repository that ensures seamless integration of all information. It allows elements for planning, design and development solution scenarios to be reused across an organization. The plat-form provides all process stakeholders in an organization with target-specific information specifically relevant to their daily work. The new version of the platform was unveiled at the end of 2012 and for the first time incor-porates the four technology trends—big data, cloud, mobile and social. The goal is to improve processes faster by applying more know-how and expertise from inside an organization to the design and testing of processes.
Portfolio management
• alfabet features technology platforms for planning and optimizing IT infrastructures. With them, organizations have a complete summary of their current IT portfolio allowing them to manage it and design a new, future-ori-ented architecture. IT environments are mapped in detail displaying everything from requirements, applications and technologies to projects, finances and risks.
Process automation and integration
• webMethods bridges a service-oriented architecture (SOA) with process automation/optimization and real-time monitoring and control of applications. With the help of this platform, organizations can use data from their existing systems to develop and operate automat-ed, flexible and efficient business processes. This is achieved with Web-based programs, known as Web services, that form an independent integratiion layer over existing systems. Web services are unique because they can be reused in their entirety and partially to create new processes quickly.
Today’s enterprises are confronted with a continuous stream of new competitors and market developments emerging from Internet-based business models and globalization trends. Due to the increasing complexity of companies’ pro-cesses and IT infrastructures as well as rapidly changing challenges of the global market, they have to react quickly and adapt their processes flexibly to these new require-ments. Not only product innovation, but ongoing process innovation as well, is needed to have the flexibility to react to dynamic markets accordingly. This is achieved only with a greater level of agility of IT systems, which enables nizations to adapt their business models faster. Every orga-nization’s goal is ultimately sustainable, optimized processes or Business Process Excellence.
Market survey recognition
Numerous studies carried out by independent industry an-alysts confirm the strategy and quality of Software AG’s product and service offering. Relevant industry analysts have been acknowledging Software AG’s portfolio for years with top-ranked positions. Again in fiscal year 2013 numerous positive analyst ratings confirmed Software AG’s product strategy. We were positioned as a leader in 14 market sec-tors by Forrester and Gartner. Software AG received the following distinctions in 2013:
to process 320,000 calls or 80,000 transactions per second.
Adabas is employed primarily on mainframes.
• Natural is a development environment that allows users to create new programs and modify existing ones. It is the basis of hundreds of thousands of mainframe soft-ware applications that support the core processes of organizations across all industries.
The ARIS, Alfabet, webMethods, Apama, Terracotta and Soft-ware AG Live product families belong to the BPE business line. Adabas and Natural form the product offering of the ETS business line.
The sale of our software products generally results in sub-sequent consulting, maintenance and service business. After all, technologies have to be integrated with our customers’
specific IT environments and later expanded, modified and modernized. We have a global team to develop the main-tenance business across countries and business lines, which promotes customer focus and loyalty. We are certain that this will have a positive impact on long-term profitability.