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Software AG: The Future is Digital Platform Based Co-innovationSoftware AG (Frankfurt TecDAX: SOW) unveiled its Digital Business Platform 2.0 at its major customer event in Las Vegas today. 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 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. For more information on Software AG's Digital Business Platform see: Digital Business Platform About Software AG Software AG empowers customers to innovate, differentiate and win in the digital world. Its products help companies combine existing systems on-premise and in the cloud into a single platform to optimize and digitize their businesses. The combination of process management, data integration and real-time analytics in one middleware platform enables customers to drive operational efficiency, modernize their systems and optimize processes for smarter decision-making. Building on over 45 years of customer-centric innovation, Software AG is ranked a leader in many innovative IT categories. Software AG has more than 4,400 employees in 70 countries and had total revenues of €858 million in 2014. Learn more at www.softwareag.com. Software AG, 11700 Plaza America Drive, Reston, VA, 20190 Follow us on Twitter (News - Alert): Software AG Global
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