“In this Magic Quadrant, the Leaders have a broad range of capabilities to support EA, combined with the ability to deliver these capabilities to a diverse group of stakeholders. Although each of the Leaders has different strengths, they all provide good capabilities to assist the EA mission to translate business vision and strategy into effective enterprise change. In addition, they have a clear vision of the direction and maturation of the EA discipline.”

Gartner recognizes there are increasing challenges that enterprise architects are facing. “Enterprise architects, beyond the getting-started stage, are eventually challenged with a number of problems beyond the capabilities of office productivity tools to support. These challenges include managing a large number of artifacts; capturing the complex relationships between many elements across those artifacts; conducting gap analysis, impact analysis, scenario planning and modeling; and presenting information to stakeholders. The enterprise architecture (EA) tool market has evolved to produce professional-grade tools designed to address these challenges.”

Software AG has continued its commitment to the enterprise architecture market by ensuring a portfolio of products that complement the base ARIS EA tool. The Software AG ARIS Platform offers value to a variety of  stakeholders both business and IT, extending the value of EA across departments and roles. “Core to our strategy of providing customers with maximum business value is to establish an agile enterprise architecture which allows IT in alignment with business goals and strategies,” said Dr. Wolfram Jost, Chief Technology Officer and member of the Group Executive Board, Software AG. “We are proud to be named in the Leaders Quadrant for Enterprise Architecture Tools in this latest Magic Quadrant. Considering that EA matures into a strategic planning discipline that must be operationalized, ARIS facilitates support for this discipline with its enterprise-class performance, ease-of-use, comprehensive feature set and support for cross-enterprise collaboration. Our customers acknowledge the consistent evolution of ARIS towards social, cloud, mobile and big data/analytics.”

With our upcoming ARIS 9.0 release, our customers will be able to provide every stakeholder with the right tool environment, product perspective, information, data and user interface to address his or her role-specific skills and needs. You can adapt the tool to project-specific requirements, from metamodel to UI configurations. We want to thank our customers for driving continuous innovations that make our product platforms technology market leaders. For more information about ARIS 9.0, download the ARIS 9.0 Innovations Brochure. Share what you think makes our ARIS platform a market leader in the Enterprise Architecture space.

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The ProcessWorld mobile app was a big hit used by 578 attendees. The app was used 12,959 times to choose songs for the general session, download collateral, provide feedback and much more. The LinkedIn group had 352 members, and the Twitter #PW12 hashtag had about 150,000 impressions. Our customers appreciated a new and different way to network and engage with their peers.

The new “Meet the experts” program generated 119 one-on-one meetings with attendees and Software product experts. There were also 61 “executive exchange” meetings scheduled between attendees and Software AG board members.

Attendees were enthused about ways the new 9.0 releases address the cloud – a big topic of interest among nearly all attendees.

CTO, Dr. Wolfram Jost unveils the BIG news about ARIS and webMethods 9.0 in his General Session keynote. Attendees are ready, eager and waiting for cloud, social, big data and mobile in our new releases.

John Rymer, Forrester; Ivo Totev, CMO; Robin Gilthorpe, CEO Terracotta; and Cheryl Hawkins host a press roundtable on the ARIS and webMethods 9.0 release. The journalists represented CIO Magazine, Information Week, ComputerWorld Hungary, IT in Canada and many publications.

Accordingly to the on-site ProcessWorld survey 90% of attendees would recommend ProcessWorld to others and 85% plan to return again. The two biggest reasons customers attend are to learn new approaches to solutions (75%) and see successful project examples (67%).

The new “Quotation Station” video testimonial booth enticed 36 customers to record video comments about Software AG and our products. The video booth was a fun attraction throughout the day and customers were excited to share their stories on camera. Watch some of the videos on youtube.

And the fun and learning didn’t stop there. Check out more photos on our Software AG Facebook page. We look forward to seeing you again next year.

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And it seemed creating a ProcessWorld Linkedin was the answer. In just a couple of weeks, with a few Software AG content experts and a plug or two in our existing ProcessWorld communication efforts, we were able to start connecting our customers together. Being ‘social’ is in our Software AG DNA, in fact it is a huge part of our webMethods 9.0 release, recently featured at ProcessWorld. “Your employees and processes will be empowered to react faster based on real-time events from IT systems. Consider it social media tailored to business demands. That’s the reality of our new webMethods 9.0 social innovations.” More information here.

Our customers showed us they had a lot of questions to ask and our product marketers were eager to engage with our customers as well. Here are just a few things we learned from our customers about the importance of mobile access, the impact of social media, concerns deploying to the cloud and how organizations are leveraging big data solutions:

‘extending business processes to mobile devices’ is the most important feature to organizations polled

‘security seems to be one of the biggest concerns in dealing with cloud based software’ compared to service availability, product support and user adoption

‘how and why BigMemory is proving to be a competitive advantage’ for organizations keeping terabytes of data in-memory

‘how organizations enabled social collaboration for BPM’ through focusing on people centric processes and gamification techniques.

And the conversations aren’t over yet. Customers are sharing ideas on how to model KPIs in ARIS as well as discuss scenarios where my-channels and broker co-exist. We don’t want to limit this learning experience and idea exchange to ProcessWorld so join the discussions now and keep the conversations going. It’s been seen, we all have a lot to learn from each other and being social helps drive peer connections and better product solutions.

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