Software AG and alfabet announce joint technology solution for end-to-end SOA planning and governance
- alfabet joins the CentraSite Community as strategic sponsor
- alfabet’s planningIT product analyses how efficiently an enterprise’s IT infrastructure supports its business strategy, processes and operations
- planningIT also provides an IT impact and cost analysis for introducing business process change
- With Software AG’s Crossvision Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Suite this transparency in IT planning is extended to the full SOA lifecycle
- Software AG and alfabet will jointly present the details of this solution at the CeBIT 2007 conference in Hanover, Germany March 15-21
Darmstadt, Berlin, Germany, 3/15/2007
Software AG and alfabet today announced a cooperation to provide end-to-end SOA planning and governance. In addition, alfabet has become a strategic sponsor of the CentraSite Community. Through its participation in the CentraSite Community, alfabet can help companies successfully design, implement, manage and govern a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). Specifically, alfabet’s planningIT product allows enterprises to perform top-down planning by providing a multi-layer view of a company’s IT assets: from business processes, organizational structure and software applications to the systems software and IT server infrastructure. This highlights how efficient and cost effective the IT infrastructure is in supporting business processes and strategy. It also provides an impact and cost analysis for the introduction of any necessary changes. CentraSite, jointly developed by Software AG and Fujitsu, operates on planningIT’s planning decisions for service design, implementation and deployment in a runtime environment. After service deployment, reporting facilities track the status, usage and impact of any change to services. This information is returned to planningIT to ensure that the central SOA planning and governance effort is supported by current and complete data.
In implementing advanced Service-Oriented Architecture solutions, enterprises are challenged by many issues: the full integration of existing applications and systems, restructuring the organization into business domains, identifying SOA-relevant business services, composing SOA processes and measuring SOA performance. Enterprises realize that their SOA efforts will provide a significant return on investment when basic enterprise architecture and SOA governance procedures are firmly in place.
“Over the course of several engagements with Global 2000 clients, we saw a common set of needs to consistently plan and govern the creation and maintenance of service oriented architectures from a strategic through to an operational level”, said alfabet’s CEO Erik Masing. “Downstream integration with CentraSite means that enterprises can now maintain an overview of the evolution of SOA artifacts and service lifecycles based on reliable and consistent visual data and information.”
“Our customers are increasingly recognizing the need for services to be planned, governed and developed as part of a broad SOA strategy”, said Dr. Peter Kuerpick, Member of the Board, Software AG. “alfabet’s planningIT solution is an ideal complement to CentraSite, as it enables services of strategic importance to the enterprise to be readily identified, understood in terms of their architectural context and centrally planned before going into design and implementation phase.”
Software AG and alfabet will be showcasing the solution at CeBIT 2007 as part of Software AG’s ‘Road to SOA’ program, Hall 4, Booth A12. To book a product demonstration, please visit the alfabet website: http://www.alfabet.de/planningIT/EVENTS/CEBIT2007/index.htm
About the CentraSite Community
The CentraSite Community, founded by Software AG and Fujitsu, is a unique approach to:
1) uniting partners (Sponsors) to deliver standards-based, interoperable SOA solutions; and
2) providing enterprise customers with a single destination for SOA best practices and the latest industry information by leveraging social media tools such as discussion forums, blogs, wikis and RSS feeds.
The CentraSite Community’s rapidly growing coalition of Sponsors is committed to delivering on the promise of SOA – interoperability and reuse. The aim of the community is to help enterprises in their endeavors to break down legacy, stove-pipe applications into modular components that can be leveraged across different business lines and units.
CentraSite is a standards-based registry and repository jointly developed by Fujitsu and Software AG and continuously enhanced by the CentraSite Community Sponsors. CentraSite represents the foundation of the CentraSite Community and serves as the central store that provides enterprises with visibility and control over their SOA assets.
To learn more about CentraSite and the CentraSite Community, visit www.soaworks.com.
Software AG | Uhlandstraße 12 | 64297 Darmstadt | Germany
Software technology to increase the value of enterprise IT systems
Software AG is a global leader in mission-critical software infrastructure solutions based on open standards. At the forefront of advanced Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Software AG enables customers to create powerful enterprise applications – especially in heterogeneous IT environments. Software AG’s products Adabas, Crossvision, Natural and Tamino help more than 3,000 customers uncover the full potential of their IT and add value to existing systems. With technology from Software AG, enterprises can: create flexible business applications and processes; extend the value and life of core systems; manage data effectively across the enterprise; and control and govern their Service-Oriented Architecture.
Software AG has more than 35 years of global IT experience and over 2,600 employees serving customers in 70 countries. The company is headquartered in Germany and listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (TecDAX, ISIN DE 0003304002 / SOW). Software AG posted total revenues of €483 million (unaudited) in 2006.
alfabet AG was established in 1997 in Berlin and provides a standard, integrated software suite planningIT® which empowers enterprises to optimize IT spending and performance and plan IT like a business. The company serves a global user community of 15,000 IT professionals in the automotive, finance, telecommunications, logistics and transport, tourism, chemicals, energy and consulting service industries. Among alfabet’s customers are international corporations such as DaimlerChrysler, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bahn and T-Systems. Leading industry IT research firms like Gartner and Forrester are increasingly recognize alfabet as a contender with a fresh approach.
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