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Governance at core of Software AG SOA strategy

Publié le: 26/07/2007

Abstract of an article published at SearchWebServices.com, by Rich Seeley, News Writer

Governance is at the heart of Software AG's strategy to become a billion Euro service-oriented architecture (SOA) software vendor by 2011.

"The plan unveiled by Software AG this week blends governance software it developed with Fujitsu Ltd., with the ESB and BPM technology it acquired with the its purchase of webMethods Inc. in April, plus policy products webMethods got when it bought Infravio Inc. last fall.

Explaining this complex fusion at a Webinar for analysts and journalists on Monday, Ivo Totev, chief marketing officer for Software AG, said the prominence of governance in its future SOA software offerings was based on experience with customers."

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"Around the CentraSite governance core, all the other SOA related products including the enterprise service bus (ESB) and business process management (BPM) products will be marketed under the webMethods brand. Totev acknowledged that the acquisition of webMethods was as much about market presence as technology. To achieve its ambitious goal of becoming a major global SOA vendor, Software AG, based in Germany and known largely as a European company, needed the webMethods customer-base and name recognition in the United States, he said."

Following Monday's Webinar, Jason Bloomberg, senior analyst with ZapThink LLC., was guardedly optimistic about the company's chances of success after listening to Totev's presentation. The analyst was impressed with Software AG's emphasis on governance.

"They lead with SOA governance, which is an important priority for them to have," he said. "Another key strength is that their ESB vision focuses on a mediation version and an orchestration version, two capabilities that are more critical to SOA infrastructure than simple integration is. Also, their business process tooling is unsurprisingly quite strong, as both companies had good, SOA-capable products in this space going into the merger."