- Software AG
Infobox_Company
company_name = Software AG
company_type = Public (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: SOW)
company_
foundation = 1969
location =Darmstadt ,Germany
key_people = Karl-Heinz Streibich, CEO
David Broadbent
Mark Edwards
Dr. Peter Kuerpick
Arnd Zinnhardt
num_employees = 3,600
revenue = 631M euros (2007)
net_income = 88.4M euros (2007)
products =ADABAS ,ApplinX ,CentraSite ,webMethods ,EntireX , Natural,Tamino XML server
homepage = [http://www.softwareag.com/ www.softwareag.com]Founded in 1969, Software AG is an enterprise software company with over 4,000 enterprise customers in over 70 countries. The company is the second largest
software vendor in Germany, the fourth in Europe (following SAP's acquisition of Business Objects) and among the top 25 globally.Key products include the
ADABAS database management system and the Natural application development language, which are used as core transactional systems by one in five of the Global 500.More recently, Software AG has extended its focus to the middleware market with products for service-oriented architecture (SOA), business process management (BPM), business integration and application modernization. According to research firm Gartner, Inc., Software AG is third globally for enterprise service bus (ESB) and business process management suite (BPMS) market share. These efforts have been aided by the company’s $546M acquisition of U.S. rival
webMethods in 2007.Software AG is traded on the Frankfurt Exchange’s TechDax under the symbol “SOW”.
External links
*http://www.softwareag.com
*http://www.webmethods.com
*http://www.infravio.com
*http://www.gartner.com/DisplayDocument?id=503385
*http://www.truffle100.com/europe/downloads/2007/Truffle100_2007.pdf
*http://www.softwareag.com/Corporate/Company/companyinfo/history/default.asp
* [http://www.computerhistory.org/corphist/view.php?s=select&cid=11&PHPSESSID=638340821f33f8bd06411b4555f0f0a2/ Software AG North America History at the Computer History Museum]
*http://www.gxs.com webMethods / Software AG Global B2B Integration Partner GXS
*http://tech.forums.softwareag.com Technology Discussion Forums
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