Metismo

Purchase of Software AG of mobile developer Metismo will make to available Russian clients of the webMethods system access to it from different mobile platforms.

Software AG buys Great Britain company Metismo, the developer of cross-platform mobile applications. The Metismo Bedrock platform allows programmers to create applications on Java.

The corporate compiler CrossCompiler converts the created Java code into the binary code "native" for each of the used mobile operating systems, for example the Apple iOS, Google Android, BlackBerry OS, HP WebOS or Windows Phone.

According to Matt Green (Matt Green), the vice president for products of Software AG responsible for the mobile strategy of vendor, influence of new mobile Internet technologies and new devices "quickly transforms industrial IT systems".

"The Metismo technology in a complex resolves an issue cross-platformernnogo mobile access to corporate applications that will provide to our clients and partners the unprecedented platform for start of improvement of mobile performance", - he said.

The transaction became known according to the technical director of Software AG of Wolfram Jost: he announced purchase during the performance at an annual client and partner conference of Process World company in Berlin, having positioned the transaction as a key step to implementations of mobile strategy of vendor. At the same time terms of transaction are not disclosed yet.

The Metismo company was founded in August, 2007 by John Chasey,Glenn Broadway,Nick Reed and Matthew Cope who were earlier the staff of developer of the mobile games IOMO which in turn is division of InfoSpace.

Let's remind that last week Software AG already announced one more absorption. Then the Terracotta company specializing in cloud services and the software for availability control of services was purchased.

As Oleg Beylezon told TAdviser, the department director infrastructure both VRM resheny Software AG Russia and the CIS countries, distribution of functionality of the webMethods BPMS platform on mobile devices using Metismo technologies is a natural and necessary stage of development of the platform for our present and future clients. "For our clients in Russia, the country with the high level of use of mobile technologies and high requirements to "mobility" of business, such opportunities of webMethods can be critically important", - he told.

However, in the Russian division of the company do not specify when the solution Metismo becomes well local customers of Software AG.