Software AG Digital Business Platform

2017

Digital Business Platform as MBaaS service

On March 15, 2017 the Software AG company announced readiness to provide a server part of mobile applications as service (MBaaS).

It is developed for the aid to creators of the web and mobile applications integrating applications for the enterprises and API interfaces of cloud applicaions. It interacts with the webMethods Hybrid Integration platform and the module API Management from Software AG Digital Business Platform.

Providing server part of mobile applications as services (MBaaS):

• allows the companies to provide to mobile applications internal data safely.
• brings financial institutions into accord with EU directive PSD2.
• adds features for MBaaS to a portfolio of integration tools and API of the DBP Software AG platform due to partnership with ApiOmat.
• accelerates creation of prototypes of mobile applications and integration with IT systems of the enterprise.

MBaaS is compatible to the products webMethods Integration and API Management that will allow to bring by 2018 financial institutions into accord with EU directive PSD2. Integrating both solutions, it is possible to develop mobile applications on the basis of own data of bank, to use API interfaces of other banks, data of legacy systems, offering additional products and services.

The Software AG company developed functionality of MBaaS together with ApiOmat.

One of the purposes of the Digital Business Platform platform — to help corporate clients to transform their ideas to real solutions, having offered them the integrated set of technologies and tools for support them digital transformation. Thanks to partnership with ApiOmat we offer clients additional support by application development for external user interfaces to which their customers and employees got used and also to considerably accelerate development and to reduce costs for development. Wolfram Jost, technical director of Software AG

ApiOmat reduces development time, allowing to use more effectively API interfaces and generating the basic code which is necessary for creation of mobile applications and digital interfaces. Instead of reconstruction of conventional components of applications ApiOmat gives to developers an opportunity to implement intuitive design, to connect chat-bots of products and to report to Siri, Alexa or Google Assistant information on specific services.

ApiOmat helps the enterprise to provide mobile solutions, and many of our clients already integrated the IT systems and data warehouses with webMethods. Thus, this partnership and integration open a new era of opportunities for our customers: it is safe to provide access to corporate data through mobile applications, websites and API it becomes very simple. Marcel Etzel, CEO of ApiOmat

ApiOmat and Software AG jointly provide the complete complete solution for consolidation and mobilization of corporate data, management of them through API and any external user interface.

Digital Business Platform на базе Google Cloud Platform

On February 15 the Software AG company announced the beginning of cooperation with Google Cloud Platform and release of the webMethods Hybrid Integration Platform platform. Software AG is also going to provide the Digital Business Platform platform based on Google Cloud Platform.

Wolfram Jost, the technical director of Software AG, comments: "Hybrid integration eventually is necessary for the companies as it is a way to support of both local, and cloud models. Creation of separate infrastructure only for integration with a cloud leads to excessive segmentation of data and reduces advantage of implementation of a cloud. Offering Google Cloud Platform, we expand a set of options of use of a cloud available to our customers".

2016: Digital Business Platform supports a blockchain

On September 21, 2016 the Software AG company announced release of the upgraded functions for the Digital Business Platform platform. Now the platform will help financial institutions to master work with blockchain technology by means of enhanced capabilities of integration and studying of public and private blockchains-applications, to interaction with them.

Implementing a blockchain, the companies, as a rule, do not wish to complicate the operating IT infrastructure. They need to build in quickly a blockchain the processes without tiresome and expensive upgrade of architecture. Interaction a blockchain - the stack and traditional corporate solutions requires existence of the specialized intelligent gateway, Digital Business Platform from^[1] can become it^[1].

According to developers, the platform provides:

• the access control layer to a blockchain guaranteeing its transparent integration into the existing technological solutions;
• possibility of data manipulation and application of a business context at the appeal to a blockchain;
• safe management of a blockchain on the scale of the company or the industry;
• means of event handling and synthesis of data for the complete analysis of the events in block chains and out of them;
• tracking blockchain events, formation of notifications and management of exceptions;
• additional service level for expansion of functionality a blockchain of-applications.

When developing prototypes of applications many organizations think only of options of use of a blockchain, but do not think of how to implement this technology in the processes. The Digital Business Platform platform of Software AG company not only provides necessary infrastructure, but also allows to build in this revolutionary technology processes of the company quickly, without interrupting work and without transforming the existing IT architecture. Nigel Farmer, industry director of Software AG of the capital markets

2015: Platform of creation of digital business

In March, 2015 in Hanover Software AG presented "the first-ever platform of creation of digital business" at the international CeBIT exhibition – Digital Business Platform. According to the technical director of Software AG of Wolfram Jost, it is result of five years' development and includes both own developments of the company, and technologies purchased by it for the last few years.

Digital Business Platform is provided by the solution package of Software AG including products Aris Alphabet, webMethods and Apama, the platform of distributed control by these in-memory Terracota Adabas DBMS and functionally covers several directions, necessary, according to Software AG, for creation of the digital enterprise.

One of them is an integration of various corporate IT systems. The account director of Software AG Eric Duffault notes that if the company wants to be the digital enterprise, the first that it is necessary for it - it is coherence of corporate systems among themselves.

"If the company, for example, uses SAP for work of a back office,CRM SalesForce from a cloud and other applications, it is important that all of them smoothly interacted with each other. Integration opportunities of Digital Business Platform are one of key which it provides", - he notes.

Software AG integrated different tools for creation of digital business in the single integrated platform

One more direction which allows to implement Digital Business Platform is development of flexible adaptive applications to which it is possible to make quickly changes according to the changes happening in the market and requests from different business divisions of the enterprise. The applications developed using Digital Business Platform can work or "permanently", either from a cloud, or on hybrid model and it is possible to use them both from normal PCs, and from mobile devices.

Yost tungsten explained that the speech in this case goes, first of all, about the applications connected directly with client data: applications for marketing, sales, e-commerce, support and service. Digital Business Platform allows to develop them from scratch and to integrate with the platforms which are already existing in the company.

The idea that the architecture of traditional applications is not adapted for rapid changes in the market which the enterprises face is the cornerstone of creation of the platform. Traditional approach to creation of corporate IT systems assumes that applications should be checked, permanent, certain and predictable, note in Software AG.

Yost tungsten is sure that applications with ready business logic, "from a box", quite are suitable for finance and control, for purchase management and other similar processes, however for the processes connected with client data, such applications are insufficiently flexible.

As opposed to traditional approach, Digital Business Platform allows to create the applications focused on permanent fast changings: flexible and substantially opportunistic, speak in Software AG. With their help to the company, using ready platforms, can build the own business logic ready to permanent changes. Any software vendor cannot foresee what will be business logic of the company in several years and in connection therewith to provide it solutions, believe in Software AG.

"In the past of the company discussed whether to purchase ready technologies or to construct them. We are guided by approach "purchase and construct", it is approach with - innovations: the company can purchase possibilities of ready platforms and create on their basis own business logic and proprietary applications so quickly as far as it is necessary", – says Yost Tungsten.

One more direction which covers Digital Business Platform concerns transformation of business processes of the enterprise and management of corporate IT: the solutions included in the platform allow to carry out the analysis of business processes, to exercise risk management and compliance control, to manage planning of IT, an IT portfolio and corporate IT architecture.

In addition, the platform contains the Big Data element, for "smart business management" which gives an opportunity in real time to trace the data and indicators on the different areas of work of the company necessary for acceptance of business solutions.

"Digital Business Platform gives opportunities for management of logic of data, integration logic, logic of processes and decision makings based on the single integrated platform", - summarizes Yost Tungsten.

In turn, Eric Duffaut notes that in spite of the fact that Digital Business Platform is provided by the software package, it is not obligatory to purchase all platform entirely: the client can begin with her separate components, gradually passing to use and others.

He added that, offering a range of tools - from management of IT to the application development environment and means of their integration - Software AG acts as "neutral vendor" of middleware (middleware). A part of such software is offered also by vendors of business applications, such as SAP,Oracle or IBM, however it is, as a rule, intended for the infrastructure based on their solutions. At the same time middleware Software AG is intended for creation of the digital enterprise in a diverse IT landscape, explains the concept "neutralities" of Dyufo company.

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