With its recent focus on Business Process Excellence following its acquisition of IDS Scheer, it’s perhaps easy to forget that Software AG still has a healthy business as an integration middleware provider. The purchase of Terracotta, announced May 23, doesn’t immediately stand out as a great fit for a company that pitches itself as helping [...]
Posted on Friday, May 27, 2011 by Neil Ward-DuttonThis week we launched the latest in our series of MWD Insights events. This time we’re looking at Process Intelligence (PI). PI is something that’s been around as a concept for a while now, but we’ve found a lot of confusion out there still as to what its focus and scope actually is. Is it [...]
Posted on Thursday, January 27, 2011 by Beth BarlingSo (as usual) I’m far from being the first BPM market/tech commentator to write something on Software AG’s bid for IDS-Scheer; however there’s a few points I’d like to drop into the mix. I have to say I was a little surprised at the acquisition. As I tweeted at the time, I kind of expected [...]
Posted on Wednesday, July 15, 2009 by adminUncategorized
A couple of months back I had a brief Twitter exchange with David Bressler of Progress Software (@djbressler), following a comment I’d seen from Judith Hurwitz (@jhurwitz) at Progress’ analyst day regarding the lack of brand awareness that the company has out there in industry. What I said was: “Progress is a bit like Unilever [...]
Posted on Wednesday, April 1, 2009 by adminUncategorized
As part of yesterday’s release of the latest iteration of its webMethods Insight product Software AG announced an OEM partnership with Progress Software. This announcement adds the Actional runtime SOA management and monitoring technology (which Progress acquired back in January 2006) to Software AG’s existing Centrasite design-time governance capabilities (which were bolstered by the acquisition [...]
Posted on Tuesday, September 9, 2008 by adminOracle today confirmed that it delivered a letter to the Board of Directors of BEA Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: BEAS) on October 9 in which Oracle proposes to acquire BEA for $17.00 per share in cash. The $17.00 per share offer is a 25% premium over yesterday’s closing price of $13.62. This acquisition has been long-discussed [...]
Posted on Friday, October 12, 2007 by adminUncategorized
Apologies for the poor pun, it’s the evening before the Easter break (public holidays on Friday and Monday here in the UK) and I’m feeling festive. So, it’s finally happened. For those of us with the dubious title of “industry watcher” it’s not a particular surprise to see webMethods acquired. We’d heard rumours for some [...]
Posted on Thursday, April 5, 2007 by admin
