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-Dutton
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 admin
At the end of last week a webMethods’ press release popped into my inbox highlighting a recent demonstration of interoperability between the company’s UDDI-based registry (acquired with Infravio), HP’s Systinet registry and one of Layer 7 Technologies’ SecureSpan XML appliances. In a nutshell, the three companies showed how policies attached to services in a UDDI [...]
Posted on Thursday, May 3, 2007 by admin
Here’s another in our series of interviews with vendors offering SOA “solutions”. This time we spoke to Miko Matsumura, head of product marketing for SOA at webMethods. In this conversation we ask the usual four questions – and also chat about the importance of webMethods’ SOA Link program, the role of the Infravio Governance Rules [...]
Posted on Thursday, April 26, 2007 by admin
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
