· Leading industry analyst firm
positions Software AG in the Leaders Quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for
Integrated IT Portfolio Analysis Applications
· Software AG is positioned the
furthest for “Completeness of Vision” and for “Ability to Execute”
· Integrated IT Portfolio
Analysis Applications plays a key role in managing the transformation to a
Digital Enterprise
Dubai, UAE – December 12, 2013 - Software AG today
announced that it has been positioned in the Leaders Quadrant by Gartner, Inc.,
a leading industry analyst firm, for the third straight year in its recently
released “Magic Quadrant for Integrated IT Portfolio Analysis Applications 2013”
by Daniel B. Stang and Jim Duggan, published on November 19, 2013. Amongst the
leaders Software AG is positioned furthest up and to the right for its “Ability
to Execute” and its “Completeness of Vision”.
According to Gartner, "The IIPA
software market helps IT leaders link, monitor, analyze
and communicate their activities on a single portfolio-level software platform,
providing CIOs and other executives with holistic views of the IT portfolio
while IT plans and executes in response to business and IT strategies."
“Todays’ businesses are in the middle of a
dramatic transformation to digital enterprises driven by the four forces of
social, mobile, big data and cloud. With our Integrated IT Portfolio Analysis
Application in place, the CIO office has the intelligence to make the right
decisions on the IT strategy to support this transformation. Furthermore it
gives IT departments the tools to derive the IT strategy from the business
strategy as well as to plan and monitor the transformation of the different IT
portfolios, thus ensuring successful and reliable delivery of the enterprise
transformation,” said Dr. Wolfram Jost, Chief Technology Officer and member of
the Board, Software AG. “We are glad to be able to offer our customers with
planningIT the leading technology in this area.”
The Digital Enterprise: a synthesis of
Business and IT
Software AG is building a suite of
solutions that provides the range of business analysis and IT planning and
execution capabilities necessary to address today’s digital demands. In
particular, its new Business Process and IT Management platform provides the
ability to collaboratively assess the business and operating model from the
business all the way to the supporting solution and technology layer. It
enables the organization to conduct integrated portfolio analysis and combine
this with the strategic and operational plans to result in an overall alignment
and transformation that meets strategic goals as well as constraints that are
present in the regulatory, business, technology and information environment.
Further Software AG platforms deliver the needed IT agility, visibility and
responsiveness through integration and process automation, complex information
management and the means to create real-time solutions for digital business
products.
This
Software AG Suite of platforms helps customers exploit mobile, social, cloud
and big data—whether it’s to transform a specific business process, create
entirely new product lines or change delivery models.
Complimentary
copies of Gartner’s report are available at www.softwareag.com/recognition.
