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Mobile, social media, the cloud and big data these four forces are rapidly changing the way businesses work and collaborate with customers, partners and employees. As a Software AG customer, you can make the most of these mega-trends. See what s new with webmethods 9.0 and how our new products and features will inspire your next business innovations. Karl-Heinz Streibich, CEO, Software AG 2
in webmethods 9.0 Cloud-to-Any Integration There s nothing cloudy about our vision for cloud computing. Software AG is committed to delivering clear value in the cloud and webmethods 9.0 innovations prove it. We re introducing our first cloud-to-cloud integration offering to help you reduce costs and easily integrate Software as a Service (SaaS) apps. And, for the first time, you ll be able to centrally manage webmethods on public and private cloud platforms using a single browser-based tool. Powering Your Mobile Landscape Mobile users are well within your reach with webmethods. With new 9.0 innovations, you can extend your business processes to mobile stakeholders using any mobile device. You also can rapidly develop, deploy and manage mobile apps across platforms. Count on secure and reliable mobile access to your back-end systems and tools that make managing users and devices a breeze. Social: Styled for Business Events Imagine a real-time event triggering an instant message to an employee or even activating a process. That s the reality of our new webmethods 9.0 social innovations. Your employees and processes will be empowered to react faster based on real-time events from IT systems. Consider it social media tailored to business demands. Big Data: Big Advantage Software AG is delivering the first milestone of its in-memory data management platform focusing on real-time operational intelligence. To make business apps more responsive and intelligent, our data management platform will enable you to manage and access data at any scale. Move data with minimal latency and analyze data in real-time, extracting mission-critical information on-the-fly. Running Better, Faster Your business is constantly changing and IT must stay ahead of the curve. New webmethods innovations make our software even more dynamic, flexible and scalable. See how you can leverage our proven webmethods suite in new ways to increase IT s agility and make your business more competitive and customerfocused. 3
Re-think the way work gets done. In the cloud webmethods CloudStreams Your organizations may be adopting new SaaS apps to get the latest innovations and to lower capital costs. These new SaaS apps will need to work with your existing onpremise apps and other cloud-based applications. That s not so easy due to security issues, incompatible data formats and protocols and frequent API updates. webmethods CloudStreams is Software AG s first cloud-to-cloud integration offering, bringing together cloud-based integration of SaaS applications, such as Salesforce.com, as well as governance and monitoring capabilities. With CloudStreams, you can: Create and govern connections between any combination of SaaS and on-premise applications Integrate SaaS apps in days rather than months Gain insight into usage Comply with SaaS vendor contracts and industry policies CloudStreams holistically integrates data and applications with strong governance. The software provides out-of-thebox connectors to common SaaS applications and a wizarddriven framework to easily integrate any other cloud-based application. Built on a time-tested integration platform, CloudStreams offers unparalleled performance and scalability. webmethods Command Central Administrators and operations users need a simple way to manage and monitor your highly distributed webmethods implementation environment. webmethods Command Central centralizes your control of webmethods implementations for on-premise and public and private clouds, improving consistency and reducing risk. You can: Gain visibility and control of your entire webmethods landscape Start/stop environments, such as webmethods Integration Server, webmethods Broker and My webmethods Server Configure environments with a single tool Compare configurations, version levels and fix levels across your webmethods landscape Software AG is the first integration and Business Process Management (BPM) software vendor to provide this level of operational visibility and control of products via a single, centralized tool. On the road webmethods Mobile Gateway Mobile apps boost employee productivity and open up new ways to interact with customers. But they also require access to secure and trusted enterprise resources that maintain the integrity of the data and applications. webmethods Mobile Gateway secures and manages the connectivity between mobile apps and internal enterprise resources. As a result, you can: Allow only authorized users, apps and devices on your networks Prevent malicious threats webmethods Mobile Gateway provides the fastest way for webmethods customers to establish a secure infrastructure to provision enterprise resources to new mobile apps. 4
with social media webmethods Pulse Every day, sales are made, customers complain, discussions occur typically these events are captured in siloed systems. It s virtually impossible to get the data to mobile devices because those systems are typically hidden behind a corporate firewall. Collaborate and capitalize on events immediately as they happen with webmethods Pulse. Built from the ground up as a mobile app, Pulse delivers real-time events from your systems directly to your people and processes. Built on our event-driven architecture, Pulse can interact with virtually any event type. Use it on ios and Android devices. Other activity stream apps focus on human interactions without regard for the system information flowing through the corporate event bus. Pulse bridges this gap business users gain visibility into events and can act on them, keeping you responsive. Running better, faster webmethods ActiveTransfer Big News on Big Data Terracotta is the leader in in-memory technologies for enterprise big data. And with webmethods 9.0, we have integrated Terracotta with webmethods to offer unsurpassed scalability. For example: Local distributed data caching increases performance and fault tolerance and reduces I/O bottlenecks Applications can access data inmemory multiple terabytes of data can be retrieved in micro-seconds Very large XML documents can be processed in-memory that means no more iterations by selectively moving chunks into memory The end result? Higher performance with less programming complexity. Setting up and managing hundreds or thousands of file transfers with partners is complex and time-consuming and raises security and compliance concerns. Traditional file transfer methods suffer from reliability and scalability issues and some don t meet today s security requirements. webmethods ActiveTransfer simplifies how you move files of any size, quickly and reliably. It s a highly scalable, centralized solution to: Set up and manage file transfers with trading partners Exchange files regardless of size and volume Meet file transfer-related service level agreements Secure and safeguard mission-critical data ActiveTransfer is the only solution that can provide comprehensive managed file transfer capabilities that are tightly integrated with B2B and application integration in a single platform. 5
Get these suite enhancements when you upgrade to 9.0. APPLICATION INTEGRATION webmethods Integration Server The market-leading enterprise service bus that integrates any technology the backbone of the webmethods suite. Process massive XML documents in-memory with Terracotta s BigMemory integration Guarantee delivery of Web service interactions with WS-RM support Improve security for file transfers with SFTP support Easily integrate and govern SaaS applications, such as Salesforce.com, by adding webmethods CloudStreams Create lightweight REST services that use the JSON format popular for mobile and rich client apps Upgrade worry-free with maintenance mode support Configure, monitor and manage Integration Server from one location with webmethods Command Central webmethods Broker High-performance backbone for messaging between applications. Communicate faster between Brokers on highbandwidth, high-latency networks Configure, monitor and manage Broker from one location with webmethods Command Central webmethods Nirvana Universal messaging platform that streams any volume of data in real-time across the enterprise, Web and mobile. Move data anywhere quickly and in large volumes Insulate your business from outages with active clustering Extend the performance, reliability and reach of webmethods-based solutions B2B INTEGRATION webmethods Trading Networks The world s leading B2B integration gateway. Accelerate and simplify how you on-board partners electronically Reduce errors and improve visibility by using new campaign management and partner self-provisioning Manage your partner community from one location by adding the new webmethods Command Central BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT webmethods BPMS Comprehensive set of integrated tools for automating and managing processes. Make your processes proactive you can initiate process actions based on real-time events, making your business more responsive Choose your own UI framework to build human-task UIs Simplify de-bugging what you debug is what you execute, thanks to BPMN 2.0 compliance Handle sub-processes more easily due to our enhanced BPMN 2.0 support Configure, monitor and manage your BPMS environment from one location with webmethods Command Central webmethods Designer Workstation Local development environment for webmethods tied directly to your team s version control systems. Develop projects locally no need to connect to a centralized development environment Streamline checking in and out project code using version control systems 6
webmethods Business Events Complex Event Processing (CEP) software for insight into realtime events. Handle more events per second, thanks to advanced thread pulling techniques and code enhancements Accelerate development by assembling CEP queries using a graphical query editor Improve stability in high-availability environments Protect your business with secure transport Simplify how you manage complex CEP projects with additional SQL dialects webmethods Optimize for Process Business activity monitoring software for real-time insight into business processes. Easily build dashboards thanks to improved integration with ARIS MashZone Guarantee delivery and minimize the chance of losing event data due to system downtime or software/ hardware failure Take action based on real-time events Save time with better capabilities to manage KPI data webmethods Business Rules Software that defines and changes process rules. Eliminate ambiguity and errors by using rule validation to identify gaps, overlaps or conflicts in rule sets Set your processes to consume events from other webmethods components, making it possible for events to initiate actions, such as starting a process or initiating a service webmethods Communicate Software that incorporates communications, like phone calls and SMS, into processes at run-time. Provide better service to customers and increase your user utilization with improved call-distribution algorithms End calls anytime, not only when the process flow expects the call to be ended Monitor and manage your Communicate processes more easily, thanks to incoming and outgoing SMS messages to create records and simplify billing webmethods Mobile Designer Software to develop and deploy apps on any mobile device. Create native device applications more easily with enhanced HTML 5 support Push notifications to Android and ios devices Program faster using new easily accessible libraries, direct support for SQLite and new native UI components Easily detect that a device has been physically re-oriented Use more mobile cameras and interact more easily with your device s photo library MASTER DATA MANAGEMENT webmethods OneData Master data management software that reconciles, cleanses and synchronizes enterprise master data. Use Apple ipads to access master data from anywhere Increase visibility with new data governance dashboards created with ARIS MashZone Improve performance with Terracotta Enterprise Ehcache enhancements for improved in-memory processing Delegate workflow steps to webmethods BPMS webmethods CSP Content Service Platform (CSP) software that automates content-centric processes to include forms and other documents. Use sophisticated GUI and out-of-the-box APIs View documents faster; add notes and bookmarks Work in the familiar Microsoft SharePoint environment 7
SOA GOVERNANCE CentraSite SOA registry and repository that increases re-use, ensures services quality and improves alignment with the business. Expand CentraSite to non-technical users with a new business-user-friendly interface Enjoy a simplified, clutter-free experience that features customizable actions, keyword search, personalized dashboards and collaboration capabilities Increase automation and avoid manual errors with eventbased automated promotion of assets across life-cycle stages Improve performance with a simplified run-time infrastructure that s easier to manage and more secure Save time with new wizards for importing and exporting assets Configure, monitor and manage CentraSite from one location with webmethods Command Central ABOUT SOFTWARE AG GOVERNMENT SOLUTIONS Software AG Government Solutions provides best-in-class software solutions for integration, service-oriented architecture, big data and business process management. Our core products are webmethods, ARIS and Terracotta. The company s highly trained team takes a special forces approach to solving complex IT challenges quickly and efficiently for the federal government and its supplier communities. The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of Software AG USA with more than 30 years of experience with the federal government. Learn more at www.softwareag-gov.com. webmethods Mediator Service intermediary that controls access and usage of services by enforcing run-time policies. Stay connected to what s new with 9.0! Ensure predictable operations and that customers receive a high level of service using run-time traffic management base polices on specific consumers as well as number of requests per time interval Save bandwidth and improve support for mobile clients wtih dynamic compression of traffic Simplify upgrades with multi-version support you can operate CentraSite and Mediator in mixed-release versions SAG_GS_WM9_BRO_Jan13 Get There Faster.