SOW fundamentals

Software AG provides business process management, data management, and consulting services worldwide. It operates in three segments: business process excellence, enterprise transaction systems, and consulting. The BPE segment offers software products and services for integrated business process management solutions for organizations in various industries. This segment offers ARIS, a technological platform that enables companies to plan, visualize, and evaluate processes, applications, technologies, data, and organizational structures; Alfabet technology platforms for planning and optimizing IT infrastructures; and webMethods, which bridges a service-oriented architecture with process automation/optimization and real-time monitoring and control of applications. It also provides Apama, a platform for real time development of event-driven applications for investment banks, funds, and other institutional traders; Terracotta, which manages data using in-memory technology to search and retrieve results in microseconds; Process Live, a process optimization application; Portfolios Live, a cloud base service for IT portfolio management; and Agile AppsLive for non IT-business units. The ETS segment provides database solutions for mainframes, and development and modernization of mainframe-based IT systems. This segment offers Adabas, database management system; and Natural, a development environment that allows users to create new programs and modify existing ones. The consulting segment provides SAP consulting services for process consulting and German-speaking countries.