Inspire to Innovate| Digital Business Platform 2.0 and Transformation

Anyone who believes that digitalization is a passing trend is completely mistaken. Digitalization won’t stop, not now, and certainly not in the future. It’s better to get on board than to stick your head in the sand and hope for the storm to pass. Get out of the standard IT and into decentralized, flexible, agile programming in collaboration with customers. This is the only way to successfully transform into a digital business.

The Digital Business Platform 2.0 includes new assets and technologies to develop and integrate differentiating applications at the speed, and with the flexibility, needed as digitization opens up unprecedented new business opportunities to enterprises fast enough to take them “Wolfram Jost” expanded on Software AG’s vision and features as follows: “In the face of growing digitization, organizations have to reinvent their business and create new business models and designs to remain successful. In combining people, business and things they also have to adapt their IT systems to rapidly changing business conditions. To complete this transformation to a fully digital enterprise requires unprecedented understanding and cooperation between IT and business decision makers. Software AG’s Digital Business Platform 2.0 bridges this communication gap from strategic digitization planning to application development and implementation.

As digital transformation evolves and grows, companies will need to respond quickly to changing consumer behavior and consequently adapt their offerings and internal processes accordingly. This requires faster development cycles for IT applications, and web Methods DevOps can play a critical role in helping make this happen.” What’s the point of mastering the challenges of ? What differentiates the much-vaunted platforms from traditional monolithic IT systems, and how can they help to produce the necessary individual software in the form of apps? Platforms like the Digital Business Platform from Software AG do not consist of a single huge component. Rather, they have various building blocks that are implemented individually and can be supplemented gradually.

Software AG’s Digital Business Platform is comprised of five building blocks:

Building block #1: for business and IT transformation. The transformation of processes as well as IT is not a technological task, but rather one of human intelligence. However, it can be supported with tools and methods for smart decision-making in the future. BPA and IT management tools (like ARIS and Alfabet) are very valuable here.

Building block #2: for in-memory data storage. In the future, data will be managed in- memory for real-time access and analysis within milliseconds. Performance and scale are the key challenges of digital business. In-memory tools (like Terracotta) deliver the technological foundation.

Building block #3: for integration. Monolithic applications will continue to exist, but other systems will join them. SaaS applications, mobile applications, social networks and partner applications. All of these systems need to be integrated to achieve seamless processes. Therefore, integration is the order of the day — which integration tools and API management tools deliver (e.g., with webMethods).

Building block #4: for processes. Companies that want to change their business must change their business processes. The core of every business model. Last but not least, it is the process innovations that distinguish digital from traditional companies. Supporting components for these include agile apps and BPMS tools (e.g., webMethods BPMS and AgileApps).

Building block #5: for real-time data analysis and decision-making. Making faster and better decisions is also at the core of every digital strategy. Collecting, storing, analyzing and visualizing data that is relevant to decision-making is therefore a crucial ability for a digital enterprise. This applies to both static as well as real-time data. Components like Apama and webMethods Operational Intelligence are available for real-time analysis and operational intelligence Digitalization never stops“IT is the business.” “Software is eating the world.” “Platform beats product.”

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