* The acquisition of LongJump will allow Software AG customers to rapidly build flexible situational and process-driven applications in the cloud and with minimal development times.
* LongJump's platform-as-a-service capabilities allow applications to be deployed in public or private clouds, on-premises or to any mobile device.
* End-user, self-service application development and platform-as-a-service capabilities are key to efficiently managing and driving the digital enterprise.
Software AG today announced the acquisition of the cloud platform vendor, LongJump, based in Santa Clara, California. The acquisition allows Software AG to extend its customer offerings to address departmental and small and medium enterprise (SME) projects through end-user, self-service application development. This gives enterprises the agility and responsiveness needed by customers to address continuously changing business demands.
Software AG will also continue to develop and extend LongJump's platform-as-a-service products for fast and flexible cloud-based development and deployment of situational and case management applications.
"The digital enterprise is all about real-time business insights driving fast decisions and faster reactions," said Wolfram Jost, CTO at Software AG. "With this latest acquisition, we have taken a major step in optimising both the business knowledge and IT skills needed to develop flexible, business-process driven situational applications and deploy them rapidly wherever they are needed."
Key benefits of LongJump include:
* End-user development: self-service development is key to overcoming the resource constraints that IT groups are facing as they digitise their enterprise.
* Cloud: deployment of solutions on the public or private cloud, on-premises or within hybrid environments, offers unmatched flexibility when choosing the development, deployment and production environments.
* Flexible process-based applications: application development is based on a flexible process approach utilising models and templates (metadata). No coding is necessary.
* Mobile: deployment to any mobile device is supported with utmost ease, since applications are automatically mobile-ready with built-in security and access based on enterprise authentication policies.
"More people across the organisation can now participate in processes of innovation and differentiation," says Pankaj Malviya, CEO and Founder of LongJump. "LongJump can now leverage Software AG's strength in enterprise connectivity and business process to provide business users and IT departments with more agility to respond to changing business requirements, automate their situational processes, improve team data sharing and integrate with systems of record."
Software AG believes the IT industry is going through a game-changing revolution driven by big data, cloud, mobile and social collaboration technologies. These four forces are having a profound impact on how enterprises operate and engage with customers, partners and employees. Enterprises must have a unique digital strategy if they are to successfully compete in this new era. Future competitive advantage will be driven by real-time market information, collaborative and rapid business decisions, the ability to respond through agile business applications and processes and by utilising digital channels to serve customers faster.
LongJump's technology is fully complementary to Software AG's ARIS, Terracotta and webMethods product suites, extending the company's business value both within existing enterprise customers and to SMEs. A full roadmap of the integration of LongJump with Software AG's integration, process and big data offerings will be issued in due course.
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