Software AG and MEGA International today announced that MEGA International has become a strategic sponsor of the CentraSite Community.
Through its participation in the CentraSite Community, MEGA International can help companies successfully design, implement, manage and govern a service-oriented architecture (SOA).
Specifically, the MEGA Suite lets companies analyse and plan their business processes by providing a multi-layer view of a company's assets: business strategy, operational and IT requirements, IT systems and service specifications.
This modelling solution helps business analysts and IT architects understand the effects of process change before implementation, and reduce risk, costs and delays.
Together, Software AG and MEGA can shorten the time between business process design and implementation by automating the translation of high-level process analysis into specific business process management (BPM) steps.
MEGA International will integrate the MEGA Suite and CentraSite, the SOA registry/repository jointly developed by Software AG and Fujitsu, to ensure consistent SOA implementations, from business process description to service orchestration.
This will allow customers to search for the right services in the CentraSite registry and to reuse existing services in their business process optimisation project. In addition, MEGA will help design the orchestration of these services and export service definitions automatically into CentraSite using XPDL. With the MEGA Suite, customers will be able to design services that are clearly related to business functions and technical architecture, thereby eliminating the need and the risk of translating design material from one tool into a SOA implementation tool separately.
"It is becoming widely accepted in many industries that the knowledge provided through enterprise architecture is fundamental for a successful SOA," explained Lucio de Risi, president and CEO of MEGA International. "The MEGA Suite provides all involved stakeholders with the most relevant information about a business - processes, functions, technology, and more. We are delighted to provide CentraSite users with a business compass for their SOA programs."
"We are pleased to welcome MEGA International, a company noted by industry experts in enterprise architecture, as a strategic sponsor of the CentraSite Community," commented Dr Peter Kuerpick, Member of the Board, Software AG. "The CentraSite Community is a unique idea that combines the best and the brightest in the SOA community. "
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The CentraSite Community, founded by Software AG and Fujitsu, is a unique approach to:
1) Uniting partners (sponsors) to deliver standards-based, interoperable SOA solutions; and
2) Providing enterprise customers with a single destination for SOA best practices and the latest industry information by leveraging social media tools such as discussion forums, blogs, wikis and RSS feeds.
The CentraSite Community's rapidly growing coalition of sponsors is committed to delivering on the promise of SOA - interoperability and reuse. The aim of the community is to help enterprises in their endeavours to break down legacy, stove-pipe applications into modular components that can be leveraged across different business lines and units.
CentraSite represents the foundation of the CentraSite Community and serves as the central store that provides enterprises with visibility and control over their SOA assets.
To learn more about CentraSite and the CentraSite Community, visit www.soaworks.com.
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Software technology to increase the value of enterprise IT systems. Software AG is a global leader in mission-critical software infrastructure solutions based on open standards. At the forefront of advanced service-oriented architecture (SOA), Software AG enables customers to create powerful enterprise applications - especially in heterogeneous IT environments. Software AG's products Adabas, Crossvision, Natural and Tamino help more than 3 000 customers uncover the full potential of their IT and add value to existing systems. With technology from Software AG, enterprises can: create flexible business applications and processes; extend the value and life of core systems; manage data effectively across the enterprise; and control and govern their SOA.
Software AG has more than 35 years of global IT experience and over 2 600 employees serving customers in 70 countries.
The company is headquartered in Germany and listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (TecDAX, ISIN DE 0003304002 / SOW).
Software AG posted total revenue of EUR483 million (unaudited) in 2006.
MEGA International
MEGA International (www.mega.com), headquartered in Paris, France and founded in 1991, does business in Europe, Asia, North and Latin America through operations and affiliates in the United Kingdom, United States, Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Canada, Mexico, and recently in Tokyo, Central and Eastern Europe. MEGA International's clients include; Alitalia, Allianz, British American Tobacco, Cr'edit Lyonnais, DIRECTV, Morgan Stanley, Nissan, Novartis, Renault, Cardinal Health, Department of Transportation, Department of Homeland Security, USDA, Philip Morris USA, and Wyeth. MEGA is an active contributing member to the OMG and BPMI, and provides solutions for Fortune 2000 companies, several of which are in the Fortune 100, with over 1 800 customers in more than 40 countries and 40 000 licences worldwide. MEGA delivers more than 15 000 consulting engagement days per year.
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