Software AG Wins Eleven Readers’ Choice Awards from SOA World Magazine

RESTON, Va.--Software AG, a global leader in business infrastructure software, today announced that it was the recent recipient of eleven 2007 SOA World Magazine Readers’ Choice Awards. Winners were recognized in twenty categories by SYS-CON Media, the world's leading i-technology media and events company, on the basis of voting by subscribers.

“Recognition from actual practitioners, such as readers of SOA World magazine, is significant as their first-hand experience reinforces the importance of our commitment to ease-of-use as a means for maximizing user productivity,” said Ivo Totev, Chief Marketing Officer, Software AG. “We are honored to receive these awards and we remain committed to providing users with world-class business infrastructure software for achieving their service-oriented architecture objectives.”

Software AG was awarded Readers’ Choice Awards by SOA World magazine in the following categories:

• Best BPM Engine
• Best Framework
• Best GUI for Web Services Product
• Best Integrated Services Environment (two winners)
• Best Legacy Adapter
• Best SOA/Web Services Book
• Best SOA /Web Services Platform
• Best Tool/Platform
• Best Web Services or XML Site
• Best XML Database

"The heart of SOA is the re-use of business components, something Software AG has always embraced as core to its vision of how to manage IT assets and business processes," said Jeremy Geelan, Senior Vice President, Editorial & Events, SYS-CON Media. "Our readers are concerned with leveraging existing investments, and when they select technologies and vendors in this way it is strictly because of the business benefits and the ROI involved. They clearly applaud the webMethods product suite, and open standards, as do all involved in the Readers' Choice Awards. We offer Software AG hearty congratulations on its well-deserved results."

webMethods an eWeek Excellence Award Finalist, SD Times honoree

Earlier this year, the editors of eWeek, a Ziff Davis Media publication and one of the IT industry’s leading enterprise magazines, recognized webMethods’ flagship product suite as a finalist in the publication’s Seventh Annual eWeek Excellence Awards. webMethods was recognized in the “Business Integration Systems” category.

According to the eWeek editors involved in the judging, “[t]raditionally, when one thinks of webMethods' integration tools, high levels of complexity are what immediately jump to mind. But with Fabric 7, webMethods makes it much easier for business analysts to create and manage business processes and integrations using simple drag-and-drop development tools. We also liked how Fabric 7 embraces the cutting edge of Web and integration technologies, including support for key Semantic Web standards such as RDF and OWL.”

The company was also honored by the editors of SD Times as they named webMethods to the Fifth Annual SD Times 100 for 2007. This list recognizes the one hundred most influential individuals and organizations in software development. According to the editors, the company “…took SOA and turned it into a tangible, actionable system for enterprise integration. Likewise, it ran at the head of the pack in the BPMS space.”

Software AG | Uhlandstraße 12 | 64297 Darmstadt | Germany

Software AG’s 4,000 global customers achieve measurable business results by modernizing and automating their IT systems and rapidly building new systems to meet growing business demands. The company’s industry-leading product portfolio includes best-in-class solutions for managing data, enabling service oriented architecture, and improving business processes. By combining proven technology with industry expertise and best practices, our customers improve and differentiate their businesses – faster.

Software AG has more than 35 years of global IT experience and 3,800 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 revenues of €483 million in 2006.

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