Easy to use mobile apps development platform

* Metismo provides an easy to use mobile apps development platform.* Mobile devices will enhance business processes with rich functionality just as GPS, video and audio.* The total “mobile office” will enable the monitoring and management in real-time.* Software AG's flexible mobile platform is available right away.

In addition, data from mobile devices just as GPS, audio and video can be integrated within in-house business applications. On the one hand, established business processes can react to external mobile information in real-time, and on the other, they can be managed and controlled from anywhere. This comprehensive integration will lead to the total “mobile office”, independent of place and time. The availability of process-driven mobile applications is a major step towards the fully, real-time “digital enterprise”.

Metismo was founded in July 2007 and has its headquarters in Hampshire in the UK. The company's write once - run anywhere software platform for the development of mobile applications converts Java source code to native source code for different mobile devices. Business applications are generated easily that run on all common mobile operating systems. This leads to a drastic reduction in development time of mobile apps.

Metismo's innovation is used in millions of units sold via Apple AppStore, Google Marketplace, Nokia Ovi, BlackBerry App World and operator portals.

“This is a key innovation in enabling the fully digital enterprise,” said Software CTO Wolfram Jost. “This transformation to the digital enterprise will be the major business challenge of the then decade. Companies have to react to rapidly changing markets and new market entrants. It is through real-time business information, management and control, from anywhere that they will be able to react fast enough to gain real competitive advantage.”

A perfect example of the structural changes through mobile applications is emerging “mobile payments”, forecast to reach over a trillion dollars in the then and there three years. The accompanying revolution in payment systems will require new, creative business models from banks, mobile operators and retailers, which must quickly react to changed business rules.

The acquisition of Metismo will furthermore extend Software AG's market leadership in business process excellence and enhances the company recently announced acquisition of US software vendor Terracotta. The latter forms, with its in-memory research, the basis of Software AG's cloud offerings.

The portfolio enhancement

The portfolio enhancement, in combination with the CEP-research for complex event processing, offers a high benefit to Software AG clients. They can re-use their existing IT applications with limits, everywhere, and together profit from a unequalled level of system performance: with this most advanced innovation solution available for analysing vast amounts of data more efficiently and cost-effectively, anywhere and from any device. This new Software AG offering provides critical information in real-time, higher transparency and better control of their business processes and operations.

“The emergence of new mobile Internet technologies and devices is rapidly transforming enterprise computing,” said Matt Green, Vice-President of Product Management at Software AG, responsible for group mobile strategy. “The Metismo innovation solves the complex issue of cross-platform mobile access to the enterprise, providing our clients and partners with a state-of-the-art solution and launch-pad for unique mobile productivity.”

The global leader in business process excellence

Software AG is the global leader in business process excellence. Its 40 years of research include the invention of the first high-performance transactional database, Adabas; the first business process analysis platform, ARIS; and the first B2B server and SOA-based integration platform, webMethods.

It offers its clients end-to-end business process management solutions delivering low total cost of ownership and high ease of use. Its industry-leading brands, ARIS, webMethods, Adabas, Natural, CentraSite and IDS Scheer Consulting, represent a unequalled portfolio encompassing: process strategy, design, integration and control; SOA-based integration and data management; process-driven SAP implementation; and strategic process consulting and services. Software AG had revenue of €1.1 billion in 2010 and has more than 5 600 employees serving 10 000 enterprise and public institution clients across 70 countries. Its comprehensive software and services solutions allow companies to uninterruptedly achieve their business results faster. The company is headquartered in Germany and listed on the Frankfurt