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by Chris Chiappinelli, MA Editorial Staff Posted on Sunday, January 20, 2008 2:00:00 AM Sign Up to receive Daily News Alerts in your E-mail Inbox    | Abstract: | Following its recent acquisitions of webMethods and Jacada, business process integration technology provider Software AG looks forward to further augmenting its integration capabilities with technologies for rules, data integration, and modeling. |
| Keywords: | business process integration technology, IT integration |
With its December 2007 acquisition of a portion of application modernization specialist Jacada Ltd., Software AG has continued down an acquisition path that was punctuated earlier in 2007 by its takeover of IT integration provider webMethods. When Software AG announced its $546 million purchase of webMethods in spring 2007, some observers wondered whether the move would pay off. "We were skeptical when the acquisition was announced for various reasons," says Massimo Pezzini, a Gartner vice president and distinguished analyst based in Milan. The reason for Gartner's wait-and-see approach was an overlap of products between the two companies and the challenge of integrating the Germany-based corporate culture of Software AG with the American-bred webMethods. [Click to continue] |
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