Fujitsu and Software AG announce a strategic alliance to deliver a joint integration offering for service oriented architecture

SOA is a standards-based organizational and design methodology for redesigning business systems and applications to more closely align with the functional processes of the organization.

By leveraging the companies' complementary technology platforms and global R&D expertise, Fujitsu and Software AG intend to deliver a methodology with a framework and integrated metadata repository designed to speed development, improve business productivity and enable flexibility to meet changing business demands.

Through this partnership, Fujitsu and Software AG plan to introduce a joint offering in the summer of 2005. Software AG is currently offering Interstage Business Process Manager, Fujitsu's business process management solution, in conjunction with its suite of products.

"Software AG Middle East office which is based in Bahrain is pleased to extend the services of a unique Business Process Manager which is a result of joint efforts from the German Giant Software AG and the Japanese Giant Fujitsu. Our clients will benefit from this joint solution to improve their business process and have better visibility of their information across any platform." Mohammed Al-Fardan said, Software AG Middle East Business Development Manager.

"Software AG shares Fujitsu's values of customer focus, continual innovation and excellence in all aspects of business," said Yoshiyuki Tanakura, Corporate Vice President, Fujitsu Limited. "The fact that our respective technologies and business perspectives fit together so well points to significantly reduced time-to-market for a joint offering. This is very good news for our customers."

"Today's announcement marks a significant milestone in Fujitsu and Software AG's commitment to bring substantial benefits to our current and future customers," said Karl-Heinz Streibich, CEO of Software AG. "By bringing together our complementary technologies and our mutual understanding of the evolving role of global IT, we can offer a compelling new approach to business integration."

"SOA is the technical foundation underneath service-oriented IT. Services provide the incremental building blocks around which business flexibility revolves, but services need a supporting architecture for their deployment, delivery, and management," notes John R. Rymer, vice president at Forrester Research. In his December 2004 report, Integration Landscape 2005, he adds, "SOA delivers business value on three dimensions: connections, change, and control."