Satyam, Software AG expand global partnership
ConvergenceAsia staff
11/12/2007

Software AG, a global provider of business infrastructure software, and Satyam Computer Services, a global consulting and IT services company, have recently announced an expansion of their global partnership.

Both companies have committed to the joint development of vertical solutions using the webMethods product suite. These business process frameworks will address the industry-specific requirements of key sectors, including insurance, manufacturing and telecommunications. Furthermore, Satyam will continue to invest in its Software AG/webMethods practice, currently the company’s largest enterprise application integration (EAI) practice with over 300 trained consultants.

The emergence of SOA, BPM and other more adaptive technologies means that reuse and composition are now a viable alternative to traditional development. By combining proven IT building blocks with externally-maintained business logic, custom solutions can be more quickly created and more easily maintained as a result, said Arnold Huffman, Senior Vice President for Strategic Business Solutions (SBS) & Business Development, Software AG.

“Our focus on encapsulating our shared best practices as adaptable and cost-effective process frameworks will help us scale our efforts to provide enterprises with more precisely targeted solutions,” he said.

The webMethods suite encompasses top-ranked technologies for business process management (BPM) and performance monitoring, legacy modernisation, service-oriented architecture (SOA) governance and a standards-based enterprise service bus (ESB) for integration and interoperability. By bringing these components together with an industry or process-specific framework, vertical solutions addressing unique business requirements can be more readily implemented.

Said Joseph Lagioia, Global Head, Consulting & Enterprise Solutions, Satyam Computer Services, “Building upon our experience in the telecommunications sector and the capabilities of the webMethods suite, we’ve developed a highly adaptive business process solution for addressing these requirements. It brings together process automation, service monitoring and order configuration as a comprehensive solution for fulfillment and provisioning. As a framework-based solution, it can also be implemented faster than conventional applications and updated more easily to reflect changing business conditions.”

The Software AG/webMethods practice at Satyam is the company’s largest EAI practice. Satyam’s internal Centre of Excellence (CoE) employs more than 300 trained webMethods professionals. Key competencies include strategy development, implementation planning, system migration, management and maintenance, and the creation and staffing of Integration Competency Centres (ICC).

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