Software AG positioned in the leaders quadrant for enterprise architecture tools

Software AG has announced that it has been positioned in the Leaders Quadrant by Gartner, a leading industry analyst firm, in its recently released Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Architecture Tools. Enterprise Architecture (EA) tools bring business value by integrating, analyzing and communicating structured and unstructured information about a wide range of aspects of the organization. With the ARIS platform, Software AG delivers a feature-rich tool set well known for its long-standing leadership in EA and Business Process Analysis (BPA).

Marco Gerazounis, Senior VP Middle East North Africa & Turkey, Software AG, said: “We are proud to be named in the Leaders Quadrant for Enterprise Architecture Tools in the latest Magic Quadrant. ARIS platform is distinguished by its enterprise-class performance, ease-of-use, comprehensive feature set and support for cross-enterprise collaboration. The latest distinction from Gartner is a very important reaffirmation of Software AG’s global leadership in delivering value-driven business process improvement solutions.”

This year, Gartner stated that “the focus on reviewing the product has remained on those capabilities that support and assist an EA team in its day-to-day activities. Some of these activities include modeling, future-state analysis, road mapping, presentational aids, dashboard analysis and scenario planning… With the global economic upheaval continuing throughout 2011, the adoption of EA tools has reflected the need to provide better management, analysis and communication capabilities to demonstrate the value enterprise architects bring to an organization.”

ARIS Solution for Enterprise Architecture Management combines software technology, methodology, best practices and expertise in Enterprise Architecture and is used by customers worldwide to centrally analyze and plan their business processes, organization, applications, data and infrastructure. In order to streamline IT enablement of enterprise processes, the solution helps companies in decision-making to deliver added value with their EA initiatives by supporting business process analysis, business & IT alignment, requirements engineering, application and technology portfolio management and much more. With this Software AG delivers an integrated architecture and design repository based solution for both Business and IT aligning enterprise strategy with operations.