CeBIT: Software AG Announces its Strategy for the In-memory Management of Big Data

Hanover (ots) -

- Organizations will be able to transform their businesses by
taking maximum advantage of the volume, velocity and variety of
Big Data

- Together, speed and scalability will support entirely new
business processes and faster business decisions

- Central to the strategy is a platform to provide low latency,
in-memory access to huge volumes of data from any source

- Through the integration of in-stream event processing, Software
AG will provide the ability to act on business events moving at
internet speeds

Software AG today announced its strategy for the next generation
of Big Data management, up to 1,000 times faster than current
technologies. This will give customers real-time access to the huge
amounts of business information in Big Data, driving faster business
decisions. Real-time visibility into operational business activities
will also enable companies to design new, innovative and highly
flexible business processes. Central to the strategy is a platform
that uses Software AG's BigMemory technology to rapidly access
terabytes of data of any type and from any source. The platform will
also integrate in-stream business event processing so that customers
gain maximum real-time business intelligence from their Big Data and
a unique competitive advantage.

Software AG's Next-Generation Data Management Platform is designed
to overcome the challenges of managing Big Data using traditional
data management approaches, including the proliferation of data silos
exacerbated by new database types. By integrating its in- memory and
event processing technologies into a single platform, Software AG
will provide the speed, scalability and flexibility needed to meet
changing business requirements. In addition to enabling rapid access
to huge in-memory volumes, the Next-Generation Data Management
platform will interface with existing databases, a range of new data
streams and leading-edge analytic tools.

"Immediate access to large amounts of data and its analysis in
real time increases transparency enabling quick decisions and short
reaction times. This enables organizations to respond to market
changes immediately and realize significant competitive advantages.
High speed and scalability in the analysis of large volumes of data
is a critical success factor for companies", said Software AG CEO,
Karl-Heinz Streibich.

Software AG's BigMemory product is currently deployed at many
large enterprise customers for multi-terabyte in-memory use cases.
The company will build on BigMemory with capabilities that include
in-flight processing of event streams and services for data profiling
and aggregation, making real-time business analytics possible. In
addition, the company will enable the processing of data from all
data environments - (transactional, analytic, relational/non-
relational, Hadoop/NoSQL and social - (in a single in-memory store.

"We are integrating our Business Events technology and BigMemory
to perform real-time analytics", said Software AG CTO, Wolfram Jost.
"Our vision is to provide an in-memory data management platform that
bridges the needs of transactional and analytic applications. This
approach provides low latency access to huge volumes of data to both
enterprise applications and analytics and also interfaces with a
range of new and legacy data stores and analytical tools. This
provides a bridge between the IT of today and tomorrow."

Further details about Software Ag at CeBIT are available at:

http://www.softwareag.com/cebit2012

Contact:
Barbara Kögler
Senior Vice President Corporate Communications
Tel: +49(0)6151-92-1574
Fax: +49(0)6151-92-34-1243
barbara.koegler@softwareag.com

Paul Hughes
Director Media Relations
Telephone +49(0)6151-92-1787
Fax +49(0)6151-92-1623
paul.hughes@softwareag.com