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FEATURE: SOFTWARE
That was the starting point and not
the endpoint. There have been a lot of
innovations in expanding the platform
innovating deep and wide within that same
platform but in essence, what we do is still
the same. We help organisations transform
themselves by adopting a technology-based
platform. We help them make more value
from the data because that comes part and
parcel with adopting such a platform.
We have also launched Alfabet which is our
business and technology transformation
platform. We have launched an Alfabet
accelerator globally. The Alfabet accelerator
allows organisations to adopt a powerful
technology service in a matter of days and
weeks, rather than months and years as it
has been the case because it is built with
Artificial Intelligence with wizard based
technology that allows organisations
through a series of answering questions to
actually build the model that they need to
use Alfabet. This is a major innovation from
a product perspective.
Software AG has formed a strategic
partnership with Smart Dubai
collaboration between Germany and the
UAE. At the moment, Germany is working
on the final touches of its pavilion for Expo
2020. We are involved in these discussions
and that will form part of our participation in
Expo 2020.
One of the things I mentioned is around
continuous growth. The overall technology
spend in the region is not growing as much
as previously. We believe it’s growing
between the three to five percentage mark
year on year – at present we are growing at
a much faster pace than that.
Are there any new major
products that you’ve
introduced to the market?
The nature of IT budgets is changing, year
on year we see that very clearly. What does
that mean? We see a lot of the traditional
IT spend being shifted into spend that’s
more associated with innovation with
transformation, with digitalisation.
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Infrastructure spend or spend on
applications into these new areas have been
coming to the forefront in the past five years
and this is exactly the area we play in.
So it’s this dynamic of shifting IT budgets,
which is actually driving our business
forward and naturally in order to do that we
continue to innovate on where we started
from. Where we started from was what
we call the world’s first digital business
platform over a decade ago. So we unveiled
to the world what was at that time a very
cutting edge topic with the world’s first
digital business platform.
We have also launched two cloud solutions.
One is the Alfabet FastLane which is our
IT portfolio management in the cloud
environment and the other one is the
webMethods.io integration to connect your
SaaS applications. Alfabet FastLane allows
organisations to generate dashboards and
reports quickly even in the most complex
IT architectures without configuration and
implementation time.
Also over the past 12 months we’ve globally
announced a series of major partnerships,
and I’ll mention three of them. We’ve
announced a partnership with Microsoft
which will help all Microsoft customers
around the world to migrate to cloud on the
benefits of Microsoft Azure. That’s a very big
and hopefully impactful partnership. We’ve
also announced a partnership with Adobe
and a partnership around using IoT on the
Edge with Dell EMC. n
THE NATURE OF IT BUDGETS IS
CHANGING, YEAR ON YEAR WE
SEE THAT VERY CLEARLY.
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