Software AG Announces Certified Adapters for Integrating COBOL and PL/I Applications with SAP NetWeaver®

Business Wire, May 11, 2006

RESTON, Va. -- Software AG Opens SAP(R) NetWeaver Exchange Infrastructure (XI) to Full Bi-Directional Communication with a Majority of the World's Business Applications

Software AG, Inc. today announced that it has extended its Legacy Integrator family of adapters to enable COBOL and PL/I users to easily integrate their legacy systems with the SAP NetWeaver(R) open application, integration and composition platform. COBOL remains the most widely deployed programming language in big business, according to Gary Barnett, Research Director of Ovum, and accounts for 75% of all computer transactions, with over 200 billion lines of code in production and growing at 3% to 5% annually. These applications - along with those written in PL/I and Natural 2006, Software AG's application development platform - can now communicate bi-directionally with SAP NetWeaver. All adapters have been certified by SAP, allowing customers to transparently link applications into their SAP(R) solution-based environment. Software AG's objective is to fully address the integration requirements of companies with legacy investments.

The SAP NetWeaver XI adapters for COBOL, PL/I, Natural and EntireX are fully integrated into the SAP NetWeaver Exchange Infrastructure (SAP NetWeaver XI), an essential component of the SAP NetWeaver platform - helping assure central configuration, administration and monitoring. All adapters support synchronous and asynchronous bi-directional communication. Communication can be initiated by legacy applications or by an SAP process. The adapters are available from Software AG worldwide as part of the Legacy Integrator family for SAP NetWeaver.

The adapters offer fast integration of existing legacy applications and acceleration of business processes through real-time data exchange. They can fully leverage applications running on mainframes, iSeries or UNIX systems, incorporating them into SAP NetWeaver XI. SAP NetWeaver customers can now benefit from Software AG's legacy integration capabilities and experience.

Leading companies, such as Volkswagen Financial Services AG and ZDF in Germany as well as ThyssenKrupp in Italy, are using Software AG's SAP NetWeaver XI Adapters to streamline business processes and reduce infrastructure complexity.

According to Sonia Bertocco, CIO, ThyssenKrupp AST, "ThyssenKrupp AST has chosen Legacy Integrator for SAP NetWeaver because of its broad capabilities - ensuring that not only our current but also our future legacy integration requirements will be met. Our pilot project confirmed that we made the right choice: besides the high stability and performance of the adapters we also found that they were extremely well integrated into SAP NetWeaver XI - an important aspect if you aim for reduced complexity and reduced TCO."

"We are pleased to announce the expansion of our range of adapters to include COBOL and PL/I applications, and more fully address the integration requirements of legacy users," said Dr. Peter Kuerpick, Member of the Board responsible for crossvision R&D and Marketing. "A major part of business software and data resides on mainframes, and at Software AG we are committed to providing technology allowing enterprises to fully utilize these assets."

The Legacy Integrator family for SAP NetWeaver now includes the SAP NetWeaver XI Adapter for COBOL, the SAP NetWeaver XI Adapter for PL/I, the SAP NetWeaver XI Adapter for Natural and the SAP NetWeaver XI Adapter for EntireX.

About Software AG, Inc. (North America)

Software AG, Inc. is based in the metropolitan Washington D.C. area and provides enterprise-class data management and integration solutions to customers in sectors such as local, state and federal government, insurance and public retirement. Software AG, Inc.'s customers include American Fidelity Assurance Company, National Gypsum Company, The California State Public Employee Retirement System (CalPERS), New York City Department of Buildings, Export Development Canada and the US Export-Import Bank.

Software AG, headquartered in Darmstadt, Germany, provides a full range of products and services to deliver a service-oriented architecture (SOA) IT infrastructure, based on over thirty-five years experience in high-performance databases, application development tools and integration technologies. Its technology offers process driven integration through legacy modernization and SOA based integration. Software AG helps its customers to achieve a competitive advantage through flexible and adaptive business processes based on fast and easy integration of existing IT assets. It supports the mission-critical systems of over 3,000 customers globally. Software AG is represented in around 70 countries with more than 2,700 employees. It is listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (TecDAX, ISIN DE 0003304002 / SOW). In 2005 Software AG posted 438 million Euros in total revenue. www.softwareag.com.

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