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Software AG Partners with AXOOM, to Bring Industrial Strength Analytics to Manufacturers
[April 24, 2017]

Software AG Partners with AXOOM, to Bring Industrial Strength Analytics to Manufacturers


Software AG (Frankfurt TecDAX:SOW) today announced a partnership with AXOOM, a software spin-off from German leading manufacturer TRUMPF, that will enable customers to perform industrial strength predictive maintenance on high volumes of data and interactions using streaming and predictive analytics. This helps manufacturers avoid unplanned downtime and ensure production lines operate at maximum capacity.

Wolfram Jost, chief technology officer, Software AG, said: "Sustaining high value equipment at maximum production capacity is one of the most important goals of any manufacturer. By integrating streaming and predictive analytics from our Digital Business Platform into the manufacturing process, it is possible to predict and execute preventative action before stoppages or problems occur to the production line."

The AXOOM digital business platform solution comprises a variety of off-the-shelf frameworks and pre-built modules that can connect to a wide variety of partner solutions via the AXOOM Apps Store and to IoT (Internet of Things) devices on critical production equipment. The vast amount of fast-moving data can be captured upstream in real-time by the Apama Streaming Analytics and Zementis Predictive Analytics modules within the Software AG Digital Business Platform. This enables manufacturers to monitor, make decisions, and trigger actions to ensure production lines are kept at maximum capacity.



Florian Weigmann, Managing Director, AXOOM, noted: "With the Software AG partnership, we see great opportunities that complement our existing, strong IoT solutions. We are very happy to provide our customers with extended analytics functionality from Software AG while providing manufacturing know-how and an industrial-strength digital business platform to Software AG."

The Software AG Digital Business Platform is an integrated set of powerful technologies, capabilities and methodologies for managing a digital transformation and for reshaping business designs that enable an enterprise to be more data-driven, customer-obsessed, hyper-connected and super-agile.


Wolfram Jost added: "By partnering with AXOOM, we provide manufacturers with significant value and a unique, end-to-end view of their manufacturing execution and ERP systems as well as new IoT services. Manufacturers can execute analytics in real-time across the complete analytics value chain (streaming, historical, and predictive) with relevant contextual and situational data that exposes critical information for timely outcomes."

The collaboration with AXOOM adds new IoT and Smart Enterprise services and capabilities for manufacturers across both company's platforms, namely:

  • Enhanced Integration-The Digital Business Platform adds powerful, field-hardened integration functionality to the AXOOM Industry 4.0 platform, which can connect to devices and any software systems (as e.g. ERP systems MES, resource management, supply chain, logistics etc.);
  • Advanced Analytics-The addition of Apama streaming and Zementis predictive analytics to the connected devices via AXOOM platform enables manufacturers to gain significant insights into their data;
  • Access to AXOOM Apps and Software AG Apps Store-AXOOM has many manufacturing specific solutions that are designed to support day-to-day manufacturing tasks and activities in an online store; equally, Software AG provides several partner apps through its Marketplace (e.g., predictive maintenance apps from Cap Gemini)

Wolfram Jost continued: "Our goal is to provide extended integration services, predictive analytics and a vast array of IoT solutions to manufacturers. AXOOM customers will be able to leverage all the analytics capabilities that Software AG offers through its Digital Business Platform. Conversely, our customers will be able to take full advantage of the AXOOM pre-built solutions for manufacturers."

About Software AG

The digital transformation is changing enterprise IT landscapes from inflexible application silos to modern software platform-driven IT architectures which deliver the openness, speed and agility needed to enable the digital real-time enterprise.

Software AG offers the first end-to-end Digital Business Platform, based on open standards, with integration, process management, in-memory data, adaptive application development, real-time analytics and enterprise architecture management as core building blocks. The modular platform allows users to develop the next generation of application systems to build their digital future, today.

With over 45 years of customer-centric innovation, Software AG is ranked as a leader in many innovative and digital technology categories. Software AG has more than 4,500 employees, is active in 70 countries and had revenues of €872 million in 2016.

Learn more at www.softwareag.com.

About AXOOM

The AXOOM digital business platform is designed for use along the entire production value chain. The objective is to create seamless connections between machinery, software and processes with users as the key element. Data can be securely transported into the cloud-based platform via vertical connections. AXOOM enables new business models and customized mass production - with AXOOM Smart Enterprise for manufacturing companies and AXOOM IoT for manufacturers of machines, components and sensors.

Learn more at www.axoom.com.

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