Software AG's Advanced Governance Initiative Maximizes the Business Benefits of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA).

* Effective SOA Governance Provides the Foundation for Improved Alignment of IT Initiatives with Business Strategy, Allowing IT to More Effectively Respond to Business Needs

* Software AG Provides Sophisticated SOA Governance Capabilities Including Automated Policy Management

DARMSTADT, Germany -- Software AG today announced the Active Governance Framework to help organizations fully realize the business benefits of a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and better manage and control their SOA initiatives. The Active Governance Framework provides transparency on how the IT infrastructure supports business operations. Any changes to business-relevant guidelines, such as policies or service level agreements, can be immediately assessed at the IT level, enabling better communication between business and IT. At the heart of the Active Governance Framework is CentraSite, a leading SOA Registry and Repository co-developed by Software AG and Fujitsu. CentraSite has been enhanced with advanced capabilities that provide centralized, standardized and automated business policy management. Through the automation of SOA policy management, CentraSite is the foundation for compliance management and allows organizations to manage the entire SOA lifecycle. This highlights Software AG's commitment to supporting business and enabling maximum reuse of IT assets, cost-effectively and with minimal risk.

"Governance of SOA assets is an emerging and important challenge," said Frank Kenney, Research Director at Gartner. "Organizations that are pursuing SOA need to pursue governance as well."

The cornerstone of the Active Governance Framework is a new policy editor plug-in for CentraSite allowing effective central policy management and control. Users, for example, are proactively alerted of attempted policy changes incompatible with other business policies. This active, automated approach to governance ensures that organizations can reap the true benefits of SOA: faster development, better managed SLAs, and improved change management.

Magnus Clarving, Manager Corporate Agent Systems at SAS Scandinavian Airlines IT said "Without CentraSite we would have to increase staff in order to deal with the change management of our SOA system."

Policy management and enforcement are two sides of the same coin. Organizations often have heterogeneous infrastructures in place, enforcing policies targeting runtime, design-time, security or SLA aspects. The Active Governance Framework supports all common policy enforcement products and infrastructures through a flexible adapter framework, including ready-to-use adapters. These adapters transform policies to the required format and deploy them to the target system, such as AmberPoint for Runtime Governance, Vordel for SOA security or popular ESBs such as Software AG's crossvision Service Orchestrator.

The Active Governance Framework also provides sophisticated federation through automated notifications for policy or lifecycle changes and compliancy-relevant information based on open standards, such as UDDI v3. This standards-based federation mechanism synchronizes policies and other SOA-relevant metadata and enriches the integration capabilities for CentraSite Community partners. The CentraSite Community brings over 25 partners together to help organizations successfully design, implement, manage, govern and optimize a complete SOA ecosystem. For more information see www.soaworks.com.

"Software AG continues to provide innovation for our customers," said Dr. Peter Kuerpick, Member of the Executive Management Board at Software AG and responsible for crossvision. "Our customers are managing some of the most advanced SOA environments in the world with thousands of services. By providing them with the Active Governance Framework, we help them remain ahead of their competition."

The planned availability of the Active Governance Framework is the second quarter 2007.

Software AG offers an extensive range of products and services relating to IT infrastructures for Service-Oriented Architectures (SOAs) and is backed by 35 years of experience with high-performance databases, application development tools, and integration technologies. Software AG's technology facilitates process-driven integration through the modernization of legacy systems and permits a uniform view of strategic business information in real time. Software AG helps its customers achieve a competitive advantage by creating the conditions for flexible and adaptable business processes through the rapid and simple integration of existing IT systems. More than 3,000 customers around the world count on Software AG for their business critical systems. The company is present in 70 countries with more than 2,600 employees. Software AG is based in Darmstadt, Germany, and is listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (TecDAX, ISIN DE 0003304002 / SOW). Software AG posted total revenues of [euro]483 million (unaudited) in 2006. www.softwareag.com.