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webMethods Inc., now Software AG
Type Product Line of Software AG
Founded webMethods founded 1996
Headquarters Reston, VA
Key people Karl-Heinz Streibich, CEO
David Broadbent
Mark Edwards
Dr. Peter Kuerpick
Arnd Zinnhardt
Ivo Totev
Industry Computer software
Products webMethods Business Process Mgmt
webMethods Business Activity Monitoring
webMethods SOA Governance
webMethods ESB & Integration
webMethods Application Modernization
(see company website)
Revenue Not applicable
Parent Software AG
Website www.SoftwareAG.com

webMethods, was founded in 1996 and is now the webMethods product suite, offered by Software AG which acquired the company in 2007 for $546 million. The webMethods suite is software for process improvement, SOA enablement, IT modernization and business and partner integration.

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  • 2009 A leader in the Forrester Wave for Enterprise Service Buses, Q1, 2009
  • 2008 A leader in the Forrester Wave for Integration-Centric BPM Suites, Q4 2008
  • 2008 Placed in the Gartner Leaders Quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for B2B Gateway Providers
  • 2008 Placed in the Gartner Leaders Quadrant for the Magic Quadrant for Application Infrastructure for SOA Composite Application Projects
  • 2008 Placed in the Gartner Leaders Quadrant for the Magic Quadrant for Application Infrastructure for Back-End Application Integration Projects
  • 2008 Placed in the Gartner Leaders Quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for Business Process

Management Suites BPM

  • 2008 Placed in the Gartner Leaders Quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for Integrated SOA Governance Technology Sets
  • 2007 webMethods products become the webMethods product suite of Software AG.
  • 2007 June 1 - Closing of the acquisition by Software AG.
  • 2007 April 5 - Software AG to acquire webMethods.
  • 2007 Fabric 7 released
  • 2003 Added JBoss to the product suite as a bundled solution for EJB support and released webMethods Portal
  • 2001 First Integration vendor to add EDI support and business process modelling to their platform.
  • 1999 Partnership with SAP to provide integration capabilities for SAP as OEM Product SAP Business Connector
  • 1998 partnership with Microsoft to develop XQL[1]
  • 1996 Company founded by Phillip Merrick[2]

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  • 2006 Acquired Infravio[3] and products from Cerebra[4]
  • 2003 Acquires The Mind Electric - Products: webMethods ServiceNet (SOA)
  • 2003 Acquires Dante Group - Products: webMethods BAM
  • 2003 Acquires former DataChannel assets from Netegrity[5] - Products: webMethods Portal
  • 2001 Acquired IntelliFrame [6] Products:webmethods Workflow
  • 2000 Acquired Active Software [7] and partnership with J. D. Edwards for OEM Product JDE XPI. Gets EAI/A2A capabilities, Products: webMethods Broker and Adapters
    • Active Software acquired Alier Inc., TransLink Software Inc. and Premier Software Technologies Inc.

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