Software AG and T‑Mobile Sign Global SOA

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T‑Mobile International is developing its IT-Governance methodology and tools in conjunction with Software AG. One of the goals of this venture is to accelerate the introduction of new products and tariffs on the basis of Software AG's technologies for Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) and business process management (BPM). The agreement was concluded with T‑Mobile International and covers the UK and the Netherlands, Austria, the Germany, and the Czech Republic.

The two companies are building a joint competence centre to handle this international collaboration. The competence centre is tasked with further developing T‑Mobile's SOA/BPM strategy and moving the IT infrastructure forward using SOA/BPM process models. Software AG was awarded the partnership in an international call for bids.

T‑Mobile's goals in deploying an SOA strategy is to launch new mobile communication products more quickly while increasing efficiency and lowering costs. Specifically, these goals will be reached through the use of the webMethods BPM Suite utilising T-Mobile's existing international SOA platform. T‑Mobile's own tool for SOA governance will be converted to a CentraSite-supported solution for SOA and BPM via evolution and innovation phases, which allows the strengths of CentraSite to benefit T‑Mobile while T‑Mobile's innovative SOA concepts are incorporated into the product.

In this industry, SOA and BPM provide crucial competitive advantages in that they accelerate the market-readiness of new products. The industry is characterised by a high degree of complexity and large amounts of data: there are millions of customers in Germany alone, as well as many different tariffs and products, to which new products are constantly being added.

An important component of the agreement is the establishment of a joint competence centre in Bonn and Darmstadt. This centre will include IT architects and leading research and development employees from both companies who will work closely together on the implementation of the SOA/BPM strategy.

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