Software AG operates across various industry verticals, such\nas government, banking and oil and gas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At this year\u2019s GITEX it exhibited under the theme of \u2018Experience\nYour Smart Connected World\u2019 highlighting the enormous potential of Digital Transformation\nin the coming decade. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In line with the Smart Dubai 2021 vision, Software AG has formed a strategic\npartnership with Smart Dubai.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The partnership is leveraging innovation\ntechnology to launch a multi-function iPaaS webMethods (Integration Platform as a\nService) technology powered platform. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The new offering\nwill interconnect Dubai wide government entities and key private sector systems\nand processes to deliver the city\u2019s commitment\nto boost the UAE\u2019s economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Here Rami Kichli,\nVice-President, Gulf and Levant at Software AG, tells us more about the\ncompany\u2019s activities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Can you tell us about your project with Smart Dubai?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n We’ve been engaged with Smart Dubai for a period of around 18 months now. Earlier this year\nwe officially went into a couple of projects with them, one of which was\nunveiled at GITEX at the Smart Dubai booth. Working with our partner Palmira,\nthis project will have a serious impact on the look of the IT landscape in Dubai. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In terms\nof Software AG what have you got planned for the next 12 months?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n By the end of 2019, we should have\njust marked our fifth consecutive year of double-digit growth in the region. So that’s the kind of mode we are in\nas an organisation. There are many reasons for the growth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n We look at continuing this momentum. We see tremendous\ndemand for what we do and we expect to continue this into 2020 and beyond that.\nGITEX was a big driving force in terms of pipeline, in terms of acceleration of\nwhat we’re doing with many customers. So we are very\nupbeat about 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2020 is the year of the expo so that’s also an interesting\nangle from the perspective of a technology multinational such as ourselves.\nAnother thing happening in 2020 is we’re expanding our offices. So, we continue\nto invest in hiring and expanding our offices. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This is a private place where we can showcase things in the\nprivacy of our own office to customers and partners alike. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Can you tell us anything about your involvement in the\nExpo 2020 exhibition?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n We are in discussions at the moment with the German\nPavilion. Germany is, if I remember correctly, in the top three of the global\nparticipants in Expo 2020. We are very well connected within the German\nbusiness community here and supported in a big way, also from the German Council\nand the German Embassy in the UAE. <\/p>\n\n\n\n We proactively and actively engage with them in looking at\nfostering the collaboration between Germany and the UAE. At the moment, Germany\nis working on the final touches of its pavilion for Expo 2020. We are involved\nin these discussions and that will form part of our participation in Expo 2020.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n One of the things I mentioned is around continuous growth.\nThe overall technology spend in the region is not growing as much as\npreviously. We believe it\u2019s growing between the three to five percentage mark\nyear on year – at present we are growing at a much faster pace than that. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Are there any new major products that you’ve introduced\nto the market?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The nature of IT budgets is\nchanging, year on year we see that very clearly. What does that mean? We\nsee a lot of the traditional IT spend being shifted into spend that’s more\nassociated with innovation with transformation, with digitalisation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Infrastructure spend or spend on applications into these new\nareas have been coming to the forefront in the past five years and this is\nexactly the area we play in. <\/p>\n\n\n\n So it’s this dynamic of shifting IT budgets, which is\nactually driving our business forward and naturally in order to do that we\ncontinue to innovate on where we started from. Where we started from was what\nwe call the world’s first digital business platform over a decade ago. So we\nunveiled to the world what was at that time a very cutting edge topic with the\nworld’s first digital business platform. <\/p>\n\n\n\n That was the starting point and not the endpoint. There have\nbeen a lot of innovations in expanding the platform innovating deep and wide\nwithin that same platform but in essence, what we do is still the same. We help\norganisations transform themselves by adopting a technology-based platform. We\nhelp them make more value of the data because that comes part and parcel with\nadopting such a platform. <\/p>\n\n\n\n We have also\nlaunched Alfabet which is our business and technology transformation platform.\nWe have launched an Alfabet accelerator globally. The Alfabet accelerator\nallows organisations to adopt a powerful technology service in a matter of days\nand weeks, rather than months and years as ithas been the case because it is\nbuilt with Artificial Intelligence with wizard based technology that allows\norganisations through a series of answering questions to actually build the\nmodel that they need to use Alfabet. This is a major innovation from a product perspective.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n We have also launched\ntwo cloud solutions. One is the Alfabet FastLane which is our IT\nportfolio management in the cloud environment and the other one is the\nwebMethods.io integration to connect your SaaS applications. Alfabet\nFastLane allows organisations to generate dashboards and reports quickly\neven in the most complex IT architectures without configuration and\nimplementation time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Also over the\npast 12 months we’ve globally announced a series of major partnerships, and\nI’ll mention three of them. We’ve announced a partnership with Microsoft which\nwill help all Microsoft customers around the world to migrate to cloud on the\nbenefits of Microsoft Azure. That’s a very big and hopefully impactful\npartnership. We’ve also announced a partnership with Adobe and a partnership\naround using IoT on the Edge with Dell EMC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Software AG operates across various industry verticals, such as government, banking and oil and gas. 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