Press Release
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New Beta 4Agility Suite enables fast, secure business process optimization
- Four new Beta Agilizer products accelerate IT reactivity to complex challenges and increase IT performance
Berlin, Germany. 6 August 2007 – Beta Systems Software AG announced today that it
has initi-ated a new product and sales strategy called Beta 4Agility with the theme of ‘more
agility for large enterprises and providers of IT and financial services’. The Berlin-based
software pro-vider is launching the Beta 4Agility Suite to enable customers to react fast when new
and complex IT demands arise, resulting in increased productivity and growth. The suite com-prises
four integration products based on Beta Systems’ traditional core businesses: docu-ment management,
IT user management, data processing within data centers, and compliance solutions. The business
process-oriented products interconnect applications and systems and deliver standard functions via
web services. They will be launched in phases between fall 2007 and mid-2008 under the brand names
Beta Agilizer 4 Document Processing, Beta Agilizer 4 Security, Beta Agilizer 4 Data Processing, and
Beta Agilizer 4 Compliance.
Large companies and providers of IT and financial services are continually faced with new
challenges, which their IT environment needs to be able to cope with despite the ongoing pressure
on costs. Among the causes of this situation are mergers, acquisitions, continuous consolidation,
and changes to business processes, systems and organizations - along with a massive increase in
legal require-ments. Existing legacy and mainframe systems need to be connected quickly and
flexibly to the newer enterprise IT, to drive a rapid and sustainable increase in productivity and
ensure that growth oppor-tunities can be acted on quickly and efficiently. The four new Beta
Agilizer products embody the prin-ciple of fast integration into today’s IT architectures.
The Beta Agilizer products are based on Beta Systems’ existing solutions and core
competencies. Using special connector technologies, they integrate Beta Systems’ own solutions as
well as third-party systems, applications, and data. The integration can be within an IT
application, as well as across different areas – spanning document management, user management, and
compliance solu-tions.
“Our new offering will be successful because so many companies are on the lookout for
integration solutions that link existing applications, documents and processes,” explains Kamyar
Niroumand, CEO of Beta Systems Software AG. “This is the only way to ensure IT flexibility and the
high level of agility needed to adapt to constantly-changing business conditions.”
The launch of the Beta 4Agility Suite is the centerpiece of the 4Agility program for growth
and com-pletes Beta Systems Software AG’s reorientation, following the consolidation undertaken
over the last few years. It is underpinned by the strengths proven many times over by Beta Systems
during more than 25 years in the IT market – innovative strength and customer proximity.
In the first half-year of 2007, Beta Systems Software AG reached turnaround, thus delivering
proof of the effectiveness of its new strategy. The Berlin-based software provider had already
improved its re-sult considerably by the end of the first half-year, raising it from € -19.0 to €
0.2 million. This is the first positive EBIT for a half-year since the company’s IPO. This positive
trend was attributable to the growth of around 14% in the profitable license business and of almost
30% in the services segment, as well the optimization of the cost structure.
Overview of Each Product
Beta Agilizer 4 Document Processing makes documents available in a business process
oriented context. As they are electronically archived, they can be searched and retrieved quickly
and easily, regardless of which archiving system they are stored in. The Agilizer integrates a
range of different archiving solutions and delivers the documents to the user via web services and
other user- and busi-ness process-oriented interfaces.
Beta Agilizer 4 Security enables different identity management solutions and
access control systems to be interconnected. As a result, user administration can be managed
centrally with one integrated product. With the Agilizer, identity management and certain IT
security functions can be integrated into additional applications using various client connectors
and web services.
Beta Agilizer 4 Data Processing is an integration platform for a broad range of
products and tools for data center automation. Companies can use the Beta Agilizer 4 Data
Processing to centrally activate scheduling, workload management, and other key administration
tasks across several different solu-tions.
With
Beta Agilizer 4 Compliance, company-specific compliance requirements can be
fulfilled auto-matically and centrally. The Agilizer manages them using an implemented set of
policies and rules. This leads to improved and simplified control cycles, which start by monitoring
regulations and end with the preventive discovery of risks and vulnerabilities within the existing
compliance structure. The first version of the Beta Agilizer 4 Compliance will be available in
autumn 2007.
End of the press release
Beta Systems Software AG – Agility Integrated
Beta Systems Software AG Berlin (Prime Standard: BSS, ISIN DE0005224406) develops
high-profile software products and solutions for the secure and efficient processing of large data
volumes. The core businesses of Beta Systems comprise document processing as well as IT user
management data processing in data centers and compliance solutions. In addition, the Beta 4Agility
suite offers large companies new integration products to enhance their agility in IT and business
processes. The products serve to simplify the automation of data and document processing and
improve on the secu-rity and performance of IT.
Beta Systems, which has been a listed company since 1997, was founded in 1983 and has a
work-force of more than 600 employees. The company’s principal place of business is Berlin. Beta
Systems has Centers of Competence in Augsburg, Cologne and Calgary, as well as 17 subsidiaries
worldwide and cooperations with numerous partner companies. With more than 3,000 running
installations, it has a customer base of more than 1,300 major companies from the sectors of
financial services and IT service providers and industry at large in Germany, Europe and the USA.
More information on the company and its products can be found under
www.betasystems.com.
Press Contacts
Corporate:
Beta Systems Software AG
Thomas grosse Osterhues
Senior Manager Marketing Communications
Tel.: +49 (0)30 726 118-570
Fax: +49 (0)30 726 118-881
Email:
thomas.osterhues@betasystems.com
Agency:
HBI PR&MarCom GmbH
Alexandra Osmani, Anja Woithe
Tel.: +49 (0)89 99 38 87-0
Fax: +49 (0)89 930 24 45
E-Mail:
alexandra_osmani@hbi.de;
alexandra_janetzko@hbi.de
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