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Software AG 2010 Supply Chain Summit Delivers Real-World Insight Into Efficiency, Visibility, and Control

The latest capabilities to optimize supply chain performance will be a key focus of the Summit, offering practical and pragmatic approaches for continuous process improvement and enabling attendees to drive operational excellence in their organizations through the use of B2B, Business Activity Monitoring (BAM), and Business Process Management (BPM) technologies.

"Business and IT leaders are coming together from across industries to share insights and best practices in supply chain optimization," said Bruce Williams, Senior Vice President of Strategic Programs, Software AG. "It's in the opportunity to learn from organizations that have achieved real and measurable success where this event delivers real value."

Participants will walk away with best practices, such as how to achieve end-to-end visibility across the entire supply chain, discover critical bottlenecks, and identify new areas for improvement. This Summit is an opportunity to learn how to operate more efficiently on a real-time, informed basis; flag potential issues; and take immediate corrective action. By taking a proactive and proven approach, companies can gain control over their supply chain and make management by exception a reality.

"The lack of visibility into supply chains leads directly to decreased efficiencies, increased costs, and loss of competitive advantage," Williams said. "The participants in the Supply Chain Summit are targeting these challenges by sharing practical information, examples of successes, and take-away skills for supply-chain integration and optimization."

The keynote address "Finding the Big Payback in Your Supply Chain" by Allen Johnson, featured Research Director, Industrial & Consumer Value Chain at AMR Research Inc., will explore BAM as a crucial part of managing the supply chain. BAM technology enables companies to perform root cause analysis of deviant key performance indicators (KPIs) by pointing to events that are linked to KPIs and underlying processes that are represented in multi-tier dashboards for line, operational and C-level management. This provides the ability to drive large efficiency gains, which is the real reason to drive for visibility.

After the morning group sessions, the forum will break into two concurrent tracks. Representatives from the U.S. Navy, Aviall Services, TechStone Technology Partners, Quadrem, and Manhattan Associates, as well as BPM experts from Software AG and IDS Scheer will discuss how to identify and leverage supply chain metrics to drive financial and operational improvement, gaining visibility into KPIs and processes necessary for supply chain optimization, orchestrating accounts payable processing, ERP architecture integration, and supply chain managed services.

An agenda of the 2010 Supply Chain Summit and registration details are available at http://dallas.supplychainsummit2010.com/

About IDS Scheer

IDS Scheer is part of the Software AG Group and a leading provider of Business Process Management (BPM) software, solutions and services for corporations and public organizations worldwide. With the ARIS Platform for Process Excellence, the company offers an integrated, comprehensive solution portfolio for the strategy, design, implementation and controlling of business processes, allowing companies to continuously improve their overall business performance. Utilizing the ARIS Value Engineering (AVE) approach, IDS Scheer consultants bridge the gap between corporate strategy, business processes, IT solutions and process controlling. For IDS Scheer press information, please visit www.ids-scheer.com/us/press.

About Software AG

With more than 1,000 U.S.-enterprise customers and 800 employees, Software AG's U.S. operation contributes one third of the company's total revenue and is Software AG's largest market presence and R&D location. Software AG has operated nationwide in the U.S. since 1973 through a fully-owned subsidiary, Software AG USA Inc., which is headquartered in Reston, Virginia – also an R&D hub for the company's core data management and integration technologies. R&D labs for the development of Software AG's webMethods product suite – offering SOA integration and BPM solutions – include facilities in San Jose/Silicon Valley, Seattle and Denver. For more information, visit www.softwareag.com/us.

Software AG is the global leader in Business Process Excellence. Our 40 years of innovation include the invention of the first high-performance transactional database, Adabas; the first business process analysis platform, ARIS; and the first B2B server and SOA-based integration platform, webMethods. We are unique in offering the world's only end-to-end - and easiest to use - business process management (BPM) solutions, with the lowest Total-Cost-of-Ownership. Our industry-leading brands, ARIS, webMethods, Adabas, Natural and IDS Scheer Consulting, represent a unique portfolio for: process strategy, design, integration and control; SOA-based integration and data management; process-driven SAP implementation; and strategic process consulting and services.

Software AG had revenues of 847 million euro (IFRS, unaudited) in 2009 and has more than 6,000 employees serving 10,000 enterprise and public institution customers across 70 countries. Our comprehensive software and services solutions allow companies to continuously achieve their business results faster. The company is headquartered in Germany and listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (TecDAX, ISIN DE 0003304002 / SOW).

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