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Software Ag

“Can a legacy enterprise integration platform (webMethods, ARIS, Adabas) remain relevant to large enterprises as cloud-native iPaaS and API management competitors accelerate?”

Founded1969
HQDarmstadt, Germany
Latest roundAcquired by Silver Lake
IndustryHorizontal SaaS / Integration & IoT

The story

Software AG is a long-established German enterprise software vendor best known for its Adabas database, ARIS process modeling, and webMethods integration platform. Over decades it evolved from a database company into an enterprise integration, IoT, and API management platform provider. Its primary products today are integration and data management platforms sold to large enterprises globally, with no material embedded finance product line.

Last 12 months

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Product timeline

1969

Software AG founded in Darmstadt, Germany, originally focused on enterprise database software (Adabas).· pivot

2023

Silver Lake acquired Software AG, taking the company private.· acquisition

The stack

0 layers disclosed in Software Ag’s embedded-finance stack

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Where is Software Ag headquartered?

Software Ag is founded in 1969 and headquartered in Darmstadt, Germany.

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