Media Coverage | Proginet - Secure Managed File Transfer for the Enterprise

Software AG Puts Extra B2B in Its SOA Platform with Proginet OEM Deal

Current Perspective: Positive
Vendor Importance: High
Market Impact: High

April 1, 2009 - Current Analysis has issued a comprehensive new report on Proginet’s OEM deal with Software AG. Software AG and Proginet Corporation have announced the availability of webMethods ActiveTransfer, a solution for managed file transfer available as part of the webMethods Suite.

• Current Perspective: Positive on Software AG for its agreement to OEM the Proginet CFI Internet Server for managed file transfer (MFT) and market it in conjunction with ESB, B2B and BPM offerings. Dubbed webMethods ActiveTransfer, the OEMed software product fits seamlessly into the Software AG service-oriented architecture (SOA) portfolio.

• Vendor Importance: High to Software AG, because its B2B footprint prior to this deal was limited to an EDI gateway. MFT represents a natural extension of the vendor’s distributed service delivery capabilities.

• Market Impact: High on the middleware and MFT markets, because Software AG does a very good job of selling new products into its existing customer bases.

• Competition: MFT competitors of Proginet should be looking to make similar go-to-market and OEM deals with SOA platform vendors such as Oracle, SAP, Microsoft, TIBCO, Progress and Red Hat.

• Takeaway: Hardware vendors should view the Software AG-Proginet OEM deal and IBM-Sterling partnership as evidence that the market is ripe for an SOA-centric MFT appliance.

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