Software AG has expanded the capabilities of its Cumulocity IoT platform by enabling its WebMethods’ Dynamic Apps low-code app development platform to be used for development of apps running on Cumulocity.
Software AG says Cumulocity IoT already gives customers “a low-code, open, device-agnostic platform that supports more than 150 pre-integrated devices, and ensures that secure connectivity and management of any ‘thing’ can be achieved quickly and easily.”
And with WebMethods Dynamic Apps (Agile Edition), it says “business users get a low-code app creation platform with visual design tools that include: drag and drop modellers, point and click interface creation, process modellers and business rules.”
Software AG says Dynamic Apps customers will be able to “visually configure and use Cumulocity IoT data sources in their low-code apps, thus allowing them to run operational processes across their company.
“The information generated from these apps then enables the business user to make smarter business decisions based on ’actionable events,’ which could improve customer support and enhance service levels with their connected ‘things’.”
Software AG brought Cumulocity to Australia in February 2018 following release of the latest edition. Vice president Australia & New Zealand, Brenton Smith, told the author at the time the company had established a sales team focussed on selling Cumulocity to large businesses.
Software AG has global OEM agreements for Cumulocity with Bosch and Siemens and, locally, with Telstra and the local arm of global engineering firm WSP Digital.
In a note posted on its web site in late 2016 Telstra said it had chosen to partner with Cumulocity because it was an “award winning IoT platform provider (Frost and Sullivan) that has been rated as the most open and developer friendly (MachNation) across many players in the IoT platform market.”
Earlier this year Cumulocity was ranked one of the top 15 IoT platformsby Forrester and in Q3 of 2017 Forrester ranked Dynamic Apps as a leader in its the Forrester Wave for Digital Process Automation Software.
Cumulocity originated as a spinoff from the, now defunct, Nokia Siemens joint venture in 2010 and was acquired by Software AG in 2016. Software AG acquired Webmethods in 2007.
