Tuesday, 13 May 2008

T Mobile & Software AG Enter SOA Partnership

T-Mobile has teamed up with German business software maker Software AG to build a competence center, in a move aimed to accelerate the go-to-market time of its new mobile products.

The center, which will be hosted in Bonn and Darmstadt, will be tasked with developing T Mobile’s Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) and business process management (BPM) SOA/BPM strategy and moving the IT infrastructure forward using SOA/BPM process models.

According to T Mobile, its goals in undertaking this joint development is to launch new mobile communication products more quickly while increasing efficiency and lowering costs. Specifically, these goals will be reached through the use of the webMethods BPM Suite utilizing T-Mobile’s existing international SOA platform.

T Mobile’s own innovative tool for SOA governance will be converted to a CentraSite-supported solution for SOA and BPM via evolution and innovation phases, which allows the strengths of CentraSite to benefit T Mobile while T Mobile’s innovative SOA concepts are incorporated into the product.

This center will include IT architects and research and development employees from both companies who will work closely together on the implementation of the SOA/BPM strategy.

The agreement covers Germany, the Netherlands, Austria, the UK, and the Czech Republic.