Task: Question Answering
Input (English): Context: webMethods was an enterprise software company, acquired by Software AG, focused on application integration, business process integration and B2B partner integration. Founded in 1996, the company sold systems for organizations to use web services to connect software applications over the Internet. In 2000, the company went public on the NASDAQ in the most successful software IPO to date, based on investor interest and first day share price appreciation. In 2002, the company was named by Deloitte as the fastest-growing software company in North America over the period 1998 to 2002. In 2007 webMethods was acquired by Software AG for $546 million and was made a subsidiary of that company. In 2010 the webMethods division of Software AG recorded over $668 million in revenues. Software AG retained the webMethods name, and uses it as a brand to identify a software suite encompassing process improvement, SOA enablement, IT modernization and business and partner integration., Founded in 1969, Software AG is an enterprise software company with over 10,000 enterprise customers in over 70 countries. The company is the second largest software vendor in Germany, the seventh largest in Europe and among the top 25 globally. Software AG is traded on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange under the symbol SOW and part of the technology index TecDAX., webMethods Integration Server is one of the core application servers in the webMethods platform . It is a Java - based , multiplatform enterprise integration server . It supports the integration of diverse services , such as mapping data between formats and communication between systems . An integration server may also be known as the core of webMethods Enterprise Service Bus . The Integration Server supports Java , C / C++ programming languages for writing services as well as a proprietary graphical language known as flow . It also supports graphical configuration of 3rd party system operations via the concept of `` Adapter services '' . The Integration Server exposes its administration , configuration and auditing facilities to the user via an HTML web interface ., Subject: webmethods integration server, Relation: developer, Options: (A) software ag (B) webmethods
Output (English): software ag