Prós
Gartner and Forester backing as a market leader Product portfolio is broad from Middleware to in-memory data management to business process automation Constantly meeting new people as they churn through employees
Contras
If you like compliance work then this is the place for you. No marketing to speak of with a very weak presence in social media - whats Facebook?. Not quick to move with virtually no cloud strategy If you find someone in IT who knows the Software AG name then expect that they have been audited unfavorably or they are just about to retire. Quarterly driven so if you're buying off them wait until the end of the quarter and receive exceptional discounts. Focus is solely on license and product sales, not on successfully delivered solutions. Bad reputation in the market. Old school solutions, falling behind the competition. Unrealistic targets so don't expect to reach them and by the way its your fault for the inability to make target. No consultants to speak of wants to work with them so don't expect partner sales The office politics in Australia is a joke with leaderless quarterly driven approach. If you do take the job it will stifle the most energetic sales person. From another contributor but very relevant Micro-management in sales includes how many calls, emails, meeting, net new clients and partner visits per week!. Senior executives inspect and offer the same advice on closing any deal... "offer them a lower price" Channel Partner practice is a complete an utter joke! Again inferior middle management and plethora of middle management executives hired from within who don't understand selling through the channel and bring the same toxic work environment to new initiatives. Outlook - Long term plans for sales are non existent, 73% admitted churn, how lucky are you? Take a look on business social networking sites, you won't find any SAG sales employees that have been there more then 2 years