Axway Software is a French-American

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company that provides software tools for

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and web

API management API management is the process of creating and publishing web application programming interfaces (APIs), enforcing their usage policies, controlling access, nurturing the subscriber community, collecting and analyzing usage statistics, and reporti ...

. Since it split from parent company

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in June 2011, Axway has been listed on

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(AXW).

History

Axway Software was incorporated on 28 December 2000 when the software infrastructure division of the French IT services company Sopra was spun-out as a subsidiary. (Sopra subsequently merged with another French IT services company Steria to form

in 2014.) Sopra used Axway as a vehicle for expansion into the

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market. Subsequently, a number of acquisitions have been made by Axway. The Swedish company Viewlocity was acquired in early 2002.

Christophe Fabre Axway Software is a French-American publicly held information technology company that provides software tools for enterprise software, enterprise application integration, business activity monitoring, business analytics, mobile application dev ...

became CEO of Axway in 2005 and remained in that position until 2015. Axway acquired the US company Cyclone Commerce in January 2006 after which much of the executive management of Axway relocated to Phoenix, Arizona. In February 2007, Axway acquired the

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's B2B software business in Germany. US company

Tumbleweed Communications Tumbleweed Communications Corp. provided secure messaging and secure file transfer solutions for enterprise and government customers. Tumbleweed Communications merged with Axway in 2008. Tumbleweed products were used to block security threats, p ...

was acquired in June 2008. In June 2011, Axway was spun out of Sopra Group and listed on the Paris Euronext. In November 2012, the Irish company Vordel, an API Management vendor, was acquired. The Brazilian company, SCI Soluções, was acquired in September 2013. In January 2014, Axway acquired the assets of Information Gateway in Australia. Axway acquired French company Systar, a developer of Business Activity Monitoring software, in June 2014. In January 2016, Axway acquired US company

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, creator of the

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open-source framework for multiplatform native mobile app development. Axway acquired US company

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, developer of a file share and synchronization service, in February 2017. As of 2017, Sopra Steria holds 33.52% of Axway and Sopra GMT, a holding company for Sopra Steria and Axway, holds 21.65%. In May 2016, Sopra Steria acquired the 8.62% stake in Axway formerly held by

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. Axway is a component of the

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. In 2016, Axway had more than 11,000 customers in 100 countries. Since going public in 2011, annual revenues have grown from €217.2 million in 2011 to €301.1 million in 2016, and profits have grown from €35.3 million in 2011 to €50.8 million in 2016.

Products and services

As of 2017, Axway's main products are: * The AMPLIFY platform, which acts as a data integration platform for a number of formerly independent legacy products, including

. It provides a more uniform

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to the various components. *

Cross File Transfer CFT (Cross File Transfer) (product name: ''Axway Transfer CFT'') is a secure computer file transfer program and protocol from Axway Inc, used extensively in Finance and banking industries in Europe, by companies like AG2R La Mondiale and Swiss Po ...

Innovation

Axway has been rated in

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as a leader in API management for several years.

Company locations

Axway is headquartered in

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and

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. The company has development centers in France in

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and Paris, in Romania in

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, in Bulgaria in

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and in the United States in

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and

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. It also has various support centers, including one in

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, India. The acquisition of SCI in 2013 lead to the establishment of the Axway South America regional headquarters in

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, Brazil.

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External links

Axway Software corporate site
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