AXWAY_REGISTRATION_DOCUMENT_2017

AXWAY GROUP AND ITS BUSINESS ACTIVITIES Strategy and activities

CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY

CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

2017 ANNUAL FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

CAPITAL AND AXWAY SOFTWARE STOCK

INFORMATIONS ADMINISTRATIVES ETbJURIDIQUES

COMBINED GENERAL MEETING OFb6bJUNEb2018

1.3.2 Axway vision and strategy: digital business enablement Our vision:

Security and compliance matter even more as ecosystems expand. The compliance pressure is not decreasing: it is the least we can say. It takes different forms: SLA compliance, legal compliance, regulatory compliance, security compliance. As business ecosystems evolve with completely new players enterprises were not used to dealing with before, security and compliance are raised as first-class priorities. Businesses have to find the right balance between openness and governance, between productivity and control. Axway has always been at the forefront of security and compliance, as we know this is the necessary condition for the adoption of digital innovation. New standards like PSD2 in finance and FHIR in Healthcare cannot be deployed without scrupulous attention to security and compliance. More regulations will arise, such as GDPR in Europe. The cloud has set the standard for IT. The cloud, as IT resources made available on demand in a self- service manner on a pay-per-use business model, is changing the rules of IT. Whether they use public cloud SaaS applications, or they deploy parts of their information systems on a private cloud that they build or buy from cloud infrastructure provider, businesses are moving to the cloud. The cloud changes expectations of IT. It also changes the experience expected from IT. IT must now be a self-service service, with a perceived infinite availability and capacity (zero downtime, elasticity), and fully automated behind the scenes: you must be available to provision as many instances of a service as you want, without any manual intervention. Digital transformation drives IT modernization. This transforms IT with new technology standards and industrialization processes, from development to operation. IT systems move towards so-called “microservices”, autonomous from development to operation, with a completely new approach when it comes to software production, referred to as “DevOps”. IT tends to move away frommonoliths, to create an architecture of services made available through system interfaces (application programming interfaces, “API”): hence the increasing need for API and microservice management. These smaller services are deployed as “containerized applications”, the same way the logistics industry has standardized on containers: new standards have arisen for the continuous integration, deployment and configuration of those application services. Our IT vision:

Axway unlocks digital experiences by connecting individuals, systems, businesses and customer ecosystems with digital infrastructure solutions. AMPLIFY™, Axway’s hybrid integration platform, connects data from any device anywhere, expands collaboration, fuels millions of apps and supplies real-time analytics to build customer experience networks. From idea to execution, Axway’s expertise in API management, secure file exchange and B2B/EDI integration have solved the most complex data challenges for more than 11,000Ǿorganizations in 100Ǿcountries. We enable an ecosystem-based economy, where people and businesses engage with each other through the connection and the integration of the systems they use, to deliver immersive customer experiences. Customer experience is now ecosystem centric. The experience of a consumer or a client is no longer limited to the touchpoints she has with an enterprise. She is now at the center of a network of interactions, mostly digital, with access to a vast amount of information about enterprise offers, as well as the ability to search and try products or services in advance, thereby becoming a much savvier buyer and user than in the past. That digital experience spans the whole customer journey and lifecycle, and can only be rendered if the enterprise unlocks its data and services not only directly to its customers, but also to the participants of its ecosystems. Our business vision:

Successful businesses are platform businesses.

Enterprises have developed the omni-channel approach to reach out to their customers and ecosystems: but the omni-channel approach is enterprise-centric, versus customer/ecosystem centric. The best way enterprises should multiply their reach is to enable the participants of their ecosystem to create value: they can do this if they transform their business into a platform business, by which they broker the access and the sharing of data and services from and to the participants of their ecosystems.

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