Adventier’s partner Virtual Forge was recently named “Cool Vendor 2011″ in the SAP ecosystem by Gartner. They received the award for CodeProfiler, an innovative ABAP scanner that detects compliance and security vulnerabilities.
Adventier has been proud to be a value-added reseller for CodeProfiler in North America since 2008. We led the first US implementation of CodeProfiler. Since then, Adventier has implemented the tool for a number of large US SAP customers, many of them Fortune 500s.
Whether it’s to remain compliant, to reduce risk, or to create efficiencies, customers have found CodeProfiler an invaluable tool for governing SAP development.
Read the press release below:
Gartner identified Virtual Forge as Cool Vendor in the SAP ecosystem
Heidelberg-based Virtual Forge GmbH was named “Cool Vendor 2011“ in the SAP ecosystem. This title is awarded annually by Gartner, the leading international information technology analysts. For Gartner, a “Cool Vendor“ is a company with products or services regarded as innovative, impressive, and groundbreaking. “SAP Security was always an important topic”, said Dr. Markus Schumacher, CEO of Virtual Forge. “For us it’s a confirmation that SAP Security is a must-have for every customer and that we have the right solution in the market.”
Virtual Forge received the award for its SAP solution CodeProfiler. The tool analyzes ABAP code and automatically detects security and compliance vulnerabilities. In its current report “Cool Vendors in the SAP Ecosystem, 2011”, Gartner states that this tool gives ABAP developers full control over their code now [1]. Every year, Gartner analyzes new products and services for unsolved challenges which are fit for use in the business world. The results of this research go into their so-called “Cool Vendor” report. In this report, Gartner doesn’t claim to list all vendors in a certain technology area. Instead, the report focuses on introducing new, interesting, and innovative vendors with their products and services. “Being Cool Vendor is like an acknowledgement for many years of research that our team has invested in the field of SAP Security”, said Andreas Wiegenstein, who is CTO of Virtual Forge and responsible for research and development.
About CodeProfiler
Virtual Forge CodeProfiler quickly and easily discovers security vulnerabilities, back doors, performance bottlenecks, as well as maintainability problems in ABAP code as well as third-party programs and add-ons. It automatically detects and prioritizes these problems, ensuring effective issue handling. Integration of CodeProfiler into the ABAP development process (TMS/ChaRM and approval workflows) guarantees enforcement of your requirements and compliance on the process level.
Virtual Forge’s solution portfolio contains guidelines for secure ABAP programming, CodeProfiler, TMS/ChaRM integration as well as trend analyses in SAP BI/BO. Customized consulting packages ensure a successful implementation. SAP AG itself has recently chosen CodeProfiler for internal use.
About Gartner’s Cool Vendors Selection Process
Gartner’s listing does not constitute an exhaustive list of vendors in any given technology area, but rather is designed to highlight interesting, new and innovative vendors, products and services. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness of a particular purpose.
Gartner defines a cool vendor as a company that offers technologies or solutions that are: Innovative, enable users to do things they couldn’t do before; Impactful, have, or will have, business impact (not just technology for the sake of technology); Intriguing, have caught Gartner’s interest or curiosity in approximately the past six months.
References
[1] Gartner, Inc. “Cool Vendors in the SAP Ecosystem, 2011” by Thomas Otter, Thomas E. Murphy, Christian Hestermann, Jeff Woods, John Hagerty, Tim Payne, Nigel Montgomery, 15 April 2011.
