North America Adabas & Natural Virtual User Group | April 23
Did you miss the North America Adabas & Natural Virtual User Group Meeting? Now you can watch it on demand, learn from experts, and gain valuable insights to optimize and modernize their A&N environments.
Highlights include:
- Streamlining NaturalONE client rollouts for faster developer onboarding
- Product direction and practical modernization paths to unlock new business value
- AI-ready data integration and real-time access to mainframe data
- Operational guidance and support insights, including Adabas Manager/SMS managed volumes and license key
- Community/customer perspectives and shared learnings
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Agenda
Welcome
Chris Oskuie, Sales VP
Becky Albin, Senior Director, Principal Systems Engineer
NaturalONE Client Rollout with Ease
Dave Kelly, Principal Systems Engineer
Learn how to quickly deploy the NaturalONE client to developers using the deployment package technique. Install Software AG Designer and the NaturalONE perspective on client workstation in minutes —no Windows elevated rightsrequired—and manage the rollout easily with standard desktop software management tools.
AI-Ready Data Integration: From Data Silos to Intelligent Access
Demos Economacos, Principal Systems Engineer
Create a secure access and streaming layer that makes trusted mainframe data available to analytics platforms, AI models, and event-driven architectures like Kafka, enabling real-time insights without disrupting systems of record.
SEI ‘s Journey Modernizing Data Integration
Linda Lyng, SEI
Explore how SEI advanced its data integration approach, moving from ADABAS to relational platforms. This session walks through the evolution of its data extraction strategies, including key challenges encountered and lessons learned along the way. It also highlights SEI’s collaboration with SAGA and contributions to the ARF Replication Facility, before diving into how ARF is deployed across multiple clients today—offering practical insights into running reliable, scalable replication solutions in production environments.
Stay Connected: Get the Most from the Adabas & Natural Community
Renata Gober, Director, Software AG Marketing
Learn how staying connected can help you get more value from the Adabas & Natural Community. We’ll walk through our opt-in program and explain why subscribing to communications ensures you receive updates on upcoming events, product enhancements, roadmap insights, and valuable technical resources. You’ll also get a quick tour of our new website, including how to easily find product information, access resources, and discover upcoming events designed to support your success.
Unlocking New Business Value with Adabas & Natural
Eli Cohen, VP, Product Management A&N
Adabas & Natural systems are known for their performance, scalability, and reliability - but today’s enterprises demand more: faster innovation, seamless integration, and measurable business outcomes.
In this session, we will demonstrate how organizations can extend and modernize their Adabas & Natural environments across IBM Z, Linux, and Cloud platforms while introducing modern capabilities such as OpenAPI standards, DevOps integration, messaging-based integration, and AI tooling for Natural developers.
Adabas Manager and SMS managed volumes
Helen Kreztman, Principal Technical Support Engineer
Michael Dransfield, Principal Technical Support Engineer
Discover the process for increasing Mainframe Adabas container files in an SMS-managed environment, including key procedural steps and how the approach differs from increases in non-SMS environments. We will also provide a brief tour of new Adabas Manager features, including the monitoring dashboard to open systems and functionality that will eventually replace the Event Replicator Target Adapter Administration tool.