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Free IT Health Check
Optimize your investment in Adabas & Natural
Overview
You take your car in for a 30,000-mile check-up. We think your IT systems deserve the same care! It’s easy—and free—with an IT Health Check from Software AG. During your complimentary IT Health Check, a team of chief architects for Adabas and Natural will spend one to two days with your team to assess your IT environment and identify opportunities to achieve greater performance, cost efficiencies, productivity and accessibility to meet your organization's goals.
Together, we’ll take a deep dive into your operating system utilization, response time, availability, software products and current satisfaction by:
- Reviewing existing systems and IT tools
- Evaluating the state of existing databases and technical infrastructure
- Checking the Natural environment, infrastructure and optimization options
- Exploring key issues, pain points and desired enhancements
- Interviewing your IT community, business users and key stakeholders
When the technical experts arrived, they hit the ground running. They knew exactly what they wanted. The end result was a very detailed report that gave us a dozen or so recommendations on performance improvements we could make—for example, tuning tips to us help get applications to run faster.”
The benefits of an IT Health Check
To add value to your organization through the IT Health Check process, we will:
- Explore key issues and desired enhancements
- Increase knowledge of your core systems and usage of Software AG technology
- Uncover how to optimize system performance and improve customer service
- Identify how to reduce system costs, system load and maintenance
- Share ways to increase developer productivity
- Pinpoint key application, information, infrastructure and personnel needs
- Provide an action plan that recommends next steps and prioritizes areas for improvement
The process
An IT Health Check requires a commitment by your team and a sponsor, who can arrange for meetings with key people within your organization. We will meet with:
- Executives to learn about your organizational challenges
- Finance to understand how IT initiatives are measured
- Business users to learn about key processes
- Technical users to explore underlying applications and systems
We conduct an evaluation of the following areas as agreed upon within the scope of engagement:
- Performance and tuning
- Database management
- Database and application security
- Application development environments
- Data warehouse operations
- Personnel support
- Time to implement new business functions
- Time spent on application maintenance
- Integration points
- Modernization needs
- Underutilized Adabas & Natural features
The result
At the completion of your IT Health Check, you’ll receive a comprehensive diagnostic report that covers Software AG's understanding of:
- Your business drivers & challenges
- Critical success factors
- Existing systems and software products
- Systems relevant to key initiatives
A functional review of each application and/or database that includes:
- An overview of the application(s)
- Application usability, including missing functionality and accessibility
- Data accessibility, such as end-user access and synchronization with other systems
- Database performance review
- Technical infrastructure overview
- Personnel training recommendations
The IT Health Check Diagnostic Report concludes with an action plan that prescribes how to optimize your investments in Adabas and Natural to meet your objectives. We provide this service at absolutely no cost because we value your business and know that environment optimization leads to better performance (and better performance leads to a happier you).
