DATASHEET

Adabas & Natural 2050+ Executive Summary

Strategic modernization for mission-critical applications

Overview
Striking a balance between supporting business innovations and cutting costs is a major challenge for CIOs. How can you take advantage of the latest tech innovations despite cost pressures and a retiring workforce? Can mission-critical applications, built on Adabas & Natural, play a role in the future? Moreover, how can CIOs leverage their greatest long-term investment to play a more central role in the business?
The Adabas & Natural 2050+ Agenda

You can prepare these applications and the surrounding ecosystem to be future ready and easily adapt to change with Software AG. The Adabas & Natural 2050+ initiative will help you:

  • Transform your application infrastructure to align with your IT strategy
  • Optimize your IT operations to save costs and excel at performance
  • Modernize the developer experience and connect with the newest technologies

It also prepares you to attract, train and retain new talent more easily, making the generational change in skills one less thing for you to worry about.

 Figure 1: The Adabas & Natural 2050+ Initiative
Transform

Take advantage of the flexible infrastructure supported by Adabas & Natural to run your applications on IBM Z®, Linux® and the cloud. As your IT strategy evolves to meet the opportunities new technologies and business models bring, you can easily transfer the differentiated business logic and high-value data of your Adabas & Natural applications to the platform of your choosing.

  • Align with your IT platform strategy without sacrificing performance.
  • Use hybrid cloud to integrate the best of cloud and traditional IT environments.
  • Rearchitect as a cloud native application using microservices and containers.
Optimize

Your Adabas & Natural applications are mission-critical, so downtime is unacceptable. Exceptional speed and responsiveness are expected. And with core applications interconnected more than ever, data security and protection from bad actors are a must. At the same time, costs need to be manageable as workload demands grow. Innovative new products for Adabas & Natural 2050+ offer multiple ways to achieve operational excellence in performance, scalability, security, availability and resiliency while reducing operational IT effort and costs on IBM Z, Linux and cloud.

  • Ensure application availability & responsiveness on any platform, even in case of hardware or software failures, network outages or other disruptions.
  • Protect your data from bad actors, inside & out, as well as from unexpected downtime & disruption.
  • Reduce total cost of ownership with scalable workloads.
Modernize

Modernize the Adabas & Natural application user and developer experience with a robust development environment (NaturalONE) that lets you create modern user interfaces and adopt the latest DevOps tools and agile development practices. A comprehensive set of data access and replication capabilities lets you quickly connect your high-value data to AI, analytics, the cloud and other modern technologies. This allows you to accelerate innovation by building on what works.

  • Adopt agile development practices and DevOps tools to increase business responsiveness and application quality.
  • Create rich internet applications and web interfaces to modernize the user experience.
  • Share Adabas data with AI, analytics, the cloud and modern apps to support anywhere engagement.
Figure 2: Modernize the developer experience with NaturalONE
Attract and develop talent

You can attract and retain new talent with a modern approach to DevOps, tools on modern infrastructure with next-generation architectures and priority projects that contribute to the business strategy. Occasionally that may not be enough, and you may face a shortage of skills. To address resource shortages—no matter how temporary—Software AG has a comprehensive Adabas & Natural Education Services portfolio to support your training needs, as well as Managed Services to fill skill gaps and staffing needs.

Adabas & Natural 2050+ will help you manage the generational change in the workforce with:

  • Education services (onsite and online) to train new talent
  • Managed services to operate your applications, including remote DBA, upgrades, performance and tuning
  • Methodologies and frameworks containing essential guidance and best practices prescribed for you to build a comprehensive future-ready approach with Adabas & Natural
Future ready. Now.

Adabas & Natural 2050+ will help you save money, attract new developer talent and adapt to change by transforming, optimizing and modernizing your applications and development environment. With a flexible IT infrastructure, you can rest assured that your mission-critical applications and high-value data will continue to deliver value to the enterprise and play a key role in your organization’s future.

You don’t have to wait! The technology, processes and methodology are here today to make your Adabas & Natural applications and valuable data align seamlessly with your IT strategy. Imagine the limitless possibilities for your future-ready Adabas & Natural applications.

Figure 3: Adabas & Natural 2050+ Capabilities

If there’s a central tenet to the longstanding success DELJIS has helped foster for the State of Delaware and its criminal justice system—it’s that the IBM Z platform it uses, and the applications it runs with Adabas & Natural, have led to stunning reliability and stability, with support for forward thinking modern innovation.

- Michael Maguigan, Platform Engineer Manager, DELJIS
Take the next step:
Stay connected
Join the community and follow the latest news about Adabas & Natural in the Software AG Tech Community.
See what's new
Discover the latest innovations, view webinars and see how Adabas & Natural is ready for 2050 and beyond.
International User Groups
Join one of our User Groups to network with your peers from all around the globe.
Want to make your core applications future ready?
Build on your legacy. Accelerate development in a modern DevOps environment. Modernize your Adabas & Natural applications to save costs and embrace hybrid cloud. 
ICS JPG PDF WRD XLS