This document discusses strategies and innovations for Adabas and Natural in the digital enterprise. It outlines how they will leverage valuable investments, skills, and tools to deliver new projects faster. The roadmap includes optimizing existing applications, rehosting to other platforms, modernizing applications, enabling web and mobile access, integrating with other systems, leveraging big data, and developing cloud applications to help customers, employees and partners.

1. Adabas and Natural
in the Digital Enterprise
Strategy and Innovations
Guido Falkenberg
SVP Product Marketing
14-Nov-2013
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2. INCREASED REVENUE AND ENGAGEMENT!
The Road to the Digital Enterprise
CUSTOMERS
EMPLOYEES
PARTNERS
Systems of differentiation
and engagement
Systems of record
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3. PORTFOLIO
MANAGEMENT
COLLABORATIVE
PROCESS ANALYSIS
PROCESS
AUTOMATION &
INTEGRATION
REAL-TIME
INTELLIGENCE &
BIG DATA
ALFABET
IT Planning and
Portfolio Management
ARIS
Business Process
Analysis
WEBMETHODS
Integration
APAMA
Intelligent Business
Operations
ALFABET
Enterprise
Architecture
Management
ARIS
Governance,
Risk and Compliance
Management
WEBMETHODS
Business Process
Management
TERRACOTTA
In-Memory Data
Management
Portfolios Live
Process Live
NATURAL
Application Development
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AgileApps Live
Integration Live
ADABAS-NATURAL
Application Modernization
ADABAS
Database Management System

4. Strategy for Adabas and Natural
Leverage
valuable
Investments
BPM
Skills
& Tools
SOA
B2B
Mobile
Big Data
Application
Modernization
Social
IT
Platform
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Cloud
Deliver
New Projects
faster

5. Adabas the fastest transactional database
More than
1 Million calls/second
Triple performance
since 2006
Fully leverage new IBM zEC12 mainframe
More information under http://www.adabas.com/ - Adabas Stress Test on z/OS
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6. NaturalONE – Eclipse-based Development
Natural on
Linux, UNIX, Windows
and Mainframe
Intelligent
Parser
Agile
Development
HTML
Documentation
Debug
Test
Automation
Local and Remote
Life-cycle
Management
Code style checker
Versioning
SVN, CVS
Add-on Integration
e.g. Predict, Construct
z/OS Tools
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Data
Browser
Java, .NET,
Web Services Integration
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EntireX
Plug-in
Web/AJAX
Development
Modernize
Green Screens
Maps

7. Developing Web Apps with Natural for AJAX
Multi-Browser
Up-/Download
NaturalONE Development
GUI Control Library
Multi-language
Security
Easy Natural
Programming
PROCESS PAGE USING ‘MY-PAGE'
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Image/Documents
Dashboards
Code-free
Web Design
No HTML or Javascript

8. What‘s coming in Adabas and Natural
2014
2015
Natural as server for Web, SOA and Mobile apps.
Open up Adabas to Big Data.
Gain more performance insights.
Enhance high-availability and performance.
Leverage new platform architectures.
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2016

9. Mainframe Optimization and Platform Rehosting
Mainframe
Optimization
Stay on the mainframe and
improve performance and total
cost of ownership.
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Linux, UNIX, Windows
Support of Virtualization
Rehosting
Move Adabas Natural app to another
platform and reduce
IT operation costs up to 80%

10. Application Modernization
Improve interoperability of Adabas and Natural
UI
User Interface
Web-enablement
ApplinX, Natural for AJAX
3270, 9750, etc.
Business Logic
Service-enablement
EntireX, ApplinX
Natural
Data
DB
DB2 z/OS
VSAM, etc.
SQL-enablement
DB2
Oracle
SQL Server
Mainframe, Linux, UNIX, Windows
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Adabas SQL Gateway
Replication
Event Replicator
for Adabas
Oracle, Data
Warehouse
etc.

11. webMethods Integration Platform
Connect Adabas Natural with other internal and external systems
B2B MFT
Apps
Data
Business
Logic
SOA
Apps
UI
IT Platform
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Web Portal
Apps
Workflow
BPM Apps
Mobile
Apps
COBOL
Packaged
Applications
Cloud SaaS
Applications
ERP, HR, etc.
Custom
Applications
HR, CRM, etc.

12. these
4 forces
are no longer a probability … they are a strategic priority!
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13. Adabas Natural meets Mobile
>
Extend app accessibility to mobile devices
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Application
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Mobile Device >

14. Mobile enable your Adabas Natural Application
HTML-based mobile apps
Developed in Natural
NaturalONE & Natural for AJAX
ApplinX
Natural
Applications
Adabas
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DB2, etc.
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Develop – Multi-platform native apps
Integrate – Backend apps securely
Manage – Apps and Devices
webMethods Mobile Suite
Other Back-end
Applications
SAP, Oracle,
etc
Java, .NET,
Mainframe, etc.

15. AgileApps Live
Develop and Integrate Cloud Applications
Custom Cloud
Applications
Cloud-based
App Development
Adapter, EntireX, ApplinX,
Adabas SQL Gateway,
Event Replicator for Adabas
And many other backend applications
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Visually develop and run
collaborative process-driven Web
application in weeks rather than months
– in the cloud and for the cloud.
Enterprise capabilities:
Robust process modeler, flexible business rules, database modeler, easy data
and Excel import, drag-and-drop e-forms creation, customized reports,
interactive dashboards, social collaboration and native mobile access.

16. Big Fast Data
Apama
Presto
In-Memory
Acceleration
Improve applcation
responsiveness and
availability with
in-memory
data store.
Real-time
Visualization
Enable business users
with
self-service dashboards
to analyze and view
changing business
data.
Event Processing
Analytics
Respond to situations
as they happen using
rule-based event
patterns.
Pre-built solutions for
capital markets.
Leveraging real-time data delivery for real-time intelligence.
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17. Architecture: Big Fast Data
Existing applications
Business Data
Adabas
DB2, VSAM,
IMS, IDMS, etc.
Real-time Data Integration
Event Replicator for Adabas
Adabas SQL & SOA Gateway
e.g. orders, transactions, customers
DB2, Oracle,
SQL Server, etc.
New Data Sources
e.g. Feeds, Events, Sensors, RFID, GPS
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In-Memory
Data Store
Presto
Real-time
Visualization
Event Processing
Analytics
New
Applications
Access from
anywhere
Business User
Self-service

18. Adabas Natural Roadmap to a Digital Enterprise
PAST
PRESENT
FUTURE
Business Process Management
Application Modernization
Service-oriented Architectures
Improve operational efficiency and support new hardware architectures
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