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DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT

Products: Natural for Eclipse and Natural Productivity Packages

Build large-scale, multi-platform applications – faster – using a single development environment

Your business and IT managers expect fast delivery of versatile, high-functioning business applications and services. So meet their demands by using Natural’s highly productive development environments. You’ll find that building even the largest applications is faster and easier!

Just learning Natural? We invite you to download our free Natural Productivity Package Community Edition. You can conduct a trial run to see how easily you can build applications with Natural for Windows.

If Windows is your preferred development environment, the Natural Productivity Package Standard Edition is ideal for you. It expedites application delivery providing a complete Natural development studio for remotely developing and maintaining applications on any platform — mainframe, Unix, Linux and Windows— from the Windows desktop.

Has your organization embraced Eclipse as its standard development environment? Then, you’ll want to take a closer look at Natural Productivity Package Professional and Enterprise editions. Each features Natural for Eclipse and provides an opportunity to improve developer productivity, reduce development and maintenance costs and unify Java and Natural developers to achieve common goals.

Additionally, Natural Productivity Package Enterprise edition includes Natural Business Services, a product for rapidly generating Web services that can be reused in Java, .NET or SOA environments.

Achieve business results faster with Software AG

With Natural Productivity Package Standard Edition – featuring Natural for Windows and Natural Development Server: Learn the Natural language quickly on Windows and develop for various targets such as the Mainframe or Unix without learning new tools. Write code faster—programmers can develop and maintain mainframe applications using modern desktop tools. Speed new services to market—remotely develop and maintain applications on any platform from the Windows desktop, using the Natural Development Server (available on standard, professional and enterprise editions). With Natural Productivity Package Professional Edition - featuring Natural for Eclipse: Increase productivity with one development environment that offers a single view and workbench. Deliver projects on time using powerful editor functions such as code completion, syntax coloring, bookmarks and tasks. Save money: open-source tools and integrated version control help cut development, maintenance and administrative costs. With Natural Productivity Package Enterprise Edition - featuring Natural Business Services: Accelerate development and delivery of new business services using a model-based generator. Save time and money by turning existing Natural subprograms into new Web services that can be reused and easily integrated into a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA).

What it does	Benefit	Learn more
Natural for Eclipse
Offers an integrated Natural development environment for the open-source Eclipse platform	• Improve developer productivity. • Reduce development and maintenance costs. • Unify Java and Natural developers to achieve common goals.	Natural for Eclipse Fact sheet
Natural Productivity Packages
Free Community edition lets you see how the package optimizes your Natural system Standard edition offers complete Natural development studio within a modern Windows environment Professional edition includes Natural for Eclipse to unify development efforts Enterprise edition includes Natural Business services and helps you move to an SOA	• Select the package that best meets your needs. • Get the most value for your money through developer-based licensing	Natural Productivity Package Fact Sheet Hibernian Insurance of Ireland Apollo Optik

“The ease of use of the Natural Productivity Package with the single point of development has increased the productivity of our developers,” said a project manager at Hibernian Insurance of Ireland. “Also, the ease of implementing third-party products into the Natural environment has also been a benefit to our organization.“ Find out more here.

Get on the fast track with the Natural Productivity Package
Meet expectations for faster application delivery by using the Natural Productivity Package. Contact your local sales office today for more information.

Natural is part of the Software AG Business Infrastructure Suite, helping companies to achieve business results – faster. Learn More.

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