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Enterprise software products A-Z

ADABAS
Adabas is a high-performance database designed for large-scale transaction processing on IBM® z/OS®, Linux, and the cloud. It enables seamless access to Adabas data using SQL, facilitates data replication to cloud databases and BI platforms, and scales workloads while maintaining exceptional transaction speed, availability, and cost efficiency. Adabas delivers outstanding performance—processing over 1 million commands per second—with significantly fewer staff and resources than comparable database management systems.
Explore Adabas products
  • Adabas

    Comprehensive and scalable enterprise database management system optimized for big data and designed for reliability, high performance, and low total cost of ownership.

    Available for IBM z/OS®, Linux® and Cloud platforms.

  • Adabas Auditing z/OS

    Provide auditing track of who worked with Adabas, how and when. Allows for granular configuration based on subscriptions. Keep historical audit trail for self-service queries in a modern web frontend.

    Read the datasheet here.

  • Adabas Caching Facility

    Buffers Adabas data and indexes in memory, decreasing the number of physical I/Os and thus increasing database efficiency and performance.

    Available for Adabas for z/OS.

  • Adabas Client for Java
    Helps Java® developers and software designers who have the need to process data stored in Adabas through the use of Java.
  • Adabas Cluster for Linux & Cloud

    Achieve application-transparent 24x7 high availablity (HA) for your Adabas data. Allow geo-distribution of your Adabas installation.

    Available for Adabas for Linux & Cloud.

  • Adabas Cluster Services

    Provides 24x7 high availability (HA) for Adabas for z/OS.
    Runs in an IBM Parallel Sysplex® environment, executing up to 32 Adabas images in parallel in full data-sharing mode.

    Available for Adabas for z/OS.

  • Adabas Delta Save

    Optimizes Adabas backups. Achieves faster backup by writing only changed blocks to the backup medium.

    Available for Adabas for z/OS.

  • Adabas Encryption for Linux

    Secure your data-in-flight and data-at-rest when accessing Adabas for Linux & Cloud.

    Available for Adabas for Linux & Cloud.

    Read the datasheet here.

  • Adabas Encryption for z/OS

    Secure your Adabas data-at-rest when accessing Adabas on z/OS. Leverages IBM Pervasive Encryption technologies.

    Available for Adabas for z/OS.

    Read the datasheet here.

  • Adabas Event Replicator for Linux & Windows

    Highly flexible event-publishing tool that enables real-time data replication to target systems.

    Available for Adabas on Linux and Cloud.

    Read the datasheet here.

  • Adabas Event Replicator for z/OS

    Replicates data changes from Adabas in real-time to other Adabas, RDBMS, business intelligence, or big data environments.

    Available for Adabas for z/OS.

  • Adabas Fastpath

    Optimizes direct access and sequential reads to Adabas data. Automatically stores frequently accessed records in memory to reduce CPU usage and optimize performance.
    Implements automatic read-ahead for sequential reads.

    Available for Adabas for z/OS.

  • Adabas for zIIP™

    Reduces mainframe TCO by shifting Adabas workload to IBM zIIP™ processors for more cost-effective processing.

    Available for Adabas for z/OS.

    Read the datasheet here

  • Adabas Manager
    Provides a browser-based interface to administer Adabas.
    Available for Adabas for z/OS and Linux & Cloud. It also covers Adabas Event Replicator for z/OS, Adabas Auditing for z/OS and Entire Net-Work.
  • Adabas Online System

    Offers a mainframe-based interface to administer and monitor Adabas.

    Available for Adabas for z/OS.

  • Adabas Parallel Services

    Increase Adabas throughput and performance.
    Achieved by allowing multiple instances of the same database within one and the same LPAR.

    Available for Adabas for z/OS.

  • Adabas Review

    Allows for operational monitoring and reporting of the Adabas nuclei.

    Available for Adabas for z/OS.

  • Adabas SAF Security

    Provides SAF-based access control for Adabas for z/OS.
    Validates each end user using RACF®, TOP Secret, or ACF2 security definitions before allowing access to Adabas.

    Available for Adabas for z/OS.

  • Adabas SQL Gateway

    Provides standard SQL interface to access Adabas with SQL queries using standard JDBC® and ODBC interfaces.
    Can access Adabas for z/OS and Linux & Cloud.

    Read the datasheet here.

  • Entire Net-Work

    Message-based middleware that allows Adabas databases to be accessed anywhere on the network.

    Available for Adabas for z/OS.

NATURAL
Natural is a programming language designed to build fast, reliable, and production-ready enterprise applications on IBM® z/OS®, Linux, and the cloud. Major enterprises worldwide have made significant investments in customizing these applications to gain a competitive edge and optimize performance for the most demanding operational runtime service level agreements.
Explore Natural products
  • Entire Access

    Empowers Natural programs with seamless, direct interaction with relational databases, leveraging Natural’s robust data manipulation language or standard SQL for efficient data access and management. This capability ensures high performance and flexibility, allowing developers to work with databases effortlessly while maintaining the integrity and efficiency of their Natural applications.

    Fully supported on Natural for Linux and Cloud and Natural for Windows.

  • Natural Availability Server

    Enhance the availability and reliability of your Natural applications with our advanced solutions for Linux or cloud environments. Whether you're optimizing for on-premises Linux systems or leveraging the scalability of the cloud, Natural Availability Server ensure seamless performance and minimal downtime. Empower your applications to operate at peak efficiency with robust support for high availability.

    Read the datasheet here.

  • Natural Advanced Facilities

    Provides seamless direct printing capabilities from a Natural application within CICS®, and IMS TM environments, ensuring efficient and reliable document output. This feature enables smooth integration with enterprise transaction processing systems, allowing Natural applications to generate and manage print jobs effortlessly within these environments.

    Fully supported for Natural on z/OS, delivering robust and scalable printing solutions for mainframe applications. 

  • Natural Construct

    A powerful, model-based application generator designed to significantly accelerate development, reducing effort by up to 50%. By automating key aspects of the application lifecycle, it streamlines coding, enhances productivity, and ensures consistency across projects.
    This advanced tool empowers developers to focus on business logic rather than repetitive coding tasks, leading to faster time-to-market, improved maintainability, and greater efficiency in software development.

    Fully available for Natural on z/OS, Linux, and Cloud, enabling scalable, high-performance application generation across diverse environments. 

  • Natural for Ajax

    Enables the native development of rich, dynamic, and responsive web and mobile applications directly with Natural, eliminating the need for additional frameworks or complex integrations.

    With built-in support for modern user interfaces and seamless interactivity, this capability ensures that applications deliver an engaging user experience across devices, from desktops to smartphones. Developers can efficiently create and deploy web-based solutions while leveraging the power and simplicity of Natural.

    Fully supported on z/OS, Linux, and Cloud, ensuring flexibility, scalability, and enterprise-grade performance across multiple environments.

    Read the datasheet here

  • Natural for DB2® for zIIP

    Seamlessly empowers Natural applications to interact with  Db2 databases, utilizing either Natural’s powerful data manipulation language or standard SQL for efficient and flexible data access.

    This capability ensures high-performance database integration, allowing developers to work within the familiar Natural environment while leveraging the full power of Db2. It simplifies data retrieval, updates, and transactions, optimizing both application efficiency and maintainability.

    Fully available for Natural on z/OS, providing robust, enterprise-grade database connectivity for mission-critical mainframe applications. 

    Read the datasheet here.

  • Natural for DB2®

    Enables Natural applications to access DB2 using Natural’s own data manipulation language or standard SQL.

    Available for Natural on z/OS.

  • Natural TP monitor interfaces

    Seamlessly enables Natural applications to interact with each one of these different interface products:

    Natural IMS/TM Interface
    Natural for CICS
    Natural for Com-PLETE
    Natural for TSO

    Each one of these interfaces ensures high-performance transaction management, allowing Natural applications to communicate smoothly with each one of the interfaces, facilitating reliable and scalable transaction execution within enterprise environments. Developers benefit from a simplified yet powerful integration, ensuring streamlined operations and enhanced maintainability.

    Fully available for Natural on z/OS, providing robust and enterprise-grade connectivity for mission-critical transactional applications. 

  • Natural for Linux and Cloud

    Effortlessly run Natural applications on Linux, Cloud, and Windows, leveraging an intuitive and efficient development and deployment environment designed to optimize performance and reduce costs.

    By enabling seamless execution across multiple platforms, this solution helps organizations modernize their IT landscape, improve scalability, and enhance flexibility without disrupting existing applications. Developers benefit from a user-friendly, integrated environment that simplifies application management, accelerates development cycles, and ensures smooth deployment.

    With support for Linux, Cloud, and Windows, enterprises can significantly lower their Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) while maintaining the power, reliability, and functionality of their Natural applications. 

  • Natural for z/OS

    A powerful and scalable development and deployment environment, tailor-made for large-scale online transaction processing (OLTP) and Batch applications that demand high performance, reliability, and efficiency.

    Designed to handle massive transaction volumes with minimal latency, this environment ensures seamless processing, real-time responsiveness, and enterprise-grade stability. Developers benefit from a robust, intuitive framework that simplifies application creation, integration, and management, optimizing both efficiency and maintainability.

    With its scalability and resilience, this solution is ideal for business-critical OLTP and Batch applications, ensuring uninterrupted operations, rapid transaction execution, and superior user experiences in high-demand environments. 

  • Natural for VSAM

    Seamlessly empowers Natural applications to interact with VSAM (Virtual Storage Access Method) files, utilizing either Natural’s powerful data manipulation language or standard SQL for efficient and flexible data access.

    This capability enables high-performance integration with VSAM, allowing Natural applications to read, write, and manage data seamlessly while ensuring data integrity, speed, and scalability. Developers can leverage the familiar Natural environment to interact with VSAM files effortlessly, reducing complexity and enhancing maintainability.

    Fully available for Natural on z/OS, delivering enterprise-grade connectivity for mission-critical mainframe applications that rely on VSAM for fast, structured data storage and retrieval.

  • Natural ISPF

    A powerful Natural editor designed specifically for developers. It provides an intuitive and efficient interface, allowing developers to write, edit, and manage Natural code seamlessly.

    This editor enhances productivity by offering a structured, ISPF-like experience. With built-in support for Natural on z/OS, it is facilitating efficient development, debugging, and maintenance of mission-critical applications.

    Fully available for Natural on z/OS. 

  • Natural for zIIP

    Reduces costs by enabling Natural batch applications and online workloads to offload processing from the general-purpose processor to the IBM® zIIP (Integrated Information Processor).

    By leveraging zIIP specialty processors, this capability helps organizations significantly lower CPU usage costs, improve system efficiency, and free up resources for other critical tasks. The transition to zIIP ensures better workload distribution, enhanced throughput, and optimized processing power, making it ideal for enterprises seeking cost-effective scalability.

    Fully available for Natural on z/OS, this solution maximizes mainframe efficiency while maintaining the high performance, reliability, and flexibility required for mission-critical applications. 

  • Natural Optimizer Compiler

    Enhances performance and execution speed by compiling Natural statements and sequences of statements directly into optimized machine code, enabling significantly faster processing and improved efficiency.

    By converting Natural code into low-level executable instructions, this capability reduces interpretation overhead, leading to better runtime performance, lower resource consumption, and faster response times for high-demand applications. It is particularly beneficial for compute-intensive workloads and large-scale batch processing, ensuring optimal efficiency in mainframe environments.

    Fully available for Natural on z/OS, this feature provides a high-performance execution environment, allowing enterprises to maximize processing speed while maintaining the flexibility and maintainability of Natural applications. 

  • Natural Review Monitor

    Used to monitor the performance and user activities of Natural applications running under CICS®.

    Available for Natural on z/OS.

  • Natural SAF Security

    Seamlessly integrates Natural applications with external SAF (System Authorization Facility)-compliant security systems, ensuring robust access control, authentication, and authorization within enterprise environments.

    This capability enables organizations to leverage existing security frameworks, such as RACF®, ACF2®, or Top Secret®, to enforce centralized security policies while maintaining compliance with corporate and regulatory standards. By utilizing SAF-compliant mechanisms, Natural applications can securely authenticate users, manage permissions, and protect sensitive data, enhancing overall system security and integrity.

    Fully available for Natural on z/OS, this feature provides seamless security integration, allowing enterprises to strengthen access management while ensuring a smooth and efficient user experience. 

  • Natural Security

    Ensures robust security for Natural applications throughout both development and runtime by managing and controlling user access, protecting sensitive data, and preventing unauthorized usage.

    This capability allows organizations to enforce strict access controls, ensuring that only authorized users can develop, modify, or execute Natural applications. By integrating with enterprise authentication and security frameworks, it helps maintain compliance with security policies while safeguarding application integrity.

    Fully available for Natural on z/OS, Linux, and Cloud, this feature provides comprehensive access control across multiple environments, enhancing security, reliability, and operational confidence for mission-critical applications. 

  • NaturalONE

    Easily develop, modernize, manage, and integrate applications using an Eclipse-based DevOps tool that provides an intuitive, user-friendly environment to streamline workflows and enhance collaboration across teams.

    This tool is designed to facilitate DevOps processes and policies, ensuring continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) while promoting automation, efficiency, and consistency throughout the application lifecycle. From initial development to ongoing maintenance, it enables teams to rapidly build, deploy, and update applications in alignment with modern DevOps practices.

    The toolset empowers developers with advanced features, such as visual design code completion, and integrated debugging, while also simplifying the modernization of legacy applications. It allows for seamless integration with new technologies and platforms while maintaining compatibility with existing systems.

    Built on the Eclipse platform, the tool ensures flexibility, extensibility, and productivity, making it the perfect choice for organizations looking to accelerate their development cycles, improve collaboration and quality, and ensure effective DevOps implementation. 

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  • Com-plete

    Acts as a transaction processing monitor, effectively managing and optimizing system resources for online transaction processing (OLTP) applications. This solution ensures the efficient handling of concurrent transactions, enabling high-speed data processing, resource allocation, and seamless communication between users and applications in real-time.

    By overseeing system resources, it ensures scalability, reliability, and performance for OLTP workloads, balancing load distribution, transaction queuing, and error management. It helps prevent system bottlenecks and ensures that critical transactions are processed without delay, maintaining business continuity and operational efficiency.

    Available for z/OS and optimized for Natural for z/OS. 

  • Entire Connection
    Powerful terminal emulation software that seamlessly connects users to applications running on both z/OS and Linux®, ensuring smooth communication and interaction between users and their enterprise systems. This solution facilitates efficient access to z/OS and Linux-based applications from a wide variety of devices, enabling streamlined workflows and increased productivity across different platforms. 
  • ESPAuto

    Offers robust functionality to establish and manage an automated batch environment, allowing for the streamlined execution of scheduled tasks, processes, and batch jobs without manual intervention. This capability helps improve operational efficiency, reduce errors, and ensure timely execution of critical processes.

    By automating batch workflows, businesses can optimize resource utilization, enhance consistency, and ensure that jobs are processed in a predictable, error-free manner. It also simplifies the management of complex workflows, enabling teams to focus on higher-value tasks and reducing the need for manual oversight. This feature is particularly valuable for modernizing legacy applications, as it allows for the efficient automation of routine tasks while transitioning to more agile, cloud-based platforms.

    Available for Natural on Linux and Cloud, this solution supports scalable, flexible, and automated batch management that drives efficiency and accelerates application modernization efforts, helping businesses evolve and stay competitive. 

  • ESPBatch

    Significantly reduces conversion time between mainframe and Linux® environments, streamlining the process of migrating applications and data while maintaining efficiency and minimizing downtime. This solution also provides robust support for submitting and managing script control language job streams, enabling seamless automation of workflows and job execution.

    By simplifying the conversion process, teams can more effectively modernize applications, transitioning from legacy mainframe systems to more agile and cost-effective Linux platforms. This capability ensures that both legacy systems and modern platforms work in harmony, allowing businesses to optimize workflows, improve system compatibility, and reduce the complexity associated with application modernization.

    Available for Natural on Linux and Cloud, this solution ensures a smooth migration path while also offering ongoing application management, enabling businesses to evolve their systems and enhance overall operational efficiency. 

  • ESPControl

    Streamlines the migration, documentation, and backup of Natural objects between different environments, facilitating controlled processes for moving applications from development to production. This solution ensures that transitions are quick, secure, and efficient, allowing for seamless management of changes and updates across environments.

    By simplifying the migration and backup processes, organizations can maintain data integrity and version control throughout the development lifecycle, minimizing downtime and reducing risks associated with manual transfers. It also ensures that all changes are well-documented, making it easier to track modifications, audit processes, and maintain compliance with industry standards.

    This capability is especially beneficial for application modernization, as it supports the smooth transition of legacy systems to more modern environments, while preserving critical application components.

    Available for Natural on Linux and Cloud, this solution supports flexible, scalable management of Natural objects, providing businesses with a more efficient way to control and protect their applications during modernization efforts and beyond. 

  • Predict

    Cuts application development and maintenance time by up to 50%, streamlining processes and significantly reducing costs. This solution centralizes essential information in a single repository, providing a unified, easy-to-access location for all project-related data, resources, and documentation.

    By consolidating critical components into one central hub, developers can improve collaboration, enhance workflow efficiency, and accelerate troubleshooting and updates. The centralized repository also ensures that information is consistent, up-to-date, and accessible across teams, eliminating redundancy and reducing the risk of errors.

    Fully available for Natural on z/OS, Linux, and Cloud, this tool provides a scalable and reliable solution to optimize the development and maintenance of Natural applications, ensuring enhanced productivity and more streamlined operations across multiple environments. 

  • Predict Application Control

    Enables precise application versioning to guarantee the controlled and secure transfer of applications and updates into production environments. This process ensures that only authorized versions are deployed, maintaining integrity, minimizing risks, and ensuring consistency throughout the lifecycle.

    By implementing robust version control, teams can track changes, manage release cycles, and verify that the correct versions are in use, ensuring that updates or new features are tested, approved, and deployed seamlessly.

    This secure and efficient process helps reduce deployment errors, improves traceability, and enhances overall compliance with internal policies and regulatory standards.


    Fully available for Natural on z/OS, this feature provides enterprise-grade control over application updates, ensuring that production environments remain stable, secure, and up-to-date. 

CONNX
Unlock enterprise data wherever it resides with Software AG’s CONNX. It provides secure, real-time read/write SQL data access and integration, enabling seamless connectivity across diverse database architectures. With CONNX, you can quickly access and leverage your data to drive business forward.
Explore CONNX products
  • CONNX DataSync
    Optimize your system performance by setting your database synchronization schedule to meet your organization’s needs with CONNX’s near real-time solution.
  • CONNX Data Virtualization
    Meet all of your data access, integration and management requirements whether you are seeking to plug into mainframe, mid-tier, desktop or cloud systems.
  • CONNX Data Visualization
    View  data in a meaningful way whether via the desktop to handle queries or to visualize key business metrics on a mobile device.
  • CONNX real-time Data Access

    CONNX real-time Data Access Get your data where it’s needed with CONNX DB Adapters, providing simplified SQL connectivity to 150+ data sources and platforms, an unrivalled range of legacy, relational, big data and cloud databases CONNX DB Adapters

    See the full list of CONNX DB Adapters here.

ESM
Entire Systems Management (ESM) automates production control in distributed IT environments for data processing centers. Its modular, cross-platform design allows for customized configurations to meet specific needs. The Entire Systems Management Suite delivers exceptional flexibility, reliability, and data integrity for seamless data center operations.
  • Entire Operations

    Forms the operational backbone for production planning and control in a diverse IT landscape, ensuring seamless coordination and management across different systems and platforms. This solution integrates various components and processes, enabling end-to-end automation of IT operations, ensuring efficiency, reliability, and consistency in production workflows.

    By unifying diverse technologies and environments, it provides a comprehensive approach to managing the entire IT lifecycle, from initial planning to execution, monitoring, and control. It helps organizations optimize resource utilization, reduce manual intervention, and enhance overall operational performance, even in complex and heterogeneous infrastructures.

    As part of the Entire Systems Management suite, it delivers comprehensive IT process automation, enabling businesses to streamline operations, improve service delivery, and drive cost efficiencies while maintaining full control over production systems and processes. 

  • Entire Output Management

    Transforms printing tasks across diverse IT environments into a streamlined, efficient, and highly controllable printing and distribution process. This solution simplifies the management of print workflows, ensuring that all print jobs are processed consistently, organized, and easily monitored, regardless of the underlying system or platform.

    By centralizing and automating print management, it enhances visibility, improves resource allocation, and reduces the complexity typically associated with printing in heterogeneous environments. It allows for fine-grained control over print queues, distribution, and job scheduling, ensuring that documents are delivered to the right destinations at the right time with minimal errors and manual intervention.

    As part of the Entire Systems Management suite, this solution plays a crucial role in IT process automation, enabling businesses to optimize their print management workflows, reduce operational costs, and improve overall efficiency across various environments. 

  • Entire System Server

    Enables seamless access to the information and services provided by operating systems, allowing Natural applications to interact directly with system resources and leverage the full capabilities of the underlying platforms. This functionality ensures that developers can efficiently integrate and manage operating system services within their Natural applications, enhancing overall application performance and operational flexibility.

    By providing comprehensive access to system-level information and resources, it simplifies tasks such as file management, system monitoring, and resource allocation, all from within the Natural development environment. This integration ensures that applications can fully utilize the features and capabilities of the operating system without needing complex external tools or manual interventions.

    Available for Natural on z/OS, Linux, and Cloud (on Linux with ESM product only), this solution supports cross-platform functionality, enabling businesses to optimize operations and enhance system-level interactions regardless of the underlying environment. 

  • ESM Job Scheduling
    Constitutes the operational core of production planning and control in a heterogeneous IT landscape. Part of the Entire Systems Management suite for IT process automation.
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