Virtual User Group

Virtual Adabas & Natural User Group Meeting

Join us for the Adabas & Natural Virtual User Group Meeting!

Get the latest updates, practical tips, and real-world perspective from your peers and product experts. Whether you’re focused on developer productivity, modernization, or operational best practices, this session is designed to deliver takeaways you can use.

Datas e horários

US Eastern

North America Online Virtual User Group
banner for April 2026 Virtual User Group

ABOUT THIS EVENT

Adabas & Natural Virtual User Group Meeting is your opportunity to connect with the community and stay current on what’s happening across the Adabas & Natural ecosystem.

What we’ll cover includes:

  • Streamlining NaturalONE client rollouts for faster developer onboarding
  • Product direction and practical modernization paths to unlock new business value
  • Operational guidance and support insights, including Adabas Manager/SMS managed volumes
  • Community/customer perspectives and shared learnings
  • AI-Ready data integration
  • Quick updates from the Software AG team, plus prizes and a post-event survey incentive

QUESTIONS / TOPIC IDEAS

If you have specific topics you’d like us to cover, or if you’re interested in presenting at an upcoming meeting, please email us at adabas.natural@softwareag.com.

April 23

Quinta-feira


Welcome

Chris Oskuie, Sales VP Becky Albin, Senior Director, Principal Systems Engineer

NaturalONE Client Rollout with Ease

Dave Kelly, Principal Systems Engineer Learn how to quickly deploy the NaturalONE client to developers using the deployment package technique. Install Software AG Designer and the NaturalONE perspective on client workstation in minutes —no Windows elevated rights required—and manage the rollout easily with standard desktop software management tools.

AI-Ready Data Integration: From Data Silos to Intelligent Access

Demos Economacos, Principal Systems Engineer Create a secure access and streaming layer that makes trusted mainframe data available to analytics platforms, AI models, and event-driven architectures like Kafka, enabling real-time insights without disrupting systems of record.

SEI ‘s Journey Modernizing Data Integration

Linda Lyng, SEI Explore how SEI advanced its data integration approach, moving from ADABAS to relational platforms. This session walks through the evolution of its data extraction strategies, including key challenges encountered and lessons learned along the way. It also highlights SEI’s collaboration with SAGA and contributions to the ARF Replication Facility, before diving into how ARF is deployed across multiple clients today—offering practical insights into running reliable, scalable replication solutions in production environments.

Stay Connected: Get the Most from the Adabas & Natural Community

Renata Gober, A&N Marketing Director Learn how staying connected can help you get more value from the Adabas & Natural Community. We’ll walk through our opt-in program and explain why subscribing to communications ensures you receive updates on upcoming events, product enhancements, roadmap insights, and valuable technical resources. You’ll also get a quick tour of our new website, including how to easily find product information, access resources, and discover upcoming events designed to support your success.

Break

Unlocking New Business Value with Adabas & Natural

Eli Cohen, VP, Product Management A&N Adabas & Natural systems are known for their performance, scalability, and reliability – but today’s enterprises demand more: faster innovation, seamless integration, and measurable business outcomes. In this session, we will demonstrate how organizations can extend and modernize their Adabas & Natural environments across IBM Z, Linux, and Cloud platforms while introducing modern capabilities such as OpenAPI standards, DevOps integration, messaging-based integration, and AI tooling for Natural developers.

Adabas Manager and SMS Managed Volumes

Helen Kreztman, Principal Technical Support Engineer Michael Dransfield, Principal Technical Support Engineer Discover the process for increasing Mainframe Adabas container files in an SMS-managed environment, including key procedural steps and how the approach differs from increases in non-SMS environments. We will also provide a brief tour of new Adabas Manager features, including the monitoring dashboard to open systems and functionality that will eventually replace the Event Replicator Target Adapter Administration tool.

Closing Remarks