Digitalization is in full force and being widely adopted across nearly every sector and industry —and for compelling reasons. It is enabling businesses to create new sources of revenue, transform their business models, innovate and move faster. With our commitment to Adabas & Natural 2050+, it is possible to build on your legacy applications instead of ripping them out and replacing them. With this new release, we’ve strengthened our commitment and fulfilled our promise to bring your decades-old applications into the modern world of microservices and modular functions connected through APIs!

• Develop and deliver applications faster, more transparently and in a higher quality with Eclipse-based NaturalONE and DevOps – now with extended capabilities in DevOps tool chain integration and screen test automation.
• Run Adabas & Natural in container and cloud environments (like Docker®, Kubernetes and Red Hat®, OpenShift), improve the scalability and simplify the provisioning and deployment.
• Save costs with mainframe offloading to the IBM® zIIP™ processor without taking risks in operations or needing to make code changes. We are now offering additional zIIP offloading capabilities for Adabas to offload even more workload.
• Expose Natural business logic with a one-click approach as API services. With the new version of EntireX, you will be able to support standard REST/JSON™ interfaces. These API services can easily be plugged into an API management platform.
• Gain data insights by integrating Adabas with data warehouse, business intelligence, cloud, artificial intelligence and big data-/-data lake technologies (such as in-memory, NoSQL, Hadoop® and ElasticSearch®).
• Manage the generational change – New self-learning videos and renewed Adabas & Natural product training make it easy to train new talent.

To be a digital business you need to be faster than fast, foster organization-wide collaboration and do everything with enterprise-grade security. That means a seamless alignment between IT and the requirements of the business. To help you stay out in front, we’ve enhanced our Alfabet product offering with new functionality and enhanced features that drive up usability, ease or obsolete data maintenance, advance office-tooling integration and more. Attend this session to learn more about these new capabilities in Alfabet:

• Agile IT planning and delivery features
• Jira® integration
• New visualizations that target what needs to change
• API planning features
• Better data protection and secure system operation

The ins and outs of your operations are often difficult to see—and document. From supply chains to quality controls and risk and compliance management how do you pinpoint where improvements should be made? ARIS reinforces the Enterprise Digital Twin with capabilities around professional process modeling and knowledge sharing in large enterprise scenarios. An appealing end-user interface and its ease of use combined with integrated process mining, performance measurement and GDPR compliance complement the newest ARIS offerings to achieve excellence. Attend this session as we discuss how ARIS new features and capabilities solve the growing need for “twinning” your organization, including:

• Large Enterprise scenario enablement
• End-user experience and support enhancements
• Business and IT alignment (S/4HANA®, the Internet of Things and automation)
• New process mining capabilities
• GDPR compliance

Embrace digitalization and scale up your transformation with our Digital Business Platform. Discover what we have done to make our Digital Business Platform an open, independent and foremost an INTEGRATED platform bringing our digital capabilities together across our entire platform portfolio for enabling multiple use cases along your digital journey. This session will cover release highlights including:

• Data interchange in the DBP with Digital Event Services and Terracotta DB
• Improved and more consistent web user interfaces
• Using Command Central, Unit Test Framework, Docker and Kubernetes as part of your DevOps toolchain
• The upcoming Software AG Cloud portal, your one-stop shop for information on our cloud offerings and managing free trials and subscriptions.

In our digitally-driven world it’s all about getting there fast— and first. With enhanced analytics capabilities in Apama, MashZone and Zementis that extend the available analytics algorithms, you can ensure the performance of executing analytics maps to the increased use of analytics in your customer scenarios. This session will spotlight the new and enhanced capabilities of our three leading analytics product offerings, including:

• Leveraging Python® integration with artificial intelligence and machine learning
• Deep learning via deep neural networks in PMML with Zementis
• Accelerating MashZone dashboards with pre-prepared data
• Prometheus ecosystem-based integration for monitoring and alerts in Apama
• Model prediction summary stats, model-related runtime metrics with REST APIs

Fast-start IoT just got smarter, better and easier to use. We’ve enriched our open, independent Internet of Things platform to offer powerful real-time analytics, upgraded performance and improved usability. Attend this session to learn how you can infuse the IoT across your digital business with our ultimate IoT platform. You’ll learn about:

• Cumulocity IoT Edge for distributed architecture support with device connectivity, management, analytics, and data filtering
• Apama integration for streaming analytics
• New options in our LWM2M support
• Custom integrations, analytics, and back-end applications using the microservices SDK or Docker containers
• Pre-building analytics with Analytics Builder
• Integration with our Digital Business Platform

Help big data make its big impact on your real-time decision making with Terracotta & Universal Messaging. Go cloud-agnostic with your approach to deploying distributed in-memory data and messaging fabric. We’ve enhanced Terracotta DB & Messaging to ensure a greater level of manageability as well as improved scalability. Attend this deep dive session to learn more about:

• Docker® and Kubernetes deployment options
• Cloud and container-based deployments
• Unlocking ad hoc search and analysis with SQL-like querying
• Enterprise-grade security and transaction support
• Universal Messaging enterprise readiness
• New Command Central admin and management features

The webMethods API Management Platform provides a comprehensive solution that allows the developer community to find, learn about, discuss and test your APIs via an API Portal. Securely expose your APIs to third-party developers, partners and other consumers for use in web, mobile and IoT applications via the API Gateway. Please join us to get an update on the latest release and learn more about these new capabilities:

• New micro-gateway for managing access to APIs exposed by microservices
• API mashups for light weight API compositions and chaining within API Gateway
• Event enabled APIs with Java® Message Service JMS and Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) support
• Transaction based licensing across multiple API Gateway nodes
• Hot deployment of APIs
• OpenAPI v3 support
• Developer onboarding and improved developer experience in API Portal
• Default UI theme enhancements for API Portal

Integration is at the core of our Digital Business Platform. If you aim to survive in the era of digital disruption, you must consider hybrid integration. webMethods Hybrid Integration is a proven software and cloud offering that enables enterprises to rapidly integrate SaaS and on-premises applications, systems, devices, processes, business partners, and data to provide new business value. Please join us to get an update on the latest release and learn more about these new capabilities:

• Cloud deployment with CI/CD (develop on Designer and deploy to the cloud)
• Cloud migration (migrate from on-premises webMethods Integration Server directly to webmethods Integration Cloud)
• New B2B as a service (webMethods Trading Networks and EDI in the cloud)
• Microservices, Kubernetes and REST/JSON™ enhancements
• New connectors and IIoT adapters
• Agent-driven transfers and new webMethods ActiveTransfer UI
• Unified monitoring of B2B and API traffic
• Data steward UI enhancements for master data management

webMethods Dynamic Apps is the application assembly platform for organizations executing on a digital business strategy. Designed for building dynamic process, task, case, rules and UI-centric applications, Dynamic Apps is integrated with our Robotic Process Automation (RPA) offering to automate manual work, processes and administrative tasks. It is also infused with closed loop analytics and built on top of the webMethods market-leading integration platform. Please join us to get an update on the latest release and learn more about these new capabilities:

• Web-based Designer for process, task, case and UI app development
• Architectural rationalization with a single compute node
• DBO process-to-case integration for exception management
• New webMethods AgileApps runtime web UI
• Site enhancements and gadget support using Angular 5
• New hybrid mobile app for dynamic apps
• New webMethods Optimize for Infrastructure KPIs for Integration Server monitoring