Adabas & Natural

IUG Conference 2025

July 8-10 | Hamburg, Germany

Hamburg
Hamburg
Hamburg
Agenda
Tuesday, July 8
  • 13:00-17:00 Innovation Labs

    New this year, our Innovation Labs give you exclusive hands-on access to future versions before release. Guided by an expert, you can explore  new features, test cutting-edge functionality, and share your feedback directly with product development.

    Join us to shape the future with your insights!

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  • 13:00-17:00 Product Training
    Boost your skills with our free product training sessions. Led by experts, these training workshops help you master our software, discover best practices, and deepen your knowledge. Join us to learn, practice, and get the most out of our technology.
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  • 17:00-19:00 Welcome Reception
Agenda
Wednesday, July 9
  • 9:00-9:20 Welcome

    📍Rooms Lotus/Jasmin/Lemon, 1st Floor

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  • 9:20-10:00 Catching the wind of innovation

    📍Rooms Lotus/Jasmin/Lemon, 1st Floor

    In 2016, we launched Adabas & Natural 2050+ to empower our customers’ success by delivering product innovations that catch the potential of new tech to ensure your  mission-critical applications are future ready, now. We have since launched new products and capabilities to modernize, optimize and transform Adabas & Natural applications. We will share the next level of innovation to build modern applications based on API-centric, event-driven and hybrid cloud architectures – bringing your most
    valuable business logic and data to the next level.

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  • 10:00-10:30 Clustering strategy delivers competitive advantage

    📍Rooms Lotus/Jasmin/Lemon, 1st Floor

    When a potential customer makes a request online, they expect an instant response; anything less they may walk away—that’s business lost. Hear how Motus Car Rental used clustering to deliver customer quotes at lightning speed and excel at meeting partner SLAs--ensuring fast, reliable service.

    Speaker:

    • Koketso Mannya, Sr. Manager Core Systems Development, Motus Car Rental
  • 10:30-11:00 Coffee Break & Networking
    📍Foyer, 1st Floor
  • 11:00-11:40 The strategic importance of the mainframe and modernization

    📍Rooms Lotus/Jasmin/Lemon, 1st Floor

    Investing in the mainframe is strategic for NEXT as the majority of its operating systems - warehouses, point of sale, website, product and data - are written in-house and run on IBM Z. Chris shares how important the mainframe and the modernisation strategy is to growth for the coming 5 years. Sean will address the challenges and success of implementing Adabas Clustering.

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  • 11:40-12:10 How to perfectly run Adabas & Natural on Linux

    📍Rooms Lotus/Jasmin/Lemon, 1st Floor

    Drawing on decades of open systems expertise, Hentie shares best practices, critical lessons learned, and common pitfalls to avoid when running Adabas & Natural in Linux environments. This session goes beyond theory—practical guidance on what works, what doesn’t, and what to  consider before you take the leap are based on real customer projects. This session will leave you with actionable insights to ensure a smooth and performant Adabas & Natural experience on Linux.

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  • 12:10-12:40 Data as a Competitive Advantage: A Key Success Factor in the Age of Generative AI

    📍Rooms Lotus/Jasmin/Lemon, 1st Floor

    Generative AI is transforming business models and IT landscapes—but its greatest potential can only be realized with the right data. This presentation explores why data is now the true competitive advantage: when it is sovereignly managed, delivered in real time, semantically enriched, and made AI-ready. It discusses the challenges and strategies involved in dealing with legacy systems, new architectures, and the provisioning of data for AI applications—from RAGs to AI agents.

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  • 12:40-14:00 Lunch
    📍Hotel Restaurant, Ground Floor
  • 14:00-14:30 It's simply Natural

    📍Rooms Lotus/Jasmin/Lemon, 1st Floor

    Discover how we are making Natural simpler to use with every release. Discover what features are coming in the 2025 release and the strategic priorities for the October 2026 Roadmap. Explore exciting innovations in API  enablement, Message Queue (MQ) integration, Visual Studio Code (VSC) support and AI-powered capabilities.

    Speaker:

    • Eli Cohen, Sr Director Product Management,
      Software AG

     

  • 14:30-15:00 Build fast with Natural AI Code Assistant

    📍Rooms Lotus/Jasmin/Lemon, 1st Floor

    Discover the powerful capabilities of the Natural AI Code Assistant and explore how it can streamline your  development workflow. You'll learn how this intelligent tool empowers developers to build Natural Applications faster and with greater confidence. We’ll demo how it provides real-time assistance and seamless integration. Finally, we'll share our vision for how AI Code Assistant can enhance  your development experience.

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  • 15:00-15:30 Green screens, white hair & blue bank colors: Leumi’s journey from Terminal to IDE

    📍Rooms Lotus/Jasmin/Lemon, 1st Floor

    From green screens to a full IDE, Bank Leumi modernized their Natural development by transitioning from traditional host-based workflows to modern tools like NaturalONE  and Git—empowering its developers more features and a smoother experience. Hear how the team overcame  cultural challenges and convinced veteran developers that NaturalONE isn’t just “N-SPF with a mouse.”

    Whether you’re just starting your own transformation or are deep in the weeds, this talk offers practical takeaways and an honest, relatable look at Natural development in the 21st century.

    Speaker:

    Run Asulin, Head of Chief Programmer Division, Bank Leumi

  • 15:30-16:00 Coffee Break & Networking
    📍Foyer, 1st Floor
  • 16:00-16:30 Development interface evolution using NaturalONE

    📍Rooms Lotus/Jasmin/Lemon, 1st Floor

    Listen to Nilson Nicolau from Banco do Brasil as he  presents the journey of modernizing their development environment — transitioning from the traditional 3270 interface to the modern IDE NaturalONE.

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  • 16:30-17:00 NaturalONE accelerates innovation at Tryg

    📍Rooms Lotus/Jasmin/Lemon, 1st Floor

    Discover how Tryg’s renewed focus on its core Adabas & Natural application opened fresh opportunities for innovation for its insurance application and development processes. Leveraging the latest capabilities of NaturalONE, Tryg is enhancing their development platform and reintroducing best practices like automated testing. Jesper Orland will share the approach, key learnings, and how this unexpected shift became a catalyst for modernization.

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  • 17:00-17:05 Wrap-up Day 1
    📍Rooms Lotus/Jasmin/Lemon, 1st Floor
Agenda
Thursday, July 10
  • 9:00-9:30 Explore the road ahead for CONNX

    📍Rooms Lotus/Jasmin/Lemon, 1st Floor

    Join us for a look into what’s new for CONNX data integration. We will explore the newest features and get a view into the innovations coming in 2025-2026. Plus, don’t miss an exclusive sneak peek at “CONNX for Kafka” — a powerful new capability designed to take your data
    integration to the next level.

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  • 9:30-10:00 Large-scale data access delivers quick results

    📍Rooms Lotus/Jasmin/Lemon, 1st Floor

    Merkur needed a quick solution to automatically process insurance proposals to insurance contracts to scale the business. Faced with limited Natural resources but an abundance of under-utilized Java resources, Merkur looked  at the Adabas SQL Gateway (CONNX) to deliver results. By  providing large-scale, read-write capabilities to Adabas data in the production environment, CONNX unlocked the key  data needed to support automations facilitated by new  Java applications. Today, several new applications (e.g.,  Identity Access Management, customer portal) also use  CONNX to access Adabas data and more projects are in  development.

    Speaker:

    • Martin Walzl, Database Administrator, Merkur Versicherung AG
  • 10:00-10:30 The next evolution of Adabas

    📍Rooms Lotus/Jasmin/Lemon, 1st Floor

    Discover what’s new and planned for Adabas for z/OS and Adabas for Linux & Cloud, including Adabas Manager. See the latest improvements for Adabas Auditing for z/OS and Adabas Cluster for Linux.  Learn how Adabas for Linux and the Adabas Manager will evolve. Get a look at innovations on the Adabas Roadmaps 2025 and beyond.

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  • 10:30-11:00 Coffee Break & Networking
    📍Foyer, 1st Floor
  • 11:00-11:30 ML-based anomaly detection and sensitive data protection

    📍Rooms Lotus/Jasmin/Lemon, 1st Floor

    Learn how machine learning-driven anomaly detection and access policy enforcement system protects sensitive data in databases, including Adabas, by identifying unauthorized behavior, enforcing privacy, and improving response time to threats.  The use cases include: (1) unusual access patterns, (2) query injection detection, (3) time-based access anomalies, (4) privilege misuse, and (5) data exfiltration risks.

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  • 11:30-12:00 Unlocking the Cloud Potential of Adabas & Natural: It's So Easy!

    📍Rooms Lotus/Jasmin/Lemon, 1st Floor

    This presentation covers migrating Adabas & Natural to the  cloud, focusing on scalability, availability, and  efficiency. It highlights Key focus areas using cloud  blueprints for stable, high-availability deployments,  Infrastructure as Code with Terraform, and deploying  containerized workloads on Kubernetes. Attendees will  learn strategies for modernizing legacy systems, leveraging  cloud services, and achieving cost savings. Allowing a  seamless cloud transition that modernizes legacy systems  while preserving core business logic.

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  • 12:00-12:30 Journey to the Cloud - Lessons Learned and Best Practices

    📍Rooms Lotus/Jasmin/Lemon, 1st Floor

    This session chronicles a real-world transformational journey of taking Adabas & Natural systems to the cloud. Get practical insights and hard-won lessons from the production experience.

    Speaker:

    • Chris Williams, Principal Cloud Engineer, Driver and Vehicle Licensing
  • 12:30-13:00 Free up mainframe resources for innovation with Jopaz

    📍Rooms Lotus/Jasmin/Lemon, 1st Floor

    Mission-critical workloads on IBM Z continue to grow,  driving up capacity demands and associated costs. Jopaz  helps enterprises significantly reduce COBOL batch  workload—without modifying existing source code or  migrating data. By modernizing workload processing, Jopaz frees up budget and computing resources so you can  pursue new innovations.   

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  • 13:00 Closing

    📍Rooms Lotus/Jasmin/Lemon, 1st Floor

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  • 13:00-14:00 Farewell Lunch
    📍Hotel Restaurant, Ground Floor

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