Adabas, Natural and wM EntireX Product Line Product Roadmap for HP Open VMS Itanium

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Adabas, Natural and wM EntireX Product
LineProduct Roadmap for HP Open VMS Itanium
Wolfgang Weiss Product Management
Adabas Enterprise Transaction Systems
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Service-Oriented Development of Business
Applications
NaturalBusinessServices
SOA and Web Services
Application Designer
Rich Internet Applications

• One tool for any type of application
• High productivity to meet business goals quickly
• Agility to support and extend existing
  environments

Natural for Eclipse
Developer Productivity
Mainframe, Linux, Unix, Windows
Cross-PlatformSupport
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NEW Natural 2006 VersionsSimplify application
development and increase productivity

• New Natural versions Mainframe (4.2), Open
  Systems (6.2)
• Unicode support for developing internationalized
  applications
• Advanced XML processing capabilities
• Electronic document exchange via Web protocols
  (HTTP)
• Directly invoke external Web Services

Example Natural invoking an external Google Web
Service
Unicode Application
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Multi-platform Development and DeploymentNatural
Development Server and Natural for Windows
Natural "Green Screen"

• Increase developer productivity up to 70 by
  moving from Natural green screen to a GUI-based
  development environment
• Unified Windows-based IDE for various Natural
  target platforms
• Simplifies mainframe application development
• Motivates programming teams
• Resource efficient development and testing (local
  and remote)

Natural for Windows
One platform
Cross-platform
Natural Development Server
Mainframe
UNIX, Linux
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Application DesignerBuilding Rich Internet
Applications

• Rich Web Applications without Web coding
• Integrated with Natural via Web Services
• Be up to 10 times faster delivering new Web
  applications
• Provide rich-client features, e.g. drag drop,
  grids, trees
• Based on AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML)

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Natural Business ServicesGenerating Web Services
and SOA Applications

• Faster delivery of new service-oriented
  applications
• Model-driven Web Service generation
• Service repository manages all development and
  runtime artifacts
• Strong security, reliable communication and
  change audits
• Plug-ins for Eclipse and Microsoft Visual Studio

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Natural EngineerImprove application quality with
automated refactoring

• Determines the code quality and application
  complexity
• Automatically creates application inventory,
  reports and technical documentation
• Identifies bad or redundant code
• Improve the code quality and application design
  with automatic code changes and refactoring
• Prepares applications for an multi-tier or
  service-oriented architecture (SOA)

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Natural for EclipseUsing the Eclipse Framework
for Development

• A new Natural development environment based on
  Eclipse
• Extensible IDE framework (open source community)
• Motivates developers to use and learn Natural
• Leveraging the Natural Development Server
  infrastructure
• Runs on Windows and Linux

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Natural Product Line Roadmap for HP OpenVMS
Itanium

• Natural v6.3.3
• In Beta Test since January, 2008
• Planned release June 2008
• Natural Development Server
• In Beta Test since January, 2008
• Planned release June 2008
• Predict v4.5.2
• Beta Test March, 2008
• Planned release June 2008
• Natural Security v6.3.3
• In Beta Test since January, 2008
• Planned release June 2008
• Natural for Ajax
• Planned but not yet scheduled

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High Performance Transactional Database
Adabas Gateways
SQL
SOA and Web Services
EventReplicatorfor Adabas
Event-DrivenDistribution

• Enterprise-wide interoperability
• High productivity for a low TCO
• Any data type, any data volume, any platform

AdabasManager
SystemsManagement
Mainframe, Linux, Unix, Windows
Cross-PlatformSupport
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NEW Adabas 2006 Versions

• New Adabas versions Mainframe (8.1) and Open
  Systems (6.1)
• Manage binary information (large objects)
• Extended data structures (multiple fields,
  periodic groups)
• Flexible handling growing and unpredictable data
  volumes

Adabas

JPEGS

IMAGES
Extended Data Structures
AVI
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Adabas GatewaysConnecting to Reporting tools,
.NET, Java and Web Services
Adabas SOA Gateway
Web Services
XQuery
Adabas
Adabas SQL Gateway
JDBC
ODBC
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Adabas SQL Gateway
Real-time access to Adabas data via SQL reporting
tools such as Crystal Reports, Business Objects,
MS Office, etc. Use ODBC, JDBC, OLE DB or
ADO.NET as programming data access Do federated
queries across heterogeneous DBMSs Move data
down from Adabas to a data warehouse via SQL
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Adabas SOA Gateway
Access Adabas via Web Services Supporting open
standards (HTTP, XML, SOAP, WSDL) Access Adabas
from nearly any platform without any client
installation Develop new Adabas database
applications with Java, .NET or Scripting
languages (e.g. PHP) Eclipse-based tools
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Adabas Manager
Adabas green screen administration

Simplify the administration of distributed and
large database environments Web Browser-based
Administration Compatible with Adabas Mainframe
(7.4) and Open Systems (v5) Supports Adabas
Add-Ons, e.g. Net-Work, Event
Replicator Future platform for all Adabas
monitoring and management features, incl.
add-ons
Web-browser Adabas Manager
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Adabas Product Line Roadmap for HP-OpenVMS
Itanium

• Adabas v5.1
• In Beta Test since October 8, 2007
• No general release
• Adabas v6.1
• Planned Beta Test March 2008
• Planned release June 2008
• Entire Net-Work Server v7.3.2
• Planned release June 2008
• Entire Net-Work Client v1.2.3
• Planned release June 2008
• Adabas SQL Gateway
• Planned but not yet scheduled

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The Software AG Solution
webMethods Application Modernization retains and
extends the value of your investments in core
systems by transforming them into modern and
flexible business applications and processes,
Faster!

• webMethods Application Modernization
• Instant Web Enablement (webMethods ApplinX)
• Comprehensive Application Integration
• User sessions (webMethods ApplinX)
• Transactions events (webMethods EntireX)
• Data (webMethods ConnecX)
• Governance Built-in

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webMethods EntireX - Architecture
Development (Eclipse, MS Visual Studio)
SOA Governance
Natural, COBOL, PL/1, RPG, C CICS, IMS, Batch
Web services
EntireX Engine
z/OS, z/VSE, BS2000, Windows, UNIX, Linux,
z/Linux
webMethodsSuite
RPC /JMS / ACI
RPC / JMS / ACI
Java, .NET
Service
Service
CORBA
Load Balancing
WebSphere MQ
Persistence
z/OS, z/VSE, z/VM, BS2000, System i, OpenVMS,
Unix, Windows, Linux, z/Linux
Management
Security
SAP R/3, SAP NW
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webMethods EntireX Product Line Roadmap for HP
OpenVMS Itanium

• webMethods EntireX
• Planned for 4Q/2008
• EntireX TCP/IP stub will be ported
• More precise schedule to be communicated in
  2Q/2008