"I would say the one thing I took away from the Natural Conference - that helped IMRF the most - was learning about the new NAT Multifetch syntax. That one item alone was a major piece of the 40 hours we trimmed off a batch job. And, that batch job optimization prevented a very expensive (>$100,000) CPU ugrade. So, for roughly $5,000 to send 3 people, we easily saved $100,000. That is excellent ROI! Works for me..." Andy Engels, IMRF

     Join us this summer
     from August 17 - 20, 2008
     at the Hyatt Regency
     Hotel in Cambridge, Ma.

"The Natural Users Conference is a great place to lobby for product improvements, face to face time with Software AG development. A case in point was a few years ago a lengthy discussion on the internals of the Adabas Format Pool and some of the performance deficiencies led to a performance fix/zap within a few months after the conference."
Jim Poole, Verizon Business

Welcome to the 15th Natural Conference

Education, networking and a chance to go "ONE ON ONE" with our industry leaders…all for one reasonable price!

What is the Natural Conference?

For whom is the Natural Conference?

The Natural Conference is designed for Software AG clients. The sequence of short seminars will fill in the gaps of knowledge for all technical levels from beginner to seasoned veteran - working with Natural, Adabas, EntireX and other related products. Roundtable discussion groups facilitate dialogue amongst customers who share their expertise with each other and attending Software AG technology experts.

Why should I attend?

• Hear customer experiences on how they are maximizing their Adabas and Natural investments in today's world of Open Systems, Data Warehousing and the Internet.
• Meet vendors who are working with Software AG clients to successfully deliver information using technologies of today and tomorrow.
• Hear about successful migration and expansion across technologies and platforms!
• Learn from key Software AG staff how to OPTIMIZE developer productivity and application performance, EXTEND applications to the Web, mobile devices and other applications and channels, and MANAGE systems through migration and re-engineering services.

The Natural Conference has grown and now includes numerous presentations and learning opportunities on Adabas, Natural, EntireX, Web-enablement, SOA, SPoD, and application & data integration to name a few. We are also having presentations on facing change in a world with a landscape constantly changing. To accommodate this expansion, along with the focused four training tracks there will be 2 additional exciting presentation tracks.

The Conference Highlights

1). A set of Natural for Unix training seminars.

2). Discussions on high performance of Adabas V8 and Natural V4 and Natural V6 and how to achieve it.

3). A Software AG and user presentations on what some consider the hottest product for Application Development and deployment in the Software AG offering - Natural for Ajax.

4). Roundtable discussions led by expert users discussing the current and future states of the core products. This is often attended by Software AG devleopment and they come with open ears. Changes to the Software has occurred coming from information gleaned from these discussions.

5). The offering of an 'SQL for Dummies' seminar for programmers who want and need to know nore about SQL.

6). A presentation on the new product 'The Natural SQL Gateway' that allows mainframe Natural to communicate to any SQL compliant RDBMS.

7). Successful migration stories.

8). Vendors with value added products and services for the Software AG customer community.

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