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ADABAS AND NATURATStatement of Direct ion

IHE FUTURE OF ADABAS AND NATURATInnovations that grow with your business

For more than three decades. comDanies around the world havebui l t and run their mission-cr i t ical appl icat ions on Adabas andNatural. As the world and technology has evolved, Software AGhas continuously added products and capabil it ies to keep your

core business applications flexible to grow and change withyour business. Software AG's vision for Adabas ard Naturalaims to help you achieve your goals and plan for the future byensur ing the long-term viabi l i ty , adaptabi l i ty , and af fordabi l i tyof your core appl icat ions.

This requires helping you transi t ion mission cr i t ical ski l ls f romthe current workforce to the rext generation by ensuringAdabas and Natural are easy to use and appealing to new users.Future viabil ity wil l continue to depend on increased applicationinteroperabi l i ty wi th new technologies and evolut ionaryconcepts such as Service Oriented Architectures (S0A), BusinessProcess Management (BPM) and Governance. Simplifying thedevelopment and management process through automation

will drive down costs and increase efficiency and transparencyof the system lifecycle and day-to-day operations.

Guided by this vision, Software AG will deliver ongoing product

innovations that wil l ensure the steadfast growth and readiness

of your Adabas and Natural systems. The key principles drivingnew product development are:

. Ease of Use

. Interoperabil ity

. Efficiency and Transparency

Ihis Statement of Direction" outl ines the product visionand strategy for Adabas and Natural. lt provides you insightinto how Software AG anticipates your future needs anddemonstrales that your investment in Adabas and Natural wi l lcontinue to suppo.t your business growth now and intothe future.

Transferring skil ls to the nextgenerat ion to meet the chal lengesand growth of the future.

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Who is Software AG?

For over 40 years, we've been inventing new andbetter ways to help organizations achieve businessresults faster.

ARlS - Integrated software for continuous process

transformation and imorovement

CENTRASIIE - The first standards-based S0Areg istry/repository

ADABAS - The world's most comprehensivedata maragement system

NAIURAL - Highly productive applicationdevelopment and deployment environment

WEBMETH0DS - The world's leading integrated50A and BPM surte

Why Soltware AG?

PLAIFORM INDEPENDENI - Our vendor.neutralplatform helps you leverage your current softwareiavestments-and empower them to deliver theresults you always wanted.

FAST RESULTS - 0ut-of-the-box functionality andopen, standards-based solutions help you achieveROl months and even years ahead of the industryaverage. Read more about our rustomer successesat www.softwareag.com/customers.

AS GL0BAL AS Y0UR BUSINESS - We have 65+global business and technology partners, 1 0,000customers in 70 countries and are one of the 25

largest enterprise software vendors in the world.

STABILITY - 0ur revenue growth and profitabil ity

are enviable within our industry-Software AG'srevenue has more than doubled within the past

five years.

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EASE OF UsEEliminating the skills shortage debate

The developmenl, test and management of appl icat ions anddatabases deployed in cross-platform and large-scaleenvironments ale often an issue for resource-bound users,developers, and administrators. To compound the issue, a newgeneration of developers and database administrators is beingasked to operate and build on to these mission critical systems.

Among the hurdles of ski l ls t ransference is that some appl icat ionsmay suffer from poor code quality due to years of developmentby different developers and external parties. Software AG isstriving to help you improve that code quality and lower the costof maintenance by providing tools to define code standards andautomatical ly check for compl iance at development.

In some cases, simple user interface improvements can help dr iveresource eff ic iencies and simpl i fy ski l ls t raining. Software AG staysabreast of the latest trends in browser technology and richinternet applications in order to create intuitive, simple userinterfaces that appeal to old and new use.s, developers and DBAs.User intedace improvements to development, administration andmonitoling environments enable stakeholders to manage tasksaccording to their securi ty permissions and more quickly pedormroot-cause analysis.

Natural0Nt in Ecl ipse: Automated functions and the Ecl ipse environmentsimpli fy development and test ing while attract ing the next generationworkforce.

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Coding Standards and Quality Enforcement

. Enforce coding standards and quality withautomated checking lunctions

. Define coding standards (i.e., naming conventions,statement use, comments)

. Coding automatically checked at development

. Quality checking reports link directly to source code

Test Enhancements

. Partially retest modified programs

. Run regressions tests to uncovel erlor-s

. Simulate load for browser-based user interfaces,Natural objects and Web Services

. Test batch applications

Mainframe Application Development Iools

. Develop Mainframe Applications from Eclipse

. DeveloD and maintain C0B0L code

. Edit JCL, control jobs, access PDS member and fi lesand browse Sysout

Database Administration

. Administrat ion and Monitoring in same environment

. custom browser- and role-based portals

. Workpace composition from predefined portals(e.9., calendar, Adabas file list)

. Context aware workplaces with drag and drop capabilitiesfor custom views

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INTEROPERABILITYSeamless integration with BPM, SOA, WEB, Business Intelligence

Whether it's the variety of hardware you operate on, theapplications you interact with or the tools you use to complementyour core applications, interoperability is the key to success.The demand today to make application functionality transparentand available within a 50A for business process automation(e.9., workflow approvals) or composite applications (e.9.,customer single-view) is limitless. Unfortunately, the cost andtime required to expose business logic with standard serviceinterfaces is cumbersome.

Business applications today often contain hundreds of businessrules coded in various styles that are often not well documented.Software AG is developing tools to uncover and record these rulesusing graphical modeling tools and automated detection. Ihroughthe use of graphics, the code for new services and documentationis generated without programming.

Business Intelligence and Data Warehouse environments demandlive opetational data to automate business processes without aeatingdata redundancies. Software AG is working towards a solution toreplicate data from Adabas to these new environments thuseliminating the need for long-running Extract Transform Load (ETL)processes to move data into your analytical systems.

Rule Development with Grcphical User Interface: The graphical design ofapplication logic simplifies the creation and harvesting of business rules andautomatically generates code and documentation. No programming needed.

Advanced Rich User lnterfaces (RlA)

. Embed rich media features with MS Silverlight andAdobe Flash

. Intuitive dashboards with data visualization

. Fast clients for power users and data entry

. Integrated workplaces displaying data and documents(e.9., Filenet, Sharepoint and Documentum) side by side

Application Integration with SOA and BPM

. Develop advanced business services and AJAX webpages with a new Natural code generation engine

. Debug across Natural, RPC server and Web Services

. Register Web Services with metadata from Predict

Business Rule Development

Develop business rules in graphical toolDiscovet tules, conditions, and data structures in existingcode and transfer to business rule development toolGenerate Natural code from business rule definitionsExpose business rules as Web Services or Naturalbusiness services

Data Integration and Data Shadng through Replication

. Replicate from Adabas to data warehouses and businessintelligence environments across multiple platforms

. Replicate data directly to applications or SOA/BPMenvironments via messaging middleware(e.9., JMs, Entirex)

. Enrich reolication data with data from other data sourcesor databases

. Advanced Adabas 5QL connectivity supporting largeobject and sQL data

. Auto-detect changes in Adabas database schemas andautomatically utilize them when accessing Adabas with SQt

EFFICI ENCY AN D TRANSPARENCYThrough automation, testing and monitoring

Software AG recognizes that managing the lifecycle of applicationsand keeping systems operating problem-free are some of themost time consuming tasks in today's world of mixed technologiesand multi-tier architectures. Software AG seeks to drive greaterefficiency by automating tasks and simplifying test and monitoringwherever possible to free up developer and DBA resources.

Software AG is developing a lifecycle management tool that alignsversioning, deployment and configuration management withissue and bug tracking processes. To improve the testing phase ofthe application lifecycle, an automated solution for extracting livedata subsets with data masking is being implemented to protectinformation privacy. These capabilities are criticalto ensuring lTgovernance and transparency.

To ensure lhe greatest efficiency and transparency of your lToperations, Soflware AG envisions an end-to-end monitoring solutionthat can monitor infrastructure, application and business processes.The next generation of monitoring tools for Natulal and Adabaswill address the need for robust diagnostic capabilities that canquickly identify the root cause of a problem and pin-point thelocalion of lhe bottleneck. Measurements against business processesKey Performance Indicators (KPls) and predictive analysis willsupport a complete view of operational behavior and predictperformance problems before they occur.

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Appllcatlon rifeqde mana gement

. 0efine different environments and lilecycle stages

. Automate tnnsitions from development to testto production

. link bug-tncking tools to development

. lntegrate mainframe configuration and changemanagement tools in Eclipse

Apdiotim Performmce Dia gnosis

. Measure performance at the code level

. ldentify test coverage by code segment analysis

. Monitor infrastructure impact on application performance

. Irack key perlormance indicators of business processes

. Monitor response-time and resource usage indistributed environments

Databaie Performanre Dia gnori s

. Browser-based display

. Opemtional statistics and metrics in rich diagramsand reports

. Orilldown into calls and transactions without leavingdiagnostic environment

. Access log and trace files from multiple platforms froma single view

. Automatic database diagnostic alerts (e.9., out of diskspacq, broken network connections)

lllgh Availability

. Adjust buffers dynamically

. Administer database while processing transactions

. Reotganize database incrementally

Se(Ure Data Te3tang

. Create test data with a repeatable.automated solution

. Mask data based on rule knowledgebase

. Extract live data subsets with maskinq

lssuet bugt andrequirements

oefine environmentsand transitions

Policies and permission5

Reporting and audittracking

tilecycle Management: A world of mixed technologies on a multi-tierarchitecture requires a common approach to Lifecycle Management to ensurelT Governance and transDarencv.

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To find the Software AGoffice nearest you, pleasevisit www.softwareag.com

For information onIDS Scheer, please visitwww.ids-scheer.com

About Sottware AG

Software AG is the global leader in Business ProcessExcellence. Our 40 years of innovation include the inventionof the first high-performance transactional database,Adabas; the first business process analysis platform,ARIS; and the first B2B server and SOA-based integrationplatform, webMethods. We are unique in offering theworld's only end-to-end-and easiest to use-businessprocess management (8PM) solutions, with the lowestTotal-cost-of-0wnership.

Our industry-leading brands, ARIS, webMethods, Adabas,Natural and IDS Scheer Consulting, represent a uniqueportfolio for: process strategy, design, integration andcontrol; SOA-based integration and data management;process-driven 5AP implementation; and strategic processconsulting and services. Our comprehensive software andservices solulions allow companies to continuously achievetheir business results faster.

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