Natural Conference 2006

Tuesday, October 17, 2006

7:30-9:00 / Continental Breakfast, Grand Ballroom A&B
7:30-9:00 / General Registration, Registration Area
9:00-10:30 / Natural 4 Fundamentals
Jim Wisdom
Boston University
Half Day Session / Building Web Applications using Natural, XML and Web Services
Jacques Rossouw
Software AG
Half Day Session / Back to ADABAS Basics
James Poole
EDS
Full Day Session / What it means to be a Database Administrator
Dieter Storr
L A Times
Half Day Session / EntireX Communicator- Creating Web Services
David Hupp
Software AG
Half Day Session / Natural for Open Systems and Single Point of Development (SPoD)
Hubert Kwasniok
Software AG R&D
Half Day Session
Tu1 – Columbus B / Tu2 - Washington / Tu3 - Columbus C / Tu4 – Columbus A / Tu5 – Riverview A / Tu6
10:30-10:45 / Morning Break, Grand Ballroom Foyer
10:45-12:15 / Natural 4 Fundamentals
continued from Tu1 / Building Web Applications using Natural, XML and Web Services
Continued from Tu2 / Back to ADABAS Basics
continued from Tu3 / What it means to be a Database Administrator
continued from Tu4 / EntireX Communicator-
Creating Web Services continued from Tu5 / Natural for Open Systems and Single Point of Development (SPoD)
Continues from Tu6
Tu7 – Columbus B / Tu8 - Washington / Tu9 - Columbus C / Tu10 – Columbus A / Tu11 – Riverview A / Tu12
12:15-1:30 / Luncheon, Grand Ballroom A&B
1:30-3:00 / Natural Programming Structures & the power of EXAMINE, COMPRESS and SEPARATE
Steve Robinson
SLRobinson & Associates, Inc
Half Day Session / Natural RPC
Jacques Rossouw
Software AG
Half Day Session / ADABAS Basics with a Touch of V8
James Poole
EDS
Full Day Session / What it means to be a Natural/Natural Security Administrator
Darrell Davenport, Washington State University
Half Day Session / EntireX Communicator- Broker Services and Security
David Hupp
Software AG
Half Day Session / Natural Business Services for Construct Users
Mark Barnard
Software AG
Half Day Session
Tu13 – Columbus B / Tu14 - Washington / Tu15 - Columbus C / Tu16 – Columbus A / Tu17 – Riverview A / Tu18
3:00-3:15 / Afternoon Break, Grand Ballroom Foyer
3:15-4:45 / Natural Programming Structures & the power of EXAMINE, COMPRESS and SEPARATE
Steve Robinson
SLRobinson & Associates, Inc
continued from Tu13 / Natural RPC
continued from Tu14 / ADABAS Basics with a Touch of V8
continued from Tu15 / What it means to be a Natural/Natural Security Administrator
continued from Tu16 / EntireX Communicator- Broker Services and Security
continued Tu17 / Natural Business Services for Construct Users
Continues from Tu18
Tu19 – Columbus B / Tu20 - Washington / Tu21 - Columbus C / Tu22 – Columbus A / Tu23 – Riverview A / Tu24
4:00-7:00 / Welcome to the 2006 Exhibition Hall Wine & Cheese Happy Hour; Cash Bar – Exhibition Hall, Grand Ballroom C&D
6:00-7:00 / Conference Registration – Registration Area
7:00-10:00 / The Natural Conference Committee presents Natural Conference Welcoming Buffet - Grand Ballroom

Wednesday, October 18, 2006

7:30-9:00 / Continental Breakfast - Grand Ballroom A&B
7:30-9:00 / General Registration, Registration Area
7:45-8:00 / Welcome Message, General Announcements - Conference Committee Chairperson
8:00-8:30 / Message from SAGGROUP Executive Committee - SAGGROUP President, Brian Johnson
8:30-10:00 / The Software AG and ETS Vision & Product Strategy - Joe Gentry, VP Enterprise Transaction Systems - Software AG
Grand Ballroom A&B
10:00-10:15 / Morning Break, Grand Ballroom C&D (Exhibition Hall) & Foyer
ADABAS /
Natural Connectivity /
Natural Training Track / Natural Developer Assessment Program /
Natural 6 /
Applications /
Partners Track
10:15-11:30 / ADABAS Vision and Product Strategy
Bruce Beaman
Software AG / Tamino: Getting there
Curtis Pew
University of Texas at Austin / Invoking Natural Objects
Dennis Hamilton
Meristem Systems
WH&O International / 10:30-11:30
Natural Developer
Assessment Program
Testing Session / Legacy Modernization Strategy – Portfolio Overview
Karlheinz Kronauer
Software AG / Refreshing the Test Environment from Production Weekly
Richard Bartkus
BAX Global / BPM & SOA – Bringing People, Processes & Systems Together
Patti Jefferies
Software AG
W1 – Columbus A / W2 – Riverview C / W3 – Riverview A / Riverview B / W4 – Columbus B / W5 – Washington / W6 – Columbus C
11:30-12:45 / Lunch, Grand Ballroom A&B
12:45-2:00 / CENTRASITE: Using an SOA to Maximize the Value of Your Legacy Applications
Bjöern Brauel
Software AG / EntireX Communicator- Troubleshooting the EntireX Environment
David Hupp
Software AG / Batch Topics
Ralph Zbrog
Len Consulting/ZZUtils / 1:00-2:00
Natural Developer
Assessment Program
Testing Session / Natural 6
Steve Robinson
SLRobinson & Associates, Inc / Building new SOA and AJAX-Based Business Applications (Natural Business Services & Application Composer & Designer)
Mark Barnard
R&D, Software AG / Faster Sorting, Manipulation, Reporting & Test Data -Speed High Volume File Processing In/Outside Natural
David Friedman
CoSORT/IRI, Inc.
W7 – Columbus A / W8 – Riverview C / W9 – Riverview A / Riverview B / W10 – Columbus B / W11 – Washington / W12 – Columbus C
2:00-2:15 / Early Afternoon Break, Grand Ballroom C&D (Exhibition Hall) & Foyer
2:15-3:30 / Implementing Business Intelligence (BI) against ADABAS Using SQL Gateway
Patrick Gould
Software AG / Empowering Campus Communication:
The UT Austin Group E-mail System
Tim Chamberlain
Deanna Bearden
University of Texas at Austin / Windows & Maps
Dennis Hamilton
Meristem Systems
WH&O International / 2:30-3:30
Natural Developer
Assessment Program
Testing Session / Natural Administration
Issues for Unix / Linux
/ Windows
Hubert Kwasniok
R&D, Software AG / EntireX Communicator- More Than Just Broker
David Hupp
Software AG / The SOA Gateway –
Securely Connecting
the Old and the New
John Power
Risaris Limited
W13 – Columbus A / W14 – Riverview C / W15 – Riverview A / W16 – Columbus B / W17 – Washington / W18 – Columbus C
3:30-3:45 / Late Afternoon Break, Grand Ballroom C&D (Exhibition Hall) & Foyer
3:45-5:00 / Everything you Wanted to Know about Sx
Jim Poole
EDS / Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) - What is it?
John Power
Risaris Limited / Event Replicator for ADABAS: Off-the-Shelf Real-Time Data Replication - Part I, the Software AG story
Becky Albin
Eric Wood
Software AG / It’s not too late!
If you’d like to register
for an Assessment,
please stop by USS Olympia to sign up. / Getting Up to Speed with Natural for Windows
Ralph Zbrog
LEN Consulting/ZZUtils / Increasing Productivity with Natural for Eclipse
Karlheinz Kronauer
Software AG
Arne Gerhard
InnoWake / Mainframe to Unix Success Stories!
David Gahring
Tetrad Solutions, Inc.
Sophia Cowan
FCCSC
W19 – Columbus A / W20 – Riverview C / W21 – Riverview A / Riverview B / W22 – Columbus B / W23 – Washington / W24 – Columbus C
4:00-6:00 / Exhibition Hall Open - Wine & Cheese – Grand Ballroom C&D (Exhibition Hall) & Foyer
6:15-10:00 / Evening Event at the National Constitution Center
Trolleys begins pick-up at 6:15 for the 15 minute trip to the National Constitution Center

Thursday, October 19, 2006

7:30-9:00 / Continental Breakfast – Grand Ballroom A&B
8:00-8:30 / Welcome Message, General Announcements - James T. Wisdom, Conference Committee Chairperson
8:30-9:00 / Change Enhancement Process, Chris Walsh, SAGGROUP North American Area Representative
9:00-10:00 / Natural Vision and Product Strategy - Karlheinz Kronauer, Natural Product Marketing Manager - Software AG
Grand Ballroom A&B
10:00-10:15 / Morning Break, Grand Ballroom C&D (Exhibition Hall) & Foyer
ADABAS /
Natural Connectivity /
Natural Training / Natural Developer Assessment Program /
Natural /
Applications /
Partner Track
10:15-11:30 / Adding Value to ADABAS - FastPath, Vista, Delta Save & Cluster Services
Bruce Beaman Software AG / From Data to Business Information: the Crossvision SOA Suite
Ivo Totev
Software AG / Natural Utilitiesand Commands – Online and Batch Execution
Darrell Davenport
Washington State University / 10:30-11:30
Natural Developer
Assessment Program
Testing Session / Natural V4.2 for the Mainframe
Andreas Scheutz
Software AG / Implementing a standard SOA -
Intro to the standards
John Power
Risaris Limited / Presentation Title
Chris Bradley
NatWorks
Th1 – Columbus A / Th2 – Riverview C / Th3 – Riverview A / Riverview B / Th4 – Columbus B / Th5 – Washington / Th6 – Columbus C
11:30-12:30 / Lunch, Grand Ballroom A&B
12:30-1:30 / Visit the Exhibition Hall & SAG Partners / ADABAS
Roundtable
Jim Poole,
Moderator / EntireX
Roundtable
Andy Engels
Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund
Th7 – Columbus A / Th8 – Columbus C
1:30-2:45 / Natural ADABAS Database Access Performance Tips
Jim Bando,Software AG / Developing Natural with Eclipse
Arne Gerhard
innoWake / Debugging Natural Programs
Jean Chamberlin
Penn State University / 1:30-2:30
Natural Developer
Assessment Program
Testing Session / Natural 6.2 for Open Systems
Hubert Kwasniok
Software AG, R&D / Connecting Sarbanes to Oxley
Faye Windhorst
Landauer, Inc. / Presentation Title
Rex Bowe
DataDirect, Inc.
Th9 – Columbus A / Th10 – Riverview C / Th11 – Riverview A / Riverview B / Th12 – Columbus / Th13 – Washington / Th14 – Columbus C
2:45-3:00 / Afternoon Break, Grand Ballroom C&D (Exhibition Hall) & Foyer
3:00-4:15 / How VISTA is Used at Morgan Stanley
Malcoln Chimes
Morgan Stanley / Employee Empowerment - Payroll What Ifs on the Web
David Wimberly
University of Arkansas / Terminal Commands,Session Parameters and System Variables
James T. Wisdom
Boston University / 3:00-4:00
Natural Developer
Assessment Program
Testing Session / EntireX from a User Perspective
Wayne Campos
First American Real Estate / Application Reengineering Effort Pays Big Dividends in eServices
David Love
California Board of Equalization / How to Do Anything in Windows from Natural
Chad Scott
Federated Co-operatives, Ltd.
Th15 – Columbus A / Th16 – Riverview C / Th17 – Riverview A / Riverview B / Th18 – Columbus B / Th19 – Washington / Th20 – Columbus C
4:15-4:30 / Late Afternoon Break,Grand Ballroom C&D (Exhibition Hall) & Foyer
4:30-5:45 / ADABAS Recovery using "fast backup" software
Rich Crumley
Keene, Inc. / (ADABAS) Security in the 21st Century
Brian Johnson
Eaton Corporation / Natural exits, including USR Modules, SYSMAIN Exits, LOGON Exits, NATSEC Exits.
Wayne Campos
First American Real Estate / It’s not too late!
If you’d like to register
for an Assessment,
please stop by USS Olympia to sign up. / XREF, ADA-REF, & Code Listings on the Web: A Top Shelf Toolkit for a First Class University
Steve Rung
University of Texas - Austin / Can What Your CIO Doesn’t Know Be Hidden by Web Services?
Phil Hawkins
Penn State University / Natural Education, Consulting and Software
Steve Robinson
SLRobinson & Associates, Inc.
Th21 – Columbus A / Th22 – Riverview C / Th23 – Columbus B / Riverview B / Th24 – Riverview A / Th25 – Washington / Th26 – Columbus C
4:00-7:00 / Exhibition Hall Open
5:15-7:00 / Wine & Cheese – Grand Ballroom C&D (Exhibition Hall) & Foyer

Friday, October 20, 2006

7:30-9:00 / Continental Breakfast – Grand Ballroom A&B
7:45-8:15 / General Announcements & Presentations
Conference Committee Chairperson
ADABAS /
Natural Connectivity /
Natural Training Track / Natural Developer Assessment Program /
Natural /
Applications /
Partner Track
8:30-9:45 / ADABAS V8 for the Mainframe, ADABAS V5 for Open Systems and the ADABAS Manager
Becky Albin
Software AG / XMLIT - Using the COM-PLETE http server to deploy Web Services in an SOA Architecture
Pasquale Ioccola
Ken Maxwell
Commonwealth of Massachusetts / Natural TnT and
Roundtable
Darrell Davenport
Washington State University
James Wisdom
Boston University / 9:00-10:00
Natural Developer
Assessment Program
Testing Session / Creating Plugins to Extend Natural Studio
Chad Scott
Federated Co-operatives, Ltd / ADABAS Multifetch,
In and Out of Natural
Jim Poole
EDS / A Future Proof Software Architecture with SOA and MDA and Successful Way to Get There
Arne Gerhard
InnoWake
F1 – Riverview C / F2 – Riverview A / F3 – Columbus C / Riverview B / F4 – Columbus B / F5 – Washington / F6 – Columbus C
10:00-11:00 / Morning Break – Grand Ballroom C&D – Exhibition Hall & Foyer
Visit Software AG Partners in the Exhibition Hall / ADABAS Natural
Developer Community
Roundtable
Stephen Wild
Software AG
9:45 – Columbus C
11:00-12:15 / Data Replication with SQL
Andy Engels
Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund / Natural Engineer - Refactoring: From Monolithic Applications to Service-Oriented Application
Karlheinz Kronauer
Brian James, R&D
Software AG / Natural Monitoring and Productivity Tools
Jim Bando
Software AG / It’s not too late!
If you’d like to register
for an Assessment,
please stop by USS Olympia to sign up. / Natural Mainframe Internals
Andreas Schuetz
Software AG / ApplinX Helps You Fry Bigger Fish: Legacy Modernization and Integration
Rod Carlson
Software AG / How We Cut Costs by Implementing ADABAS Vista
Ilan Hirschowitz
SPL Software
F7 – Columbus B / F8 – Riverview C / F9 – Riverview A / F10 – Columbus C / F11 – Washington / F12 – Columbus A
12:15-1:15 / Lunch, Grand Ballroom A&B
1:15-2:30 / ADABAS Transaction Manager - Back to the Future
Bernd Bohne
Sparda-Datenver-arbeitung eG / Using Application Designer & Application Composer to Create New Business Services
Bjöern Mueller
Software AG / Natural Programming for Mainframe and Windows
Ralph Zbrog
LEN Consulting/ZZ Utils / 1:30-2:30
Natural Developer
Assessment Program
Testing Session / The ins/outs of SYSOBJH and Defining Utility Profiles to Natural Security
Andy Engels
Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund / Natural Mainframe Version 4.2 - Installation and Administration
Hans-Georg Saftig
Software AG / What's New with EntireX Communicator 7.3
Rolf Bahlke
SAG EntireX Product Architect
F13 – Columbus C / F14 – Riverview C / F15 – Riverview A / Riverview B / F16 – Columbus B / F17 – Washington / F18 – Columbus C
2:30-2:45 / Afternoon Break, Grand Ballroom C&D (Exhibition Hall) & Foyer
2:45-4:00 / Little Known ADABAS Features - ADAM files, multi-client, Hyper-DE
Dieter Storr
L A Times / Natural for DB2
Darrell Skildum
Software AG / PREDICT SETS and L X Commands
James Wisdom
Boston University / 3:00-4:00
Natural Developer
Assessment Program
Testing Session / Change Management for the Natural Environment (PAC)
Jim Bando
Software AG / Natural 2006/Studio
Roundtable
Ralph Zbrog
Chad Scott / Transitioning Natural Application Development for Flexible Implementations
Tom Philpott
Generation Systems
F19 – Columbus C / F20 – Riverview C / F21 – Riverview A / Riverview B / F22 – Columbus B / F23 – Washington / F24 – Columbus C
3:00 / Exhibition Hall Breakdown

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