Software AG (Frankfurt TecDAX: SOW) announced that the California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS), America’s second largest public pension fund and a Software AG customer for more than 20 years, expanded their relationship with the implementation of Software AG’s zIIP Enabler for Natural.

CaISTRS’ START system, which uses Software AG’s Adabas-Natural high performance database, manages teachers’ retirement programs so that disability, retirement and survivor benefits can be provided to 868,000 public school educators and their families. Overall, it has processed close to a billion records.

Mohammad Asghar, Adabas DBA, Business Solutions, CaISTRS, noted: “With minimal effort, we installed zIIP Enabler for Natural to increase our processing capacity, while at the same time reducing cost. zIIP Enabler for Natural requires no changes to the Natural code, saving time on testing and validation – enabling our team to realize savings faster. We recouped our investment faster than planned, realizing ROI in the first five months instead of the expected year. In just eight months, we saved $623,000 in both batch processing and online processing costs.”

zIIP Enabler for Natural is a Low Risk and Low Cost Solution

zIIP Enabler for Natural, a Software AG Transaction Platform, takes advantage of IBM’s specialty processors to lower the total cost of ownership of operating a mainframe. By moving batch workload of Natural from IBM General Purpose Processors (GPPs) to less expensive IBM zIIP processors for execution, zIIP Enabler for Natural provides a low-cost alternative to increasing capacity on existing GPPs.

Most recently, Software AG introduced streaming analytics to help organizations monitor, track and act upon abnormal behavior in their business operations processed by their Adabas-Natural database. This new functionality brings an extra level of security and protection.

Joe Gentry, senior vice president and general manager, Mainframe Business Unit, Software AG, said: “Adabas-Natural continues to be a stalwart ‘workhorse’ platform for organizations requiring high quality database management. Most importantly, with continuous innovations and development, Adabas-Natural is as relevant and critical to IT organizations today as it was when it first arrived on the market. Our long-term partnership with CalSTRS has been a great example of how our technology continues to evolve to meet our customers’ needs.”

About California State Teachers’ Retirement System

The California State Teachers’ Retirement System, with a portfolio valued at $190.8 billion as of February 28, 2015, is the largest educator-only pension fund in the world. CalSTRS administers a hybrid retirement system, consisting of traditional defined benefit, cash balance and voluntary defined contribution plans. CalSTRS also provides disability and survivor benefits. CalSTRS serves California's 879,000 public school educators and their families from the state’s 1,700 school districts, county offices of education and community college districts. Follow us on Twitter @CalSTRS.

About Software AG

Software AG (Frankfurt TecDAX: SOW) helps organizations achieve their business objectives faster. The company's big data, integration and business process technologies enable customers to drive operational efficiency, modernize their systems and optimize processes for smarter decisions and better service. Building on over 40 years of customer-centric innovation, the company is ranked as a leader in 14 market categories, fueled by core product families Adabas-Natural, ARIS, Alfabet, Apama, Terracotta and webMethods. Software AG has more than 4,400 employees in 70 countries and had revenues of €858 million in 2014. Learn more at www.softwareag.com.

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