Sierra Pacific User Group

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Bruce Hendrickson, President
County of Sacramento, Office of Communications and Information Technology
hendricksonb@saccounty.net

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Presentations from past SPUG meetings




Spring 2009 User Group Presentations

Wednesday, June 24, 2009 at The Courtyard by Marriott Cal Expo


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Meeting Agenda
     
Natural Application Development & Deployment in a Windows Environment
     Patrick Gould, Software AG
Experiences With The Event Replicator For ADABAS
     Dieter Storr, Storr Consulting, Inc.
Monitoring ADABAS & Natural with webMethods Optimize for Infrastructure
     Mark Braukhoff, Software AG
Natural Engineer 621
     Pete Diestl, Software AG
(This will be a live demonstration. No handouts.)

Our Fall 2008 Meeting Agenda and Presentations

Wednesday, November 19, 2008 at the Doubletree Hotel
SPUG Fall 2008 presentations.zip
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8:00 - 8:30 Registration, continental breakfast and networking
8:30 - 8:35 Opening remarks and User Group business
     Bruce Hendrickson, SPUG President
8:35 - 9:45 What it Means to be a DBA - Best Practices
     Dieter Storr, Storr Consulting, Inc.
9:45 - 10:00 Break
10:00 - 11:00 Natural Studio
     Ralph Zbrog, ZZUtils
11:00 - 12:00 Natural in Batch
     Ralph Zbrog, ZZUtils
12:00 - 1:00 Lunch
1:00 - 2:00 Adabas in 2009: Special Archiving and Encryption Preview
     Becky Albin and Bruce Beaman, Software AG
2:00 - 3:00 Real-time Monitoring for Adabas, Natural and EntireX with webMethods Optimize
     Becky Albin and Bruce Beaman, Software AG
3:00 - 3:15 Break
3:15 - 4:15 ADABAS - All about Caches and Buffers
     Dieter Storr, Storr Consulting, Inc.
4:15 - 4:30 Closing remarks and drawings
     Bruce Hendrickson, SPUG President


Our Spring 2008 Meeting Agenda and Presentations

Tuesday, May 6, 2008 at the Radisson Hotel
SPUG Spring 2008 presentations.zip
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8:00 - 8:30 Registration, continental breakfast and networking
8:30 - 8:45 Opening remarks and User Group business
     Bruce Hendrickson, SPUG President
8:45 - 9:45 ADABAS/Natural: New functionality for Programmers and DBA's
     Becky Albin, Software AG
9:45 - 10:30 Natural for AJAX - End user experience
     Dave Love, California State Board of Equalization
10:30 - 11:45 Adabas/Natural: New functionality for Programmers and DBA's (Continued)
     Becky Albin, Software AG
11:45 - 12:45 Lunch
12:45 - 1:45 Single Click Generation and Deployment for Building Web Services with Natural Business Service
     Patrick Gould, Software AG
1:45 - 2:45 Reach Your Modernization Goals - Faster!
     Mighael Botha, Software AG
2:45 - 3:00 Break
3:00 - 4:15 ADABAS and Disk Usage - is it time to reevaluate?
     Becky Albin, Software AG
4:15 - 4:30 Closing remarks and drawings
     Bruce Hendrickson, SPUG President


Our Fall 2007 Meeting Agenda and Presentations

Monday, October 29, 2007 at the Radisson Hotel
8:00 - 8:30 Registration, continental breakfast and networking
8:30 - 8:45 Opening remarks, User Group business and elections
     Bruce Hendrickson, SPUG President
8:45 - 10:00 Natural Productivity Tips
     Jim Bando, Software AG
10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:00 “The Baby Boomer Exodus: Why the Common View is the Wrong View (and what you can do about it)”
     Jim Fowler, Software AG
11:00 - 12:00 "NATURAL 4 Enhancements - Environmental Changes"
     Jim Bando, Software AG
12:00 - 1:30 Lunch
1:30 - 2:45 "Natural for AJAX"
     Patrick Gould, Software AG
2:45 - 3:00 Break
3:00 - 4:15 "NATURAL 4 Enhancements - Variable Enhancements"
     Jim Bando, Software AG
4:15 - 4:30 Closing remarks and drawings
     Bruce Hendrickson, SPUG President


Our Spring 2007 Meeting Agenda and Presentations

Wednesday, June 6, 2007 at the Radisson Hotel
8:00 - 8:30 Registration, continental breakfast and networking
8:30 - 8:45 Opening Remarks and User Group Business
     Bruce Hendrickson, SPUG President
8:45 - 9:15 Software AG Health Checks
     Mark Combs, Software AG
9:15 - 9:30 Change Enhancement Discussion
     Mike Gilliam, County of Sacramento
9:30 - 11:30 ADABAS 8 Experiences
     James Poole, Verizon
11:30 - 1:00 Lunch
1:00 - 2:00 From Legacy to SOA
     Paul Brayden, Software AG
2:00 - 4:00 Multifetch, in and out of Natural
     James Poole, Verizon
4:00 - 4:30 Closing remarks and drawings
     Bruce Hendrickson, SPUG President


Our Fall 2006 Meeting Agenda and Presentations

Wednesday, November 29, 2006 at Arden Hills Country Club
8:00 - 9:00 Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 9:15 Greetings, User Group Business and Elections
     Bruce Hendrickson, SPUG President
9:15 - 9:30 Software AG News and Updates
     Bill Bunce, Software AG
9:30 - 9:45 Change Enhancement Discussion
     Mike Gilliam, County of Sacramento
9:45 - 10:00 Report from the 2006 Natural Conference
     Mike Gilliam, County of Sacramento
10:00 - 12:00 Experiences with NATURAL 2006
     Steve Robinson, S.L. Robinson & Associates, Inc.
12:00 - 1:00 Lunch
1:00 - 2:00 News from Software AG R&D labs
     Becky Albin, Software AG
2:00 - 3:00 Increasing Productivity with Natural for Eclipse
     alex Burggraf, Software AG
3:00 - 3:15 Closing remarks and drawings
     Bruce Hendrickson, SPUG President
3:30 - 4:30 Natural Developer Assessment Exam
     alex Burggraf, Software AG


Our Spring 2006 Meeting Agenda and Presentations

Thursday, May 4, 2006 at the Radisson Hotel
8:00 - 8:45 Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:45 - 9:00 Greetings and User Group Business
     Bruce Hendrickson, SPUG President
9:00 - 9:30 Software AG News and Updates
     David C. Smith, Software AG
9:30 - 10:30 The Backbridge Project
     Eric Steen, CalPERS
10:30 - 11:30 ADABAS and Natural 2006 Technical Update
     Tom Philpott, Software AG
11:30 - 12:30 Lunch
12:30 - 1:30 Using Software AG Support Services
     Jeannie Goodman, Software AG
1:30 - 2:30 Modernizing your legacy systems with BPM and SOA
     David C. Smith, Software AG
2:30 - 2:45 Break
2:45 - 3:45 Incompatibilities Between Natural Mainframe & Windows
     Ralph G. Zbrog, LEN Consulting, LLC
3:45 - 4:00 Change Enhancement Discussion
     Bruce Hendrickson, SPUG President
4:00 - 4:15 Closing remarks and drawings
     Bruce Hendrickson, SPUG President


From the Fall 2003 Meeting



From the Spring 2003 Meeting



From the Fall 2002 Meeting



From the Spring 2002 Meeting