‘Big Iron’ Magnets Big Investment

9 years ago

Software AG deepens partnership with OTech; OTech to drive greater citizen engagement with State systems

Software AG has confirmed further investment by the California Department of Technology’s Office of Technology Services (OTech) in Software AG’s Adabas and Natural application modernization platform.

The California Information Technology Strategic Plan 2015 Update encourages state agencies to “colloborate across agency lines, to consider mobile and cloud technologies first, and to focus on the impact to consumers in evaluating their technology investments.” OTech chose Software AG’s Event Replicator for Adabas to facilitate getting information from the billions of transactions running every week through Adabas-Natural applications to the right person by providing real-time change data capture.

Additionally, OTech selected Software AG’s EntireX to enable multiple agencies to create new high-value business services quickly by reusing existing application functions in their service-oriented architecture (SOA). EntireX will also connect OTech’s core applications quickly and bi-directionally to integrate their mainframe assets into process applications.

Davood Ghods, Chief of the California Department of Technology’s Office of Technology Services, said: “We needed a system in place that serves up ‘one source of truth’ turning our data into knowledge that our State citizens and workers can use confidently. It all boils down to this – we want to increase citizen engagement with the State through a wider deployment that improves public safety, health and education.”

Joe Gentry, senior vice president and general manager, Mainframe Business Unit, Software AG, said:“Many California agencies, such as state hospitals and CALSTRS, have been using our systems for more than thirty years and have evolved from green screen applications in the early days to Web and Service based applications. All successfully supported in a secure, high-performance environment and without the risks associated with ‘rip and replace’ projects.”