A Appendix A. Software AG's Adabas in a Parallel Sysplex environment Note: The text of this Appendix has been provided by Software AG. Software AG has extended Adabas, its mainframe-based database management system, for use with IBM Parallel Sysplex technology. The combination of Adabas with the Parallel Sysplex technology resulted in the add-on product Adabas Cluster Services, which was released in 2001. Worldwide, more than 3000 clients use Adabas. These clients, for example, banking, insurance, administration and logistics organizations, typically have large or very large OLTP (Online Transaction Processing) applications. Adabas is known for its outstanding performance, in particular its ability to process large data volumes without performance degradation, its minimal overhead with respect to system administration, and its high level of stability and reliability (continuous operation, and efficient and reliable error recovery). © Copyright IBM Corp. 2006. All rights reserved. 263