Software AG today announced the launch of Data Masking for Adabas, a solution created to enable Adabas customers to design and test applications using actual production data that has been altered to ensure the privacy and security of the data itself.

Developers building applications designed to interact with data in Adabas need real data against which to test and refine their applications in test or QA environments. Yet real-world data contains a wealth of highly sensitive information—everything from customer names to credit card numbers to medical records. An organization could extract a snapshot of corporate data from Adabas and preserve its anonymity manually, ensuring that sensitive information has been stripped out and dummy values or text has been inserted. However, that process is time and resource intensive—and subject to human error and oversight.

Data Masking for Adabas automates this transformation process and ensures that potentially sensitive data remains anonymous and secure throughout various Adabas database environments. At the same time, Data Masking for Adabas retains the integrity of the original environment, ensuring that developers can work with data that is sufficiently ‘production-like’ to stand in for actual production data.

“Data Masking for Adabas ensures that organizations can quickly and easily provide developers with the real-world data they need while simultaneously ensuring that data privacy and security remain uncompromised,” said Dr. Wolfram Jost, CTO of Software AG. “Organizations can comply with data protection regulations and market expectations, even as they can reduce the cost and time of application development.”

Organizations that must comply with data protection legislation such as HIPAA, PCI DSS, GLBA and the EU Data Protection Directive can benefit from Data Masking for Adabas. It also allows organizations to avoid public outrage by helping prevent any chance that sensitive data will inadvertently find its way into the public realm due to a development or testing error.

For more information about Data Masking for Adabas go to: http://www.softwareag.com/corporate/products/adabas_2010/compliance/default.asp

About Software AG

With more than 1,000 U.S.-enterprise customers and 800 employees, Software AG's U.S. operation contributes one third of the company's total revenue and is Software AG's largest market presence and R&D location. Software AG has operated nationwide in the U.S. since 1973 through a fully-owned subsidiary, Software AG USA Inc., which is headquartered in Reston, Virginia – also an R&D hub for the company’s core data management and integration technologies. R&D labs for the development of Software AG’s webMethods product suite – offering SOA integration and BPM solutions – include facilities in San José/Silicon Valley, Seattle and Denver. For more information, visit www.softwareag.com/us.

Software AG is the global leader in Business Process Excellence. Our 40 years of innovation include the invention of the first high-performance transactional database, Adabas; the first business process analysis platform, ARIS; and the first B2B server and SOA-based integration platform, webMethods. We offer our customers end-to-end business process management (BPM) solutions delivering low Total-Cost-of-Ownership and high ease of use. Our industry-leading brands, ARIS, webMethods, Adabas, Natural, CentraSite and IDS Scheer Consulting, represent a unique portfolio encompassing: process strategy, design, integration and control; SOA-based integration and data management; process-driven SAP implementation; and strategic process consulting and services.

Software AG had revenues of €1.1 billion in 2011 (IFRS, unaudited) and has more than 5,500 employees serving 10,000 enterprise and public institution customers across 70 countries. Our comprehensive software and services solutions allow companies to continuously achieve their business results faster. The company is headquartered in Germany and listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (TecDAX, ISIN DE 0003304002 / SOW).

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