Case Study: Nissan Europe achieves 100% performance gain and timely made-to-order delivery with Software AG performance tools

Performance tools put auto manufacturer on the road to more efficient operations

Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., one of the world’s largest automakers with a major UK plant, needed to scale IT to support a shift to made‑to‑order vehicles. Years of reliance on Software AG’s Adabas and Natural left the company facing database bottlenecks and weekly backup downtime that hurt user productivity and threatened its ability to respond quickly to customized customer orders.

Nissan implemented Software AG performance tools—Natural Optimizer Compiler, Adabas Fastpath and Adabas Delta Save—to optimize applications, reduce processing time and offload repetitive data access to a cache. The result: elimination of weekly database downtime (a 100% performance gain), an estimated 30% run‑time improvement for key data files, avoidance of costly mainframe upgrades, and the ability to deliver made‑to‑order cars more quickly and cost‑effectively.

Nissan Europe

Ian Porter

IT Planning Section Manager