[6] GenevaERS is also popular among SAP and other ERP system users, including manufacturing companies, with large databases and significant reporting needs.
In July 2020, IBM contributed the SAFR code base to the Linux Foundation's Open Mainframe Project,.
[8] GenevaERS uses a "single pass" I/O approach and takes advantage of the IBM mainframe's parallelism to create multiple reports concurrently.
The software is CPU-efficient, with an internal capability to execute report queries using generated, high-performance IBM Z assembler code.
IBM continues to offer a commercial version of GenevaERS under the SAFR name which is able to exploit zIIPs Additional GenevaERS performance optimizations include in-memory join processing, either direct access or through a technical called Common Key Buffer joins for very large dimensional tables, piping from one process to another, and Extract-Phrase Record Aggregation] to immediately collapse data for summary outputs.