“The most essential requirement the Agency has always put forward is that its IT Department be effective and successful in supporting the Agency in pursuing its statutory objectives. We are the largest paying agency in Europe. During the last 25 years we aided over 2 million beneficiaries with a total …

"The company was also able to take advantage of EDB’s database compatibility for Oracle to migrate a number of applications quickly without having to re-write application code or retrain existing staff."

"We want to move off Oracle to 100% Postgres to consolidate our skill set and products used. With PostgreSQL things just work and are much easier to administer than Oracle including replication. I was also surprised at how robust the query planner and optimizers are compared to Oracle when our …

"The addition of EDB Postgres as a standardized database solution had an immediate and significant impact on our ability to rapidly develop and market a new product, expand in a growing market, and increase revenue for the business unit.”

"With Postgres Plus Advanced Server, we found a solution that not only provided exceptional performance, but made it easy to migrate existing data, and we were better able to control software costs."

"The engineer not only solved my problem but gave me multiple ways that I could do it to help me choose what was right for my environment.”

"The business was still in a startup phase and we could not incur massive costs. That's why we decided to build the middleware as an open source-based product. However, for the database, we were not comfortable with using a completely open source product, because as the heart of the entire …

"The power usage data that is sent in from endpoints like sensors is stored in a database built with Hbase, and then reconciled with endpoint attribute information that is stored in EDB Postgres. Because the entire EMS is rendered unable to function if a delay with EDB Postgres reconciliation processing …

“The content management demands being placed on our customers are increasing, and the processing power of our previous infrastructure could not keep up.”

“When planning our system re-architecture, we explored NoSQL and document store platforms as potential options, but none provided database compatibility that did not require application refactoring."

"Eighty percent of our applications don't have to be rewritten to work on EnterpriseDB."

“Prior to this initiative, the volume of paperwork was so high that our inspectors could spend days analyzing the documents. Both the Authority and the industry itself wanted to find a way to reduce inspection time while increasing the quality of the inspections. That required us to build a completely …

“At one point, we had SAS, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle and BDB all backing various services. We had five databases. That’s not a situation we wanted to be in.”

“We tried Oracle for a few years, but the authentication mechanism wasn’t efficient enough for us.”

“EDB brought in Co-Founder of the PostgreSQL Global Development Group, Bruce Momjian, to help. During this chaotic and critical period, Bruce was in constant contact and able to find a solution to get us back to where we needed to be. Access to that expertise is crucial.”