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EnterpriseDB Sets New Standard for Digital Business with Release of the EDB Postgres Platform 2017BEDFORD, Mass., Feb. 16, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- EnterpriseDB® (EDB™), the database platform company for digital business, today announced the general availability of the EDB Postgres™ Platform 2017. The EDB Postgres Platform is the first integrated open source-based database management platform that brings together all of the components required for managing structured and unstructured data in a single platform. The 2017 version of the platform enables organizations to improve decision-making, explore new revenue opportunities, and boost productivity with better support for advanced analytics and data integration. "EnterpriseDB has set a new standard in digital business by giving enterprises the capabilities, performance, and reliability they need with the flexibility and ease of provisioning required by modern DevOps," said Marc Linster, Ph.D., Senior Vice President, Product Development, EnterpriseDB. "The EDB Postgres Platform 2017 elevates the performance and capabilities of integrated tools designed specifically for high-performance Postgres infrastructures. The result is a more powerful and better-integrated architecture capable of supporting the demanding and complex workloads of today's digital business applications." The new EDB Postgres Platform 2017 features technology enhancements that enable enterprises to:
EDB Postgres: Quantifying Success "Organizations are seeking agile, flexible data management solutions that extract and deliver competitive business value from today's data deluge," said Terri Virnig, IBM Vice President of Power Ecosystem and Strategy. "We believe that the EDB Postgres Platform provides the speed, scale, and reliability needed to help clients advance their digital transformation initiatives, and we're pleased to offer IBM Power Systems as a high-performance server solution to maximize client value." Achieving digital transformation helps organizations realize new levels of data integration and insight. Recent research quantifies the success that organizations can realize by digitally transforming their infrastructures. Harvard Business Review recently outlined in What Companies on the Right Side of the Digital Business Divide Have in Common1 a research initiative that examined 344 enterprises listed on U.S. stock exchanges with a median revenue of $3.4 billion across multiple major industries. Based on three-year averages, digital leaders (the top 25 percent of companies) had 55 percent gross margins compared to 37 percent for digital laggards (the bottom 25 percent of companies). The same pattern held for operating and profit margins. It is clear that companies must overcome any challenges and drive towards becoming digital leaders or face the consequences. The article states: "Our research indicates that these leaders approach the digital opportunity with a different strategic mindset and execute on the opportunity with a different operating model. Data and analytics are obviously key. Leading organizations are more likely to have a comprehensive data acquisition strategy and differentiate themselves from competitors based on their data platform." EDB Postgres: The New Standard for Digital Business In the telecommunications industry, for example, competitive pressures have brought profound change as telecom companies see a non-stop rise in new digital devices and changing business models for delivering services, while traditional voice and messaging products have become commoditized, pushing prices downward. As a result, telecommunications companies have been aggressive in their adoption of open source technologies to modernize operations; find greater efficiencies and flexibility; reduce vendor lock-in to function with greater agility; and cut costs. EnterpriseDB is a partner to many major telecommunications companies worldwide, including one of the largest regional wireless carriers in the United States ("Carrier"). The Carrier launched a corporate initiative to adopt more open source software for many of the same reasons as others in the telecom industry. As its first candidate for an open source-based software solution in the data center, the Carrier chose to migrate a 100TB mission-critical application from its legacy system, Oracle® Exadata, to the EDB Postgres Platform and Cloudera (Hadoop). The migration from Oracle to the EDB Postgres Platform reduced the cost of running the application by several million dollars because it replaced the costly legacy system with the EDB Postgres Platform and Cloudera, both of which are low-cost, open source-based data management solutions. The migration was completed in two weeks with EnterpriseDB managing the project to ensure its rapid success. EDB Postgres: Key Updates
EDB Postgres: Pricing, Availability, and Software Downloads Learn more about the EDB Postgres Platform 2017 during the February 23 webinar Advances in Postgres Set New Digital Business Standard: To get started with the EDB Postgres Platform 2017, download EDB Postgres Advanced Server here or contact [email protected]. About EnterpriseDB® (EDB™) Corporation EnterpriseDB is a registered trademark of EnterpriseDB Corporation. EDB and EDB Postgres are trademarks of EnterpriseDB Corporation. Other trademarks may be trademarks of their respective owners.
1 Robert Brock, Marco Iansiti, and Karim R. Lakhani, What Companies on the Right Side of the Digital Divide Have in Common (Harv. Bus. Rev., Jan. 31, 2017). To view the original version on PR Newswire, visit:http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/enterprisedb-sets-new-standard-for-digital-business-with-release-of-the-edb-postgres-platform-2017-300408117.html SOURCE EnterpriseDB |