How ISVs Can Simplify and Enhance Enterprise Cloud Customization
Independent software vendors (ISVs) have their hands full these days. Just staying on top of the features and functions needed to win and retain market share is a full-time job. But simply continuing to put out a competitive and compelling product isn’t the only difficulty facing most ISVs. Many are also confronting challenges ranging from increased competition to rapid technology advancements, changing customer preferences and more. As a result, ISVs must navigate a series of software “white water rapids” to be successful.
The rapid shift to an increasing demand for cloud solutions is one example of the challenges facing ISVs. To stay competitive, they must not only migrate their solutions to the cloud but also select which cloud platforms and databases to support, each requiring significant investments in time, resources, and expertise.
This blog highlights the problems ISVs face when supporting multiple cloud platforms and how traditional approaches to supporting various database solutions on numerous clouds are expensive and time-consuming. Instead, it offers a database alternative for ISVs that’s more open, accessible, enterprise-ready, and which eliminates cloud deployment restrictions for ISVs.
Multi-Cloud Requirements Add Complexity
These days, most ISVs find that customer demands are requiring them to take a more open cloud approach and support multiple cloud platforms, so they have greater flexibility and agility. Customers need solutions that don’t lock them into specific proprietary database solutions.
The problem for ISVs is that trying to support multiple databases across different cloud platforms requires them to rewrite their applications and APIs for each one, significantly increasing both the initial work, as well as ongoing maintenance and support. In addition to all that extra work to port the functionality across platforms, an ISV must invest extra development time integrating with the various cloud platforms for their own dev and testing processes.
An Enterprise-Ready Alternative: Fully Managed Postgres in The Cloud
The EDB Postgres-as-a-Service provides a compelling option for ISVs caught in the never-ending need to support multiple databases across different cloud platforms. It’s the only fully managed service with Oracle compatibility that runs in every cloud, making it easy for ISVs to build their applications once and deploy them everywhere.
Instead of having deployment limitations based on specific cloud platforms or databases, with EDB Postgres AI, ISVs can have deployment flexibility. For ISVs looking to serve the broadest possible market, EDB Postgres AI provides an ideal solution.
EDB Postgres AI is also well-suited for larger customers who may have business units on different cloud platforms due to business requirements, mergers or acquisitions, or a cloud diversity strategy. With EDB Postgres AI, they can all use the same software and have consistent security compliance, disaster recovery, and business continuity capabilities.
Fully Managed Postgres Benefits for ISVs
EDB Postgres AI runs in every cloud and delivers the following ISV benefits:
- High availability and resilience for customer workloads: EDB Postgres Distributed technology on EDB Postgres AI allows developers to build highly resilient Postgres applications on any cloud, providing the power to build apps with active-active use cases and the flexibility to choose the best data environment. The solution provides best-in-class availability that ensures your disaster recovery solution is always operational, with data ready and available.
- Simplified customer onboarding while streamlining your operational model: EDB Postgres AI enables ISVs to operate Postgres in their customers’ preferred cloud environments.
- Reduced integration and delivery costs: EDB Postgres AI reduces multi-cloud costs and eliminates integration needs by providing the same Postgres experience on every cloud.
- Rock-solid open source enterprise database expertise: ISVs can depend on Postgres with the security, performance, and availability features their customers need, knowing they have the Postgres experts at EDB behind them.
- Simplified Oracle migrations for customers: Move your database to the cloud faster with the only Oracle-compatible Postgres-as-a-Service, and reduce application rewrites by up to 80%.
- Get started fast: ISVs can quickly show their customers the value of their solution without the need to establish CSP environments or identify their cloud SMEs.
- Efficiently service customers: EDB Postgres AI simplifies ISVs’ operational models, since they can efficiently service their customers in the cloud.
- Open source yet fully managed: By using EDB Postgres AI, ISVs can deliver an open source solution with a fully managed component, allowing them to address everything from performance problems to seamless updates, ensuring customer satisfaction but simplifying the delivery.
EDB Postgres AI Simplifies Development While Satisfying Customers
For ISVs, using EDB Postgres AI eliminates restrictions on what cloud platforms their customers can deploy to. It also removes the development and support required for customizing their solutions for different databases on different platforms.
By moving to a fully managed Postgres solution, ISVs can ensure enterprise high-availability capabilities, simplify onboarding while streaming operations, reduce integration and delivery costs, get customers started fast, have always-available rock-solid, open source database expertise on hand, and efficiently service customers via the cloud.
The EDB Postgres AI free trial includes a full-featured, Oracle-compatible, distributed Postgres experience that allows ISVs to see what running their database on a cloud service is like. Get started in minutes on EDB Postgres AI with $300 in cloud credits.
ISVs face significant challenges when supporting multiple cloud platforms, such as increased development time, higher integration and maintenance costs, and the need to rewrite applications and APIs for each platform. Additionally, ISVs must ensure compatibility with various cloud-specific services and manage different authentication and authorization mechanisms for each platform.
Fully managed Postgres services offer high availability, reduced integration and delivery costs, faster customer onboarding, and operational simplicity, allowing ISVs to efficiently service customers across multiple cloud environments. These services also provide automatic backups, scaling, and updates, freeing up ISVs to focus on their core business.
EDB Postgres AI supports multi-cloud deployments by providing a consistent Postgres experience across all cloud platforms, eliminating the need for ISVs to customize solutions for different cloud environments. It offers a unified management interface and consistent APIs, simplifying deployment and maintenance across multiple clouds.
EDB Postgres AI is compelling for ISVs because it offers Oracle compatibility, deployment flexibility, simplified and centralized management, and robust enterprise-level features such as disaster recovery and security compliance. It also provides advanced monitoring, alerting, and performance tuning capabilities to ensure optimal performance and reliability.
Yes, EDB Postgres AI reduces cloud migration costs by providing a unified Postgres solution across all cloud platforms, eliminating the need for extensive application rewrites and integration efforts. It also offers a seamless migration path from on-premises databases, minimizing downtime and disruption during the transition.
Postgres on Kubernetes simplifies scalability, enhances operational efficiency, and provides a robust, flexible data environment for cloud-native applications, making it ideal for modern development practices. It offers automatic scaling, self-healing, and easy deployment through Kubernetes, reducing the operational overhead for ISVs.
EDB Postgres AI enhances disaster recovery and business continuity by offering high availability and resilience through EDB Postgres Distributed technology, ensuring data is always available and protected across cloud environments. It provides automatic failover, replication, and disaster recovery capabilities, minimizing downtime and data loss in the event of a disaster.
Yes, EDB Postgres AI is suitable for large-scale enterprises as it provides a consistent Postgres experience across various cloud platforms, supports complex deployment needs, and ensures compliance with enterprise security standards. It offers advanced features such as multi-tenancy, role-based access control, and auditing, making it suitable for large organizations with complex data management requirements.
EDB offers 24/7 expert support for its Postgres solutions, providing assistance with deployment, performance tuning, security, and ongoing maintenance to ensure smooth operation and optimal performance. The support team includes experienced Postgres experts who can help troubleshoot issues and provide best practices for managing Postgres environments.
ISVs can get started with EDB Postgres AI by signing up for a free trial, which includes $300 in cloud credits and access to a full-featured, Oracle-compatible, distributed Postgres experience. Visit the EDB website to learn more and get started. The trial provides a hands-on opportunity to explore the features and benefits of EDB Postgres AI and evaluate its suitability for specific use cases.