How one ISV accelerated clinical trials by migrating to EDB Postgres Cloud

When it comes to clinical trials in the healthcare industry, accurate and timely data is critical to success. The right database solution can accelerate research and provide invaluable insights that quite literally change people’s lives

Many independent software vendors (ISVs) today find their customers are requesting – and even requiring – open cloud environments for their databases. 

This was the case for a leading healthcare ISV that optimizes clinical trial data reporting between clinicians, pharma sponsors and regulatory authorities. Their eClinical application was built on an Oracle database running on AWS cloud, and several of their customers said they no longer wanted to use Oracle technology for their clinical research activities. In addition, Oracle tech support for their legacy database environment was limited, and the ISV knew upgrading their licensing would be expensive.

To resolve all these concerns and simplify clinical trial regulatory submissions, enhance report monitoring and optimize workflows, the ISV chose to migrate their eClinical app to open source Postgres in the cloud. They knew they had to move as quickly as possible in order to remain competitive and help get cutting-edge treatments in the hands of doctors and patients worldwide.

Because the ISV migrated to EDB BigAnimal, our open, cloud-based, fully managed Postgres solution, we were able to help them streamline the process. By deploying EDB Postgres Advanced Server (EPAS) on BigAnimal, the ISV benefited from Oracle compatibility that reduced the need to rewrite queries and rework their application, saving time and increasing speed to market.

EDB partners with AWS, so moving from Oracle on AWS to Postgres on AWS was straightforward – but the ISV could have also easily moved to Azure or Google Cloud, since our BigAnimal Postgres-as-a-Service runs in every cloud. This makes BigAnimal ideal for companies that have business units on different cloud platforms due to internal requirements or a cloud diversity strategy, Applications can be built once and deployed everywhere.

While the healthcare ISV was concerned that their limited in-house staff resources would delay their migration, it wasn’t a problem. Our fully managed Postgres approach, Postgres subject matter expertise and break-fix support provided the help they needed to accelerate the migration in their U.S. environment and primed them for the transition in other regions, too. With the power of EDB to modernize their app infrastructure, the company can accelerate the progress of clinical trials and contribute to the advancement of medical treatments globally.

If you’d like to follow in this ISV’s footsteps and see what running your Postgres database on a cloud service is like, we invite you to take advantage of our free BigAnimal trial. It might be one of the best moves you ever make!  Try BigAnimal for free.

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