Enterprise Database Efficiency: Optimize Performance, Cost, and Flexibility with Postgres®

Achieve your strategic business outcomes with a leading Postgres data and AI platform.

Why modernizing legacy databases is a strategic imperative

Enterprise IT leaders face increasing pressure to accelerate time to market, reduce unpredictable database costs, and mitigate critical operational risks. The restrictive, proprietary database models that have dominated for more than a decade are now the single biggest impediment to innovation, financial agility, and strategic control.

Legacy systems create unacceptable risk profiles: Aggressive vendor lock-in restricts strategic flexibility and data sovereignty, exorbitant licensing costs devour innovation budgets, and operational complexity prevents the real-time responsiveness required for modern AI initiatives.

Core business value drivers

IT leadership must prioritize strategic freedom, agility, and resilience across the enterprise. The shift to a modern database platform requires evaluating nonnegotiable value-driving pillars:

Financial and operational efficiency


  • Optimize spend and maximize ROI
  • Reduce dependency on proprietary systems
  • Advance ESG and operational efficiency goals

Agility and innovation


  • Achieve infrastructure agility
  • Accelerate innovation and open data access
  • Modernize data distribution for maximum flexibility

Risk, resilience, and compliance


  • Ensure business continuity and resilience
  • Mitigate risk and strengthen security posture
  • Maintain governance for regulatory and legal requirements

Industry leadership with people and performance


  • Drive customer satisfaction through performance and reliability
  • Enable talent empowerment and retention with headache-free databases
  • Be seen as a leader in your industry

How to use open-source database solutions for strategic freedom and cost optimization

Adopt flexible and innovative technologies to ensure your budget is spent where it makes the most sense.

Reduce dependency on proprietary systems


Actively migrate away from costly, restrictive legacy databases.

How to get there: Institute legacy database migration support and utilize a phased Oracle-to-Postgres® migration path. Using compatibility tools ensures a clean, modern database infrastructure.

Optimize spend and grow revenue


Shift from a capital-expenditure (CapEx) to an operational-expenditure (OpEx) model.

How to get there: Opt for a subscription-based business model to avoid vendor lock-in and seek higher returns on investment. This allows for predictable budgeting and scaling, with clear comparisons on throughput and price/performance.

Embrace a 'Deploy Anywhere' cloud-agnostic strategy


Decouple your data strategy from your infrastructure provider.

How to get there: Establish the flexibility to run in any cloud (public, private, or hybrid) and support any infrastructure. This ensures the most agile integration of Postgres and Kubernetes (K8s), allowing you to deploy where it makes the most financial and operational sense.

Innovate faster on an open, extensible platform


Build new applications and services using an extensible, open-source-first platform.

How to get there: Support faster innovation with Postgres's native extensibility system. This allows you to start new projects without large up-front investment (leveraging OSS) and use a single, general-purpose platform, reducing the number of moving parts.

Unify data workloads for AI and real-time insights


Consolidate transactional and analytical data to eliminate data silos and latency.

How to get there: Unify workloads to remove delays in deriving insights. This is supported by tools like EDB Postgres AI Hybrid Manager, which is part of a leading Postgres data and AI platform, enabling faster, more accurate business intelligence.




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The EDB Postgres AI difference: Supporting enterprise cost, risk mitigation, and data agility goals

EDB Postgres AI (EDB PG AI) provides enterprise-level support and solutions backed by unparalleled Postgres expertise. We distinguish ourselves through a combination of technology, support, and professional services.

Strategic Outcome / Business NeedRequired CapabilitiesEDB Differentiator
Reduce Dependency on Proprietary Systems
  • Seamless migration from Oracle and other legacy databases with minimal disruption 
  • Governed, secure, and certified Postgres distribution for enterprise use
Optimize Spend and Maximize ROI
  • Cost-efficient migration and operations with a subscription-based model (shift from CapEx to OpEx) to avoid vendor-lock in 
  • Transparent pricing and predictable support
Achieve Infrastructure Agility
  • Freedom to deploy Postgres anywhere—on-prem, hybrid, multi-cloud, or Kubernetes
  • Simplified operations across environments
Ensure Business Continuity and Resilience
  • Enterprise-grade high availability (99.999%)
  • Automatic failover
  • Zero-downtime upgrades 
Mitigate Risk and Strengthen Security Posture
  • Advanced database security
  • Governed open source adoption
  • Enterprise-grade SLAs to protect data and ensure compliance
  • Sovereign data assurance with advanced server security features
  • Governed and certified Postgres distribution 
  • 24x7 incident response
  • SLA-backed support 
Accelerate Innovation and Open Data Access
  • Open, extensible Postgres platform with multipath data access (polyglot persistence)
  • Simplified management and integration with other systems
  • Foreign data wrappers for data enrichment
  • EDB leadership in Postgres community innovation
Drive Customer Satisfaction Through Performance and Reliability
  • Reliable, responsive database performance
  • Ease of management
  • Flexible scaling to meet dynamic workloads 
  • Industry-leading SLAs
  • Postgres community influences driving roadmap alignment with your customer needs
Advance ESG and Operational Efficiency Goals
  • Energy-efficient infrastructure through database consolidation
  • Minimized architectural footprint
  • Modern Postgres architectures on Kubernetes 
  • Optimized data centers and emissions reductions as high as as 87% EDB PG AI Postgres consolidation expertise on Kubernetes
  • CloudNativePG leadership
  • Support for all workload scales 
Enable Talent Empowerment and Retention
  • Leverage with the global open source ecosystem
  • Ongoing training
  • Certification paths to upskill teams

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