Small investment, smart review and great insights

Thousands of organizations are locked-in to a considerable Oracle commitment. Given the many developments in IT and the possibilities of the cloud, they’re starting to wonder if they can reduce footprint of their Oracle databases.

As you undoubtedly know, an Oracle database is a licensed product and, due to the explosive growth of data, costs are getting higher and higher. At the same time, because of all the licensing restrictions, new developments such as the use of the cloud are not always immediately addressed. This slows down progress and innovation within organisations. But there is an alternative. The large cloud providers now offer alternatives for your Oracle databases. PostgreSQL plays an important role in this, because there are many technical and functional similarities between an Oracle database and PostgreSQL - and because PostgreSQL is open source, there are no licensing restrictions. Let's underline that, no licensing restrictions. This goes hand in hand with significant financial savings.

Insights

Before you can start migrating your Oracle databases to PostgreSQL, you will first want to understand what the overall impact will be to your business, helping you with decision making and planning. This requires insight into the Oracle databases in your production environments in terms of migration complexity and an estimate of the time required per Oracle database to migrate to PostgreSQL.

Our experience has shown that on average, 60% of the Oracle databases in production environments are very easy to migrate. This is what we call VERY SIMPLE and SIMPLE, and the results can be achieved quickly. The other 40% has a certain complexity that can impact the timescale of the migration.