The document discusses best practices for optimizing Postgres ROI through EnterpriseDB expert guidance and services. It outlines services such as enterprise architecture reviews, remote DBA services, technical account management, training, and certification which are designed to help customers strategically plan their Postgres infrastructure according to industry best practices and avoid risks. Customer testimonials provide examples of how EDB services have helped customers improve availability, performance, and resolve issues.

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Expert Guidance:
Optimizing Your Postgres ROI Through Best
Practices
For more details on how to optimize your Postgres ROI please email sales@enterprisedb.com

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Matt Cicciari
Director, Product Marketing
EDB Speakers
Debra Brucato
Director, Services Product Management

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• Can my existing database architecture and deployment
strategy keep up with demand?
• What if I didn’t have to contend with the process and
expense of hiring another DBA?
• How can I improve my team’s ability to resolve
complex database management issues?
Agenda

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Why Expert Guidance is Needed
Markets are changing rapidly and
becoming significantly more complex…
By 2028,
75% of S&P 500
list will change
By 2020, there will
be 25B devices
generating data

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It’s all about minimizing risk….
Keeping your DBMS Strategically Aligned
• Avoid the complexity and risk of building
out your DBMS environment “as you go.”
• Keeping your DBMS up-to-date for
security patches, fixes, etc.
• Ensuring Best Practices

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Enterprise Architecture Service
EDB Postgres setup or architectural review that
follows best practices
Deliverables
Installation of EDB Postgres and Tools
High Availability using EFM
Disaster Recovery using BART, PITR
Single Master Replication
Management and Monitoring with PEM
Security Control
Operational Readiness Plan
• Prepare a mission-critical
production environment that
is highly available, scalable,
and secure
OR
• Review existing architecture
to ensure it is implemented
according to a best practices

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• AHC looks at:
− Operating system
− Hardware configuration
− Database parameter settings
− Performance tuning opportunities
− Backup strategies
− General database practices
− Upgrade requirements
− High availability options
• Identifies
− Short term opportunities
− Strategic opportunities
• Jointly develop a go-forward plan
for implementing
recommendations
Architectural Health Check

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An Expensive Process to Hire a DBA
Technical
• Skills do not map
from Vendor X to
Postgres
• Need for
specialized
expertise beyond
current team
Business
• No budget for hiring
DBA staff
• DBA staff turn-over
• Can’t meet
commitments
Shared
• Limited supply of
qualified Postgres
DBAs
• Business &
Technical Ramp-up
You are not alone…

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EDB Postgres leadership provides best practices for you!
World-Class Remote DBA Services
• Optimize in-house resources for
mission-critical activities
• Lower total management costs
• Leverage EDB state-of-the art
expertise
• Accountability for results
• Around-the-clock assurance
• Best practice technology &
procedures
• Lead technicians manage &
coordinate your support
• No hiring or training costs
Full DBA Support for Postgres Databases

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Expert Guidance:
5 Advantages of RemoteDBA Services
− How RemoteDBA Services works
− Applicable business & technical uses cases
− Customer success stories
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RemoteDBA Webinar – Detailed Overview

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Empowering You to Resolve Issues
Where do
you
look?
What do
you
Know?
How do
you
learn?
Who can
you
trust?
How much time do YOU have?

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Advocating
your
success
Understands your
environment, team,
and goals
Bridging needs and
solutions: best
practices, adoption
approaches, rollout
strategies that can
work for you
Aligns Postgres
database
infrastructure with
business goals
Helping you to
maximize the value
of your Postgres
investment
Roadmap planning
with confidence
Technical Account Manager

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Planning
• Infrastructure review
• Architecture advice
• Scalability design
DBMS
• Software upgrades
• Application migration
planning
Disaster Recovery
• Strategic DR review
• High Availability (HA)
guidance
Performance
• Tuning advice
• Recommendations
“Care & Feeding”
• Manage technical
issues
• Mentor team
Technical Account Manager: Typical Tasks

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• Postgres Training
− Certified Postgres expert trainers
− DBA & Developer course tracks
− Postgres Certification source
• Course Offerings
− Foundational and advanced levels
− Building, migrating, optimizing tracks
− Maximize learning with presentation, labs, Q&A
− Customization is available
• Learning that fits your schedule
− Online, On-Demand, Classroom & On-site
EDB Global Education Services

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Training eSubscription
• Unlimited access to full
on-demand training library
• Fresh content added monthly
• Module access at the time
you need it
• Value-based pricing model -
pay once for full year of
access
Traditional Model
• 6-weeks of access for a single
on-demand course
• Access to only individual class
purchased
• Take course within 6 weeks
and no further access
• Pay as you go
Postgres Training eSubscriptions
StructuredFlexible VS.

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• Industry-recognized global standard for
certification
• Convenient online exam format
• PostgreSQL and EDB Postgres programs
− Associate-level
− Professional-level
• Maximize results through proven skills
Validation: Postgres Certification from EDB
PostgreSQL
EDB
Postgres
Advanced
Server

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Postgres
Experts
Strategic
Engagement
Build
Trust
Stay
Informed
EDB
Services
Choosing the Right Partner for Services

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But Don’t Take Our Word For It…
“EDB became part of the Bio-Imaging design team and helped us to make
valuable improvements to our replication design.”
-- Emmanuel Olart
Manager, Technical Services
Bioclinica
“During the Thanksgiving holiday weekend in 2014, I had been awake for 52 hours
with only 3 hours of sleep managing our…transaction queue. This year, my focus has
been on Thanksgiving left overs. Many thanks to EDB products and services for the
stability and performance in our…system.”
-- <Name Withheld>
VP of Engineering
<Company Name Withheld>
“The [EDB] engineer not only solved my problem, but gave me multiple ways that I
could do it to help me choose what was right for my environment. Very detailed and
easy to follow instructions as well.”
-- <Name Withheld>
DBA
<US Government Agency>

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Expert Guidance to Accelerate Success
Subscriptions
• Subscription models include:
• Software licenses
• Tools for Performance,
Scalability, High Availability,
and Management
• Software Maintenance
• Premium Support Services
• Subscriptions for Production
• EDB Postgres Enterprise
• EDB Postgres Standard
• Subscriptions for R&D
• EDB Postgres Developer
Services
• Comprehensive
professional services that
define success from the
outset
• Enterprise Architecture
Services (EAS)
• Architectural Health Check
(AHC)
• RemoteDBA
• Upgrade Services
Training
• World-class training that
fits your needs:
• Classroom & on-site
• Online
• NEW - eSubscriptions
• DBA & Developer tracks
available
• Courses cover
administration, migration,
performance tuning and
more
Certification
• Convenient online exam
format
• PostgreSQL & EDB
Postgres programs
• Associate-level
• Professional-level
• EDB Training curriculum
supports Certification
program

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