Case Study: Aquent achieves $200K+ IT savings and global data access with EnterpriseDB Postgres Plus in the Cloud

Aquent replaces self-hosted Sybase with EnterpriseDB Postgres Plus in the Cloud

Aquent, a global marketing services firm, relied on a mission‑critical resource management system that had grown from a client/server app into a web‑based platform used across 50+ offices. Maintaining three independent data centers (US, Europe, Asia) to keep data local produced high infrastructure and operating costs and made it difficult to give all offices timely access to the same data.

Aquent replaced its self‑hosted Sybase setup with EnterpriseDB Postgres Plus Advanced Server for built‑in replication and moved each regional instance to Amazon Web Services (while migrating from AIX to Linux). With EnterpriseDB and partner support, the project delivered synchronized global access, eliminated server and many software costs, cut colo expenses by 50%, reduced DBA overhead, and lowered IT spend for the application by more than $200K annually.

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