Case Study: IKEA Retail achieves cost savings and accelerated app development with EnterpriseDB Postgres

How IKEA Retail Group used PostgreSQL to find success their way

IKEA Retail (Ingka Group) needed to modernize a legacy database landscape dominated by large proprietary relational systems to better support faster application development, lower costs, and more fit‑for‑purpose services. Many of their databases are small, compute utilization was low, and not all applications required enterprise editions, so the challenge was to offer flexible, cost‑efficient database options while maintaining performance and operational stability.

The company added Postgres (both PostgreSQL and EDB Postgres Advanced Server) to its product portfolio and worked with EDB to design the service, handle data protection and SLAs, and automate operations. This move enabled lightweight, lower‑cost database services without sacrificing performance, accelerated developer delivery of features, improved scalability and operational flexibility, and supported a phased migration of retail applications to Postgres worldwide.

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