Archive for January, 2012

Change your Sleeping Habits and Reduce Your Deploy Costs

Tuesday, January 17th, 2012

A customer recently shared the changes in his new sleeping habits with me as a result of his company’s installation of the dbMaestro TeamWork™ DCM (Database Change Management) Solution. For years the company where he serves as the IT and Database Manager has consistently run all the new database revisions at night. During this time he required that each developer be on call and responsible for his or her own changes and problems throughout the night.  In addition, as the IT manager of this large group of developers he himself was up through these nights. He was coordinating the work between the developers and trying to determine when a problem arose- where it was coming from.

He searched for a solution that would manage the changes in the database together with a Database Version Control that would support all ALM solutions. That’s when dbMaestro entered his life and changed his sleeping habits. He of course was thrilled that he was now able to get a full night’s sleep.

My question is how does this affect the organization’s bottom line and ROI? I’m sure the company is pleased that their employees are sleeping at home and not during the day in the office. But more importantly is the fact that only one developer is on call during the nights as opposed to all of them. The Managers are spending their expensive time moving forward with their challenges and not constantly looking backwards to; Who did What change and Why. To quote the customer “The dbMaestro DCM solution pays for itself”.

dbMaestro TeamWork enables performing the required actions that ensure a smooth and error free deployment.

Only TeamWork enables deployment of database changes based on:

  • Change impact analysis
  • The ability to deploy changes by business requirements (which can include enforcing version control management on the database development)
  • Perfected merge conflict platform

The direct benefits gained implementing TeamWork™ into the ALM cycle can be translated into considerably less deployment time (a savings of up to 95%) at a significantly substantial cost savings:

  • Increased throughput per person
  • Automatic conflict resolution
  • Valuable development time devoted to the actual tasks ahead and not to rollbacks

Contact us so we can help you change your sleeping habits too!

dbMaestro TeamWork™ is the ultimate DCM (Database Change Management) Solution and the only solution available that enables you to:

  • Control – Finally Control Your Database Development
  • Deploy – Decrease Your Deployment Costs by 95%
  • Protect – Enhance your Database Security
  • Comply – Ensure Compliance to Regulatory Bodies (PCI, SOX, HIPAA, etc…)
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