TechValidate Research on Datavail

Introduction

This case study of a large enterprise aerospace & defense company is based on an August 2017 survey of Datavail Database Services customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service. The profiled company asked to have their name blinded to protect their confidentiality.

Challenges

The business challenges that led the profiled company to evaluate and ultimately select Datavail Database Services:

• Wanted to address the following challenge when they hired Datavail:
  • Improve database administration quality

Use Case

The key features and functionalities of Datavail Database Services that the surveyed company uses:

• Utilizes Datavail in the following ways:
  • Remote database management
  • Database upgrades and migrations
  • Database assessments and health checks
  • Performance tuning
• Rate the following Datavail personnel:
  • Service Delivery Manager: good
  • Dedicated US DBA: excellent
  • Dedicated Tier 3 Offshore DBA: good
  • Offshore DBAs (operational team): satisfactory

Results

The surveyed company achieved the following results with Datavail Database Services:

• Has achieved the following benefits since hiring Datavail:
  • Improved the quality of their database administration
  • Improved round-the-clock coverage

• Resulted in the following since they’ve engaged with Datavail:
  • DBA coverage: greatly improved
  • DBA expertise: greatly improved
  • Database availability: improved
  • Database environment quality: dramatically improved
  • Database reliability: greatly improved
  • Database performance: improved