As more processes move to the cloud, managing cloud ecosystems becomes increasingly complex. If companies hope to provide the agility their clients need, they must look for a consolidated, comprehensive solution, according to Jeremy Wilmot (pictured), chief product officer of real-time payment software company ACI Worldwide.

“Our previous database solution was complex … we leveraged multiple pieces of software from multiple vendors,” he said. “We looked for an alternative that was simpler and better … 2ndQuadrant Postgres was the one that provided the most comprehensive solution we were looking for.”

Wilmot spoke with John Walls, host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio, during Postgres Vision 2021. They discussed ACI’s Postgres journey and how it helped them deliver the right solutions for growing clients. (* Disclosure below.)

Postgres helping to meet changing market needs

In a market as regulated and competitive as payments, companies like ACI need to be flexible. Clients expect low-cost, agile solutions, which can be difficult to provide when working with multiple separate programs and systems. Postgres gave ACI an affordable way to consolidate these systems to stay competitive in the increasingly digital marketplace.

“[The payments industry] has regulation, it has consumer convenience, and the whole movement of digitalization that puts a lot of downward pressure on the cost space,” Wilmot explained. “The ability to reduce dramatically … the total cost of ownership upon which the payment software was going to be operating … was very important to us.”

Since Postgres provides a single platform for managing multiple database functions, it reduces costs significantly. As more organizations embrace public clouds, they also need consistent performance across multiple environments. As a flexible, open-source solution, Postgres enabled ACI to meet these demands too, according to Wilmot.

“We also wanted a greater flexibility and time to market that we could pass on to our customers,” he said. “We would be able to use [Postgres] in our own data centers, in our own private cloud, but we could also deploy it in the public cloud, whether we would run it or whether our customers would run it.”

Today’s markets demand lower operating costs, higher flexibility and more agility than ever before. As these trends continue, more companies will have to turn to comprehensive, open-source platforms like Postgres, Wilmot concluded.

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of Postgres Vision 2021. (*Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner for the Postgres Vision event. Neither EnterpriseDB Corp., the sponsor for theCUBE’s event coverage, nor other sponsors, have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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