Interview with accenture
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In which areas do you expect PostgreSQL to grow most and how does your company contribute to and benefit from that growth?
Under all the cool features and the extensibility of PostgreSQL, it's very easy to forget that first and foremost, PostgreSQL is a rock-solid general purpose RDBMS. PostgreSQL is a great choice to either start projects with, or to migrate existing applications to; and you can run it wherever and however you want, on-prem or cloud, hardware or virtual. The Free Software model gives you no surprise restrictions and no surprise license costs. We see a lot of potential in PostgreSQL, both for cost savings and more independence from single vendors in your IT operations.
What is your company's mission?
t Accenture, we use our wide range of capabilities, ecosystem partnerships and unmatched industry expertise to help our customers' business become the next best version of itself. Accenture aims to be the reinvention partner of choice for our clients. We support our customers' projects from IT and Cloud transformations, over digital engineering and smart manufacturing processes, to visual effects for award-winning TV series and movie productions.
What makes your company a great place to work?
On the one side, there is a wide variety of clients and projects. Every industry, every client and every project is different and provides new opportunities to learn. Also, with the broad expertise our company brings - strategy, business and industry applications and technology, project management, and all the IT topics one could think of - we have deep insights into many aspects of our clients' business. And there are our people: we have colleagues from all over the world, and working from many places in the world. On our projects, we bring people from different areas of specialisation, and it's always great to experience how we combine our expertise and form one team.
What is the most annoying PostgreSQL problem, and do you have plans or ideas to fix it?
The most annoying thing... is not a technical problem, it's more of a communication problem: people try to make 1:1 comparisons between PostgreSQL and the fully integrated, packaged software (and, in some cases, hardware) from proprietary vendors. Of course, this is often not helpful: it is one of the strengths of the PostgreSQL ecosystems that there are options - the system can be tailored to ones requirements. Of course, actually understanding one's requirements is more work than just ticking checkboxes...
What makes you want to attend the PGConf.DE conference?
The conferences are great opportunities to connect with the PostgreSQL community. This is where we meet people from our customers and partners, and our friends and colleagues. We can exchange ideas and jokes and have a generally good time. During the conferences, we pick up the news and trends and latest developments from the PostgreSQL world. And most importantly: there's always something new to learn, both in the presentations and in the hallway track.