Fentons partners Enterprise DB to drive digital initiatives

India and South Asia Senior Sales Director Ashutosh Sarkar and Hayleys Group Executive Director Sarath Ganegoda join hands in Fentons ltd and Enterprise DB partnership. Others from left : Solutions Consultant Jayaraj, Consultant Manoj Mohinani, ICT GM Sujith de Alwis, ICT AGM Yoosoof Ihthisham and  Business Development Manager Dudly Samantha Silwa

By Shannon Jayawardena

Fentons Ltd., a subsidiary of Hayleys, has signed a partnership with Enterprise DB under the title ‘Value Added Reseller’ to drive digital initiatives and create several benefits for end customers and ICT vendors. 

The partnership is to provide future technologies with the commercial benefits that come with the adoption of Open Source and their mission is to facilitate open source advantage to the enterprises and empower the consumer while strengthening offerings to build a strong partnership with some of the leading technology companies across the country. 

Hayleys Group Executive Director Sarath Ganegoda said: “Hayleys is a very traditional company with over 40 years of presence. We see a lot of similarities in the culture of these two organisations and we have seen their serious capability in the areas of ICT and surveillance. Given the foreseeable construction move, we believe that we can move forward.”

The partnership is mainly based on Open Source technology which came as a first wave with the operating system named Linux which has today generated to over $5 million business in Sri Lanka alone it was noted. 

“Data base revolution is happening at big pace which is will be much bigger than the Linux and it is happening today,” emphasised Consultant Manoj Mohinani.  Fentons’ diverse portfolio currently spans the sectors of banking, finance and insurance, hospitality, high-rise development, stadiums, education, healthcare, manufacturing and telecom and broadcasting as well. Thereby officials from both parties believe that the partnership will cater to all sectors across the country.

The EDB platform further provides an enterprise-class data management platform based on PostgreSQl, including toolkits for management, integration and migration, flexible deployment options, services and support to deploy Postgres responsibly at scale. 

EDB Postgres India Subcontinent Senior Sales Director Ashutosh Sarkar stated: “Enterprise DB is an American company that started in 2004 and works on captivating the emerging opportunities of Open Source database. Today everybody is looking forwarded to adapting and transforming to the open source data base.” 

Few years ago the database market was close to $32 billion globally yet, there wasn’t any commercialisation in the space at the time. Sarker highlighted the fact that they have been in Sri Lanka for over four years trying to invest in the market at the right time and are grateful to have a partnership with Fentons. 

There is 40% expenditure spent on database year on year and it is estimated that 70% of the new data will be open source database, with 50% of the existing databases moving into open source which is a huge opportunity for the ICT industry. The momentum has now picked up and is the area that the partnership is focused on, stressed Sarker. 

Further the partnership is currently conducting a programme in the country to enable the technical resource base that is the end-users, partners, and government sector to train in the field. They are also interacting with customers who want to know how to migrate out of the current database that they are using and move out to Postgres or Enterprise DB.  Likewise a resource pool is to be conducted at Fentons together with Enterprise DB providing technical services and solutions to the market place in the near future.

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