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Enterprises around the world are rethinking their data strategy. Oracle remains foundational for many mission-critical applications, but licensing pressure, modernization priorities, and the need for faster innovation are driving customers to standardize on open-source databases. PostgreSQL continues to rise as a leading alternative: cloud-ready, enterprise-grade, and well suited for large, latency-sensitive workloads.

For partners, this shift represents one of the biggest modernization opportunities in the market. Customers are actively seeking migration expertise, repeatable methodologies, and end-to-end modernization services that reduce risk and accelerate time to value. They want an approach that is engineered, governed, and predictable.

Microsoft has been making significant investments in predictability. Over the last year, we’ve made substantial engineering improvements to Oracle-to-PostgreSQL migration tooling and guidance, including AI-assisted conversion and validation workflows designed to standardize more of the heavy lifting for partners.

At the same time, customers are raising the bar on what “modern data” means. It is not only about moving to the cloud. It is about reducing latency, simplifying governance, and enabling real-time decisions at scale. Apollo Hospitals offers a useful example of what this looks like in practice and why foundational modernization, including PostgreSQL modernization, is moving up the priority list.

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