Patrick Smith from the computer processing company, EPX, discusses why SharePlex is the Golden Alternative

My name is Patrick Smith. I am currently the lead database administrator for Electronic Payment Exchange, EPX, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of North American Bank [? Company. ?] The challenges that I deal with in my job do affect my personal life. And my job is all about stress. I cannot afford for my databases to be down. I can't afford for our company not to be able to perform its computer operations. Because all our company does is computer processing. That's our only product. If we're not processing, we're out of business until the processing resumes. For replication, previously we were using Oracle's Golden Gate. Our implementation was not successful. We were not able to practically and quickly verify the correctness of replication in order to permit business operations to move into the replicated environment with confidence. It made that solution unacceptable. It was not available to us because it did not solve our problem. We chose SharePlex because we had a critical business need for completely reliable, relatively high speed replication, which could be verified on an ongoing basis at an affordable total cost of ownership. The decision to engage professional services was predicated upon our desire to focus our investments on actual business operations. We do have a database administration team in my organization. We prefer that that team focus on database administrations and not be forced to become domain experts in SharePlex. Quest Support is of such quality that I could go on vacation, leave a [? junior ?] DBA in charge of my SharePlex replication solution with complete confidence that if something goes wrong, your support people can guide them to a solution effectively even though they're juniors. I would describe SharePlex as clearly for the vast majority of customers, requiring a replication solution to be the obvious choice. I chose SharePlex because SharePlex was the solution. It worked. And it didn't cost an arm and a leg. Pretty straightforward if you ask me.