Like their international peers, South African companies face many database challenges in an increasingly connected and data-driven business landscape.Businesses must contend with rising database management costs, manual-intensive processes prone to error, a lack of visibility on how resources are used, the inability to scale on demand, and a poor user experience.
Within this context, companies are increasingly frustrated by having to spend resources managing the life cycle of their databases, specifically their on-premises ones, instead of innovating and focusing on growing the business. Combining these concerns with increasing costs and a lack of agility to keep up with evolving business needs and the availability of advanced technology, technology leaders are embracing DBaaS and offloading the management of their databases to trusted service providers. In turn, businesses can look at enhancing internal operations to drive growth and identify new business models for a digital world.
One project delay can cause a snowball effect throughout the entire organisation that can put the organisation under even more pressure to perform.