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The following Professional Services are registered in Africa.
| Name | BRLink - Solucoes em TI (http://www.brlink.com.br) | |
| Provides | Provides both support and hosting. | |
| Description | BRLink is a company that provides open source technical services, consulting, hosting on PostgreSQL. | |
| Number of employees | 15 | |
| Office locations | São Paulo - Brasil | |
| Hours | 08:30 às 18:00 | |
| Languages | English - Português do Brasil | |
| Experience | 8 years with PostgreSQL | |
| Contact information | Rafael Marangoni - contato@brlink.com.br |
| Name | Bull Information Systems (http://www.postgresqlmigrations.com/) | |
| Provides | Provides both support and hosting. | |
| Description | Bull Information Systems Inc. is part of a >$1B international IT services company, which offers expertise in all key elements of the IT value chain. Bull holds leadership positions in Open Software, Database Migration technologies, High Performance Computing, and Mission Critical Enterprise Servers. Our experienced team of database specialists has been providing services to Fortune 500 companies and major public sector clients worldwide for over 30 years. We have many years of experience with PostgreSQL, and have completed migrations for major clients in both the private and public sectors both DB2 and Oracle to PostgreSQL, as well as from legacy non-relational databases to PostgreSQL . We have the tools to convert all database features, including stored procedures, triggers, and functions. http://www.postgresmigrations.com | |
| Number of employees | 5000+ | |
| Office locations | Arizona, Massachusetts, Kentucky, USA; Paris, France; Sao Paulo, Brazil | |
| Languages | English, Spanish, French, Portuguese | |
| Customer example | http://www.postgresmigrations.com/cnaf-success-story Bull and CNAF smoothly migrated two proprietary databases to PostgreSQL and improved the performance of PostgreSQL in the process. The consolidation of separate databases into one "national" database resulted in one of the largest PostgreSQL databases in Europe. http://www.postgresmigrations.com/stored-procedure-translation. Bull converted two very large databases with tens of thousands of lines of stored procedures from Oracle to PostgreSQL. | |
| Experience | We have experts in Database design, tuning, migration, and can manage small to very large projects. We have expertise in nearly every major relational database, as well as in non-relational databases, and have products and tools that can migrate applications as well as databases. | |
| Contact information | General Inquiries: DBMigration@bull.com Phone 1.800.233.2855 |
| Name | ctrlF5 (http://www.ctrlf5.co.za) | |
| Description | Control-F5 is a specialised consultancy with a strong interest in open source software solutions, particularly Postgres for BI and CMS backends. | |
| Office locations | Johannesburg (South Africa) | |
| Experience | 15 years across the database landscape, from Access to Universe, past all things relational and nested relational - including Postgres, DB/2, MySQL and Microsoft SQL Server. Six years specifically on Postgres. | |
| Contact information | Bell on bell@ctrlf5.co.za or +27 82 454 1168 |
| Name | Engine Yard, Inc. (http://www.engineyard.com/) | |
| Provides | Provides both support and hosting. | |
| Description | Engine Yard is the leading Platform as a Service (PaaS), empowering cloud application development more rapidly, easily and cost effectively. With deep technical expertise, powerful infrastructure orchestration, strong support of the open source community, and world-class service, Engine Yard provides a complete commercial grade solution that enables developers to focus on creating great applications, instead of managing their platform. Thousands of customers in 58 countries, from explosive-growth Web startups to Fortune 500 enterprises, rely on Engine Yard to leverage the cloud for competitive advantage. Headquartered in San Francisco, Calif., Engine Yard is backed by Benchmark Capital, New Enterprise Associates and Amazon.com. | |
| Number of employees | 125 | |
| Office locations | San Francisco, CA; Portland, OR; Dublin, Ireland; Tokyo, Japan; Buffalo, NY | |
| Hours | 24x7 via Live Chat; visit engineyard.com and click on Live Chat | |
| Languages | English, Japanese | |
| Customer example | With each monthly edition of Facebook Stories, we can handle huge traffic bursts of 10s of millions of pageviews - and to get more resources, we just click a button." – Phil Jeffs, Creative Director, Area17 For more examples visit: http://www.engineyard.com/company/customers | |
| Experience | Engine Yard has over 6 years of experience offering Ruby on Rails, PHP, and Node.js hosting and support. Engine Yard is the leading Platform as a Service provider with thousands of customers in over 58 countries worldwide. The Engine Yard support team offers · Expertise gained supporting thousands of development teams · Guaranteed response - as little as 30 minutes for urgent issues · Real-time, 24x7 access to support · Deep experience in Ruby on Rails, PHP, Node.js and Database Administration · Global coverage in your time zone · Proactive response and “on behalf” system administration | |
| Contact information | sales@engineyard.com 866-518-9273 Live Chat – visit engineyard.com and click on Live Chat |
| Name | EnterpriseDB Corporation (http://www.enterprisedb.com/) | |
| Description | The world's leading provider of PostgreSQL support, professional services and training. Support is provided 24x7 on a global basis. Specialists in design, architecture, implementation and management of PostgreSQL. Database optimisation and performance tuning a specialty. Also deliver RemoteDBA services to provide day to day management of PostgreSQL and EnterpriseDB databases. | |
| Number of employees | 100-200 | |
| Office locations | New Jersey & Massachusetts USA, Oxford, England, Islamabad Pakistan, Pune India | |
| Hours | 24x7 worldwide | |
| Languages | English | |
| Customer example | "We chose EnterpriseDB to work with us on PostgreSQL support, because we've been continually impressed by their PostgreSQL expertise, customer focus and support capabilities." -- Vice President for System Software, Sun Microsystems Telco - Entertainment/Gaming - Retail - Finance - Government - Internet - Manufacturing | |
| Experience | EnterpriseDB employs the most core PostgreSQL team members and developers of any company, including Bruce Momjian, Dave Page, Heikki Linnakangas, Pavan Deolasee and Korry Douglas. Many of the new features in PostgreSQL 8.3, including key performance enhancements (such as HOT) were developed by EnterpriseDB. | |
| Contact information | Technical Support: support@enterprisedb.com +1-732-331-1320 1-800-235-5891 (US Only) Sales Inquiries: sales-us@enterprisedb.com (US) sales-intl@enterprisedb.com (Intl) +1-732-331-1315 +1-877-377-4352 General Inquiries: info@enterprisedb.com +1-732-331-1300 General Inquiries (APAC): info.asiapacific@enterprisedb.com General Inquiries (EMEA): info.emea@enterprisedb.com Media Inquiries: press@enterprisedb.com +1-408-275-6488 |
| Name | Figure8 Information Studio (http://www.figure8.co.za) | |
| Description | Figure8 Information Studio is an open source company combines the Geographical Information System(GIS) technology and Information Technology(IT) to provide a complete range of affordable business solutions from consulting, desktop support, scalable network resources, centralized file-system services, client /server applications, integrated communications services and user training to database-driven web-based applications, custom web site design, e-commerce, integrated web development for all our clientelle needs. | |
| Number of employees | 5 | |
| Office locations | East London ( South Africa ) | |
| Languages | English | |
| Contact information | East London South Africa Tel: +27739776951 Fax : +27866905516 email: info@figure8.co.za http://www.figure8.co.za |
| Name | Kieser Consultancy Limited (http://www.kieser.net) | |
| Provides | Provides both support and hosting. | |
| Description | We are a mature, stable and well funded company. We have established, long term clients and a stable revenue base. Our knowledge is based in high end, enterprise environments. We specialise in developing and hosting bespoke database web applications. We also provide both onsite and offsite consultancy and Postgres support services. We can deliver the full product stack from requirements planning to deployment, hosting and maintenance including preconfigured hardware. We develop in Ruby on Rails, Java, PLPgSQL or PHP. Our unique skill is bringing creativity and innovative ideas to our clients while converting commercial requirements into technical deliverables. Our hosting is 100% OpenSource, based on Linux with a 100% telecoms SLA and full management and support of your Postgres database(s). If you are looking for a thorough-bred, 100% OpenSource, reliable service provider with a proven track record and a passion for technology, you just found it! | |
| Number of employees | 9 | |
| Office locations | Carlisle (UK), London (UK), Johannesburg (South Africa) | |
| Hours | 8:30 - 19:00 | |
| Languages | English | |
| Customer example | Alcatel J P Morgan O2 Virgin (V2 music) IDR General Electric Deutsche Bank La Redoute Fotorama | |
| Experience | 12 years Postgres 16 years Ingres 4 years Oracle 16 years Linux PHP: Since Rasmus first released it. Ruby on Rails: Since David first released it. Java: Since Sun first released it. | |
| Contact information | Email web@kieser.net |
| Name | Metatron Technology Consulting (http://www.metatrontech.com/) | |
| Description | Software Development, Training, and Technical Writing on PostgreSQL and line of business applications (LedgerSMB in particular). | |
| Number of employees | 3 | |
| Languages | English | |
| Customer example | 1: Authored technical documentation for Microsoft on running PostgreSQL on Windows. 2: Fortune 500 company wished to develop open source configurations to sell package with their projects. Provided training to a mixed group of engineers and marketing personnel on open source accounting and CRM software. 3: Mid-sized financial services business needed financial accounting software. We implemented a solution for them based on LedgerSMB and trained database administrators familiar with MySQL on the use and administration of PostgreSQL databases. | |
| Experience | Our team has 12 years experience with managing and developing for PostgreSQL. We are deeply involved in the development of LedgerSMB and contribute to other open source projects as well. |
| Name | PostgreSQL-Consulting.com (http://www.postgresql-consulting.com/) | |
| Description | We provide a full set of very affordable 24x7 support services covering all the PostgreSQL database life cycle. It includes architecture, deployment, scalability, optimization, maintenance and coaching tasks. Startups are offered 50% off. | |
| Office locations | USA, Germany, Russia, Australia | |
| Hours | 24x7 | |
| Languages | English, Russian | |
| Contact information | support@postgresql-consulting.com |
| Name | Unisys Corporation (http://www.unisys.com) | |
| Description | Unisys is a worldwide information technology services and solutions company. It provides Open Source support services, consulting, systems integration, outsourcing and infrastructure services, combined with ppowerful enterprise server technology. Unisys specializes in helping clients use information to create efficient, secure business operations that allow them to achieve their business goals. Unisys consultants, and industry experts work with clients to understand their business challenges and create greater visibility into critical linkages throughout their operations. Unisys has deep focus on testing, optimization and maintenance of mission-critical, enterprise-class solutions leveraging Open Source, worldwide enterprise-class support for Open Source Software including PostgreSQL. | |
| Office locations | Unisys Way, Blue Bell, PA, 19424 USA (offices worldwide) | |
| Hours | 24/7 | |
| Languages | English | |
| Experience | The Unisys Open Support Services helps PostgreSQL clients leverage the significant benefits of open source and open standards without compromising enteprise characteristics such as security, reliability, and performance. | |
| Contact information | 1 215 986 4011 (USA corporate office) |
| Name | Zwartberg Research & Development (http://www.zwartberg.com/hosting.html) | |
| Provides | Provides both support and hosting. | |
| Description | We offer a range of hosting options, from entry level to clustered, including dedicated Postgresql databases. These services are fully managed with rotating backup. We also offer The Karoo Project (for accelerated application development) for free. | |
| Number of employees | 4 | |
| Office locations | South Africa | |
| Hours | Daylight hours in South Africa | |
| Languages | English | |
| Customer example | http://www.deniseohlson.co.za/ | |
| Experience | 20+ years | |
| Contact information | Land line: +27 23 5411 462 Mobile: +27 79 69 77 082 5 Jan Louw Str, Prince Albert, 6930 Postal: P.O. Box 2, Prince Albert 6930 South Africa |