Interview with Proventa
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- What is your PostgreSQL centered product?
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Proventa enables digital transformation by supporting your transition to open-source PostgreSQL. We feature the complete stack, starting from architecture and design to the implementation, data migration, trainings, and performance analysis.
- What makes your company a great place to work?
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Proventa strives to foster our employees’ interest in mastering technologies to provide everyone with the required hardware/software and a dedicated yearly training budget to successfully succeed in their daily work. When we are not working at the customer’s site, our employees can choose to work from home or our office in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, to better reconcile families and career. Additionally, we encourage entrepreneurial thinking and participation in sales activities to shape the future of Proventa with current and future technologies and products.
- Which of your company's contributions to the PostgreSQL Project (code/community/conference) are you most proud of?
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Proventa is the founder of the PostgreSQL User Group (PUG) Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Our meeting-group serves as a platform to present, learn, and discuss anything about PostgreSQL. We try to mix local and foreign speakers to offer an exciting and diversified field of expertise. When time fits, we aim to inspire computer science students from the University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt (h_da) for PostgreSQL and its potential by lecturing as part of the official curriculum.