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SANTA CLARA, Calif., — December 21, 2020—Despite significant upheaval to organizations’ digital transformation plans, the COVID-19 pandemic has contributed to a surge in innovative projects,  according to research from Couchbase, the creator of the enterprise-class, multicloud to edge NoSQL database. In Couchbase’s fourth annual digital transformation survey,  77 percent of organizations had to either make “noticeable” or “major” changes to their digital transformation plans, or start again from scratch. However, the rate of innovation (i.e. the number of projects driven by an original idea from within the business) almost doubled, rising from 8 percent in 2019 to 14 percent. Similarly, organizations were still able to meaningfully improve the end-user experience while responding to COVID-19. Yet worryingly, the number of failed, delayed, or scaled-back projects is still high, at 79 percent. This potentially represents a significant waste of resources: enterprises spent an average of $5.5M on these projects over the year.

In general, while the pandemic caused a rapid reappraisal of digital transformation plans, it did not stop investment. Key findings included:

• Pandemic reaction supports spending increase: Average digital transformation spend grew from $27 million per organization in 2019 to $27.5 million in 2020. The reaction to COVID-19 helped this: enterprises’ spending in response to the pandemic ranged from +3.8 percent in Germany to -0.7 percent in the UK, for an average of +2 percent.

• End-user experience focuses on pandemic reaction: 55 percent of organizations made significant or better improvements to the end-user experience this year, compared to 73 percent in 2019. However, 17 percent created an excellent end-user experience in their response to COVID-19.

“Enterprises understand that the real test will be in how they adapt to life and business in 2021 and beyond,” said Ravi Mayuram, SVP of Engineering and CTO at Couchbase. “The underlying issues that were preventing modernization of an aging digital stack have been brought to the forefront by the pandemic, and there is now even greater impetus to accelerate ‘digital transformation.’ This realization that aging infrastructure will not serve organizations’ new needs in a post-pandemic world where we will live, work and play remotely has tipped the scales in favor of new investments in innovation and modernization.”

The research suggests that, outside the pandemic, organizations are still struggling to meet their digital transformation goals. The need to divert resources in response to COVID-19 was the most common factor either preventing organizations from pursuing new digital transformation projects (affecting 31 percent of organizations), or causing those projects to fail, suffer delays, or be scaled back (affecting 29 percent). Yet more organizations were prevented from pursuing projects, or suffered project disruption, for reasons that had nothing to do with the pandemic. For instance:

• Technology challenges preventing projects: 55 percent of organizations could not pursue a digital transformation project for reasons besides COVID-19, including the complexity of implementing technologies (experienced by 31 percent), reliance on legacy technology that couldn’t meet new digital requirements (28 percent) and a lack of resources or funds (25 percent)

• COVID-19 not responsible for majority of project disruption: 50 percent of organizations suffered project disruption such as failure, delays, or scaling back for non-COVID-19 reasons, including the complexity of implementing new technologies (24 percent), lack of resources or funds (22 percent) and reliance on legacy technology (20 percent) that were nothing to do with the pandemic.

Disrupted projects don’t only have a financial cost, but can have a significant effect on business strategy. 72 percent of organizations have had to push their strategic goals back by more than a month or even reset them completely because of delayed, scaled-back or cancelled digital transformation projects.

“COVID-19 was a unique event: many of the challenges organizations face are far more deep-seated,” continued Mayuram. “Organizations that have worked so hard to adapt and succeed in 2020 should not see their gains lost because of issues that have been known for years. Instead, they should make sure they have the resources they need to build upon their experiences and truly succeed in digital transformation. This means having the technology, the skills, and the investment that will help drive innovation to new heights.”

AWS RE:INVENT — December 8, 2020 — Couchbase, the creator of the enterprise-class, multicloud to edge NoSQL database, today announced the availability of self-service trials for its Couchbase Capella Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS). The trial allows users to immediately get up and running with Couchbase Capella for free, hosted within their own virtual private cloud (VPC) on AWS. 

Couchbase also announced Couchbase Capella’s support for AWS regions in Mumbai, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney and Tokyo– expanding global coverage of the fully managed DBaaS. Finally, Couchbase Capella now offers the full suite of capabilities of Couchbase Server 6.6. This means that organizations can harness the benefits of advanced analytic processing, querying, full-text search and eventing services that greatly improve developer productivity, and by extension, the organization’s overall operational agility — in full production or as part of the new self-service trials. 

As organizations accelerate their digital transformation journeys, the need to quickly and efficiently scale their database infrastructure to meet increased processing demands has driven the adoption of DBaaS solutions. However, organizations need clarity on how DBaaS can meet their specific needs, and assurance that the features, pricing model and data ownership structure aligns with their unique requirements. The Couchbase Capella self-service trial enables organizations to experiment with this high-performance DBaaS in a production-grade environment, to find out how it can work for their business, all as part of one of the most comprehensive DBaaS trials on the market.

‘Full-fat’ functionality

While other DBaaS providers place limits on the functionality of their trial offers or require payment information up-front, the Couchbase Capella self-service trial configuration offers organizations a fully managed DBaaS with all the services and features of Couchbase Server included. Key features include:

– Full control: The trial follows Couchbase Capella’s philosophy of giving users total control and transparency over their data and its cost of operation. Instead of mandated hosting on shared infrastructure, the Couchbase Capella self-service trial is hosted on a dedicated cluster within the user’s own public cloud environment, giving total control to the user.

– Scale: While some DBaaS trial offerings on the market limit users to 500 MB of storage, the Couchbase Capella self-service trial offers up to 200 GB across three database nodes, and the choice of two AWS EC2 instance types for the cluster, enabling the creation of trial infrastructures that support millions of documents.

– Ease of access: Users sign up via the Couchbase website with no need to hand over any credit card information, allowing them to get up-and-running immediately. Since it’s hosted within the user’s own public cloud environment, the Couchbase Capella self-service trial does away with up-front payment; instead, users simply pay their public cloud provider for the infrastructure they use.

Supporting quotes:

“In less than six months, Couchbase Capella has come a long way. Couchbase has demonstrated impressive performance and ease of operations at scale. They have expanded globally, upgraded the environment’s engine to Couchbase Server 6.6 and added integrations. Now, with this self-service trial, they are making it easier for organizations to see for themselves, on their own and at their own pace, how productive they can be building applications using Couchbase Capella.”
–Carl Olofson, Research Vice President, IDC

“The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the digital transformation process for many organizations. As a result, data demands have intensified substantially, and demand for DBaaS has surged. Yet those organizations wanting to find out how DBaaS can work for them may have been put off by the risk of losing control of their data; or becoming locked into a restrictive, over-expensive pricing model. With the Couchbase Capella self-service trial, we’re giving users the opportunity to explore the full potential of DBaaS on their own terms.”
–Scott Anderson, SVP, Product Management & Business Operations, Couchbase

Resources:

• Download the Couchbase Capella free trial at www.couchbase.com/download/

• Read the blog

• Watch the Couchbase Capella presentation from Couchbase Connect.ONLINE

LONDON– December 3, 2020 – With a keen desire to get back on the road, travelers are cautiously resuming to search for and book flights and hotels. But travel players are facing a challenging new reality – one where performance, flexible operations and personalized service are quickly taking on a whole new meaning in order to remain relevant. 

To this end, Amadeus has extended its partnership with  Couchbase, the creator of the enterprise-class, multi-cloud to edge NoSQL database. The new multi-year agreement will see Amadeus using Couchbase to dynamically scale its levels of service and continue to deploy applications quickly. Couchbase’s versatile and cloud-agnostic database already powers a number of Amadeus applications across search, shopping and merchandising for airline and hotel customers, as well as Traveler-DNA (former Customer Experience Management) – and Amadeus will be adding more in line with evolving industry needs. 

Expanding its use of Couchbase is part of Amadeus’s strategy to continue taking advantage of the cloud and developing new applications to support the industry. Couchbase’s features such as integration with Kubernetes are an important element of this strategy, as well as its ease of use for developers, coupled with the agility and scalability to help solutions ramp up and complete faster. 

As a result, Amadeus developers have quickly adopted Couchbase, seeing a significantly decreased time-to-market thanks to reduced data friction issues and an easier integration with third-party partners. This represents a close fit with Amadeus’ platform approach – allowing engineers to solve a growing number of complex business challenges quickly and efficiently. Ultimately this partnership opens the way towards innovative solutions that can offer greater personalization, an essential need in the current environment.

“Supporting the recovery of the travel industry is our prime objective. We are currently in a highly challenging environment, where the industry is having to react at speed to changing traveler needs and demands.” said Sylvain Roy, SVP, Technology Platforms & Engineering, Amadeus.

Roy continued, “The ability to develop new travel applications and functionality quickly, whilst ensuring those that our customers already rely on continue operating at peak effectiveness, is critical. Couchbase’s database makes it much simpler for our engineers to focus on what they do best: solving our customers’ business challenges – all the while improving collaboration with partners and developers. Our growing partnership will help us deliver the enterprise-class performance, scale, flexibility, reliability and traveler focus that our customers need, enabling us also to innovate more freely in key areas such as merchandising, NDC or loyalty.”

“Amadeus is one of our largest and most important customers, and how they have used our technology is nothing short of impressive,” said Matt Cain, President and CEO, Couchbase. “Amadeus has built a truly scalable platform that enables them to dynamically adjust service levels as needed and simultaneously drive future innovation aligned to their digital transformation initiatives. We are proud of our partnership with Amadeus and the role we’ve been able to play in helping them provide delightful experiences for their customers in ever-changing circumstances. We look forward to further supporting them in powering the recovery of the travel industry.”

About Amadeus

Travel powers progress. Amadeus powers travel. Amadeus’ solutions connect travelers to the journeys they want through travel agents, search engines, tour operators, airlines, airports, hotels, cars and railways. 

We have developed our technology in partnership with the travel industry for over 30 years. We combine a deep understanding of how people travel with the ability to design and deliver the most complex, trusted, critical systems our customers need. We help connect over 1.6 billion people a year to local travel providers in over 190 countries. 

We are one company, with a global mindset and a local presence wherever our customers need us. 

Our purpose is to shape the future of travel. We are passionate in our pursuit of better technology that makes better journeys. 

Amadeus is an IBEX 35 company, listed on the Spanish Stock Exchange under AMS.MC. The company is also part of the EuroStoxx50 and has been recognized by the Dow Jones Sustainability Index for the last eight years. 

To find out more about Amadeus, visit www.amadeus.com.

SANTA CLARA, Calif., — November 19, 2020– Couchbase, the creator of the enterprise-class, multicloud to edge NoSQL database, today announced it has been named to Battery Ventures’ list of the 25 Highest-Rated Private Cloud Computing Companies to Work for During the COVID Crisis. The ranking is based on Couchbase’s Glassdoor reviews over the past six months, which demonstrates the company’s ability to lead during a crisis. And for the fourth consecutive year, Couchbase also announced it has been named to the Deloitte Technology Fast 500TM, a ranking of the 500 fastest growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences, and energy tech companies in North America.

This year’s Top Privately-Held Cloud-Computing Companies to Work For list is a twist on Battery’s annual list of highest-rated cloud firms in terms of employee happiness. The list is based on data collected during the first six months of the pandemic from jobs and recruiting site, Glassdoor, which measures employee satisfaction at work. Battery elected this year to focus on company ratings only during the pandemic, given the tremendous disruption COVID-19 has caused many companies. Couchbase’s inclusion on this list highlights the company’s ability to lead during a crisis. But more broadly, the rankings can be an indicator of corporate innovation, growth and strong financial performance.

“We are honored to be included on Battery’s list,” said Matt Cain, President and CEO of Couchbase.  “We are doing everything we can as a company to protect and help our employees and their families, along with our customers and partners, as we collectively navigate the challenges of this pandemic.  This recognition is really a testament to the character, dedication, and toughness of the extended Couchbase team and its unrelenting focus to do the right thing by those we serve.  We pride ourselves at Couchbase not only on what we do, but how we do it, and current circumstances are no exception.”

Couchbase’s inclusion in the Deloitte Technology Fast 500TM list, for the 4th consecutive year, recognizes the exceptionally high rate of growth achieved through a consistent focus on sustained differentiation and innovation in service of its customers.   New products launched over the past year include Couchbase Cloud, the fully-managed database as a service; Couchbase Server 6.6; Couchbase Sync Gateway and Couchbase Lite version 2.8; and Couchbase Autonomous Operator 2.0.  As a result, existing customers such as AppDynamics, AT&T, BD, Carrefour, and Zynga expanded their relationships and new logos including Bankinter, S.A, Evernote, Orange Espana and TripActions were added.  To support the continued expansion of the company, Couchbase grew its employee base substantially over the previous fiscal year.

“We are becoming the next great enterprise software company by simultaneously delivering sustained differentiation, driving long-term profitable growth, and building a world-class team,” continued Cain. “We are proud to be named to the Deloitte Technology Fast500 for the 4th consecutive year as a result of our continued focus and commitment to all of these areas as we accelerate growth of our technical innovation, our customer base, and our talent.  I’d like to thank our customers, partners and employees for making all of this possible.”

The two latest industry awards add to a growing list of recognition that Couchbase has garnered this year, including:

• DBTA Readers’ Choice Award: Best Database Overall

• DBTA Readers’ Choice Award: Best In-Memory Solution (3rd consecutive year)

• Glassdoor’s Top 5 Best Software Companies to Work For

• 2020 Bay Area Best Places to Work

• TrustRadius “Top Rated”

• 2020 Tech Ascension Awards: Cloud Innovator of the Year  

• DBTA 100: Companies that Matter the Most in Data

• Datanami Editors’ Choice Award: Top 5 Vendors to Watch

• JMP Securities Hot 100 List

• IDC Innovator

• Accel Open100

• Baird Disruptors 2020

• D.A. Davidson’s Herd 2020

About Battery Ventures

Battery strives to invest in cutting-edge, category-defining businesses in markets including software and services, Web infrastructure, consumer Internet, mobile and industrial technologies. Founded in 1983, the firm backs companies at stages ranging from seed to private equity and invests globally from offices in Boston, the San Francisco Bay Area, London, New York and Israel. Follow the firm on Twitter @BatteryVentures, visit our website at www.battery.com and find a full list of Battery’s portfolio companies here.

About Deloitte

Deloitte refers to one or more of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited, a UK private company limited by guarantee (“DTTL”), its network of member firms, and their related entities. DTTL and each of its member firms are legally separate and independent entities. DTTL (also referred to as “Deloitte Global”) does not provide services to clients. In the United States, Deloitte refers to one or more of the US member firms of DTTL, their related entities that operate using the “Deloitte” name in the United States and their respective affiliates. Certain services may not be available to attest clients under the rules and regulations of public accounting. Please see www.deloitte.com/about to learn more about our global network of member firms.

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — November 10, 2020 – Couchbase, the creator of the enterprise-class multicloud to edge NoSQL database, today announced it has partnered with VetsinTech  to enable veterans to accelerate their careers in the high-tech industry. Couchbase has joined the VetsinTech employer coalition, offering free training, mentorship, and professional development opportunities to veterans and active duty military transitioning from military to civilian life.

With nearly six million work-eligible veterans in the U.S., underemployment remains one of the greatest issues faced by veterans and military spouses. According to LinkedIn’s 2019 Veteran Opportunity Report, veterans are 15.6% more likely to be underemployed than nonveterans. Underemployment includes those who aren’t fully utilizing skills and abilities, may be working part time while pursuing learning goals, or take temporary or part time work while searching for a better career fit.

VetsinTech is a leading national non-profit dedicated to supporting veterans through tech-based education, employment, and entrepreneurship programs. The organization connects global technology companies with its more than 30,000 members through training and career development programs.

Couchbase’s participation in VetsinTech aligns with the company’s goal to connect veterans and military spouses with tech careers in which they can apply their exceptional training, skills, and experience. With veteran representation within its Executive Team and across key roles in its Engineering, People, and Sales teams, Couchbase continues to recruit transitioning active duty military and veterans to join its increasingly diverse team.

Supporting Quotes

“Expanding community support with leading companies such as Couchbase is the fuel that propels VetsinTech to help even more veterans embark on a meaningful career in the tech arena. We’re grateful to Couchbase for their recognition and support of our mission. This partnership with Couchbase exemplifies the power of tech organizations joining forces in a shared common vision of supporting our veterans through tech-based education, entrepreneurship and job opportunities.”
–Katherine Webster, Founder and CEO of VetsinTech

“Couchbase’s inclusive culture is made possible by the contributions and diversity of thought offered by team members with varied backgrounds and experiences. We are proud to count a growing number of veterans among our employees and honored to partner with VetsinTech to offer resources necessary to advance veteran careers in tech.”
–Chris Galy, Chief People Officer, Couchbase

Couchbase is hiring! Check out open positions on the career page at https://www.couchbase.com/careers/

About VetsInTech

Based in San Francisco, with more than 30,000 vets strong and 15 chapters across the country, VetsInTech is the leading national non-profit devoted 100% to springboarding veterans into tech careers. VetsinTech harnesses the national technology ecosystem to benefit veterans returning from active military duty and who want to apply their exceptional training, skills, and experience to a new career in technology. Comprised of technology industry leaders and former service members, VetsinTech is the only non-profit that supports our veterans through tech-based programs and opportunities in education, employment, and entrepreneurship. For more information, interested parties can visit www.vetsintech.co.

COUCHBASE CONNECT.ONLINE–October 16, 2020 – Couchbase, the creator of the enterprise-class, multicloud to edge NoSQL database, today announced more than 120 enterprises –representing some of the largest companies in the world–are using Couchbase Autonomous Operator, the most mature NoSQL database operator available on the market. As organizations accelerate their journey to the cloud, the need to automate and scale workloads and reduce costs has driven the adoption of containerization tools such as Kubernetes. Version 2.1, available this winter, extends Couchbase Autonomous Operator’s leading position, enabling greater standardization of developer services and increased control over costs.

Since its launch in August 2018, companies such as Amdocs, Amadeus, Staples, BD Health, CenterEdge, and several others have been leveraging Couchbase Autonomous Operator (CAO) as a key part of their cloud automation strategy. CAO plays an important role in organizational transformation towards a cloud-native, CI/CD DevOps model. Businesses have reported that CAO smooths organizational transformations, reducing operational complexity by 95% with a single, programmatic architecture for deployment. DevOps need only change a handful of values in a YAML configuration file to invoke a topological reassignment, rebalance or upgrade of an entire distributed Couchbase cluster environment, reducing the cluster maintenance workload from months down to a few keystrokes. This accelerating  adoption is a direct consequence of businesses being able to bring high-value applications to market more quickly. 

The rise of the cloud economy 

COVID-19 has accelerated adoption of cloud-native services such as containers even further. Placing greater urgency on digital transformation projects that previously would have taken four or five years, the pandemic has made swift cloud adoption a necessity rather than a ‘we’ll-get-there’ priority. Standardizing integration, operations and architecture is crucial for organizations to deploy on any cloud. And it’s crucial that each deployment is trustworthy so IT teams can focus on developing new services for the business vs. managing cloud architecture. These are key driving forces behind the popularity of Kubernetes, and consequently, the strong adoption of Couchbase Autonomous Operator.

Coming this winter: Couchbase Autonomous Operator 2.1

Each new feature in version 2.1 makes it simpler for teams to standardize the developer environment and infrastructure, reducing complexity and placing flexibility and control where it belongs – the IT team. Some of the features planned for Couchbase Autonomous Operator 2.1 include:

• Auto-scaling for stateless Couchbase services: To ensure that services always have the performance they need, without the risk that unchecked scaling will create unexpected costs, stateless Couchbase services such as Query and Ephemeral Bucket are scaled out or down automatically, based-on YAML-configured thresholds. As a result, organizations can presume peak performance without adding costs. 

• Usage metering reports: to ensure organizations can keep control of costs and usage, Autonomous Operator creates fine-tuned reports into historical cluster usage broken out over user-defined time periods. As a result, organizations know precisely what resources are used when and by whom, preventing unexpected usage and increasing control. 

• Support for Istio service mesh: As environments become larger and more complex, managing a distributed microservices infrastructure becomes increasingly difficult. By integrating Istio service mesh, Autonomous Operator 2.1 gives organizations the capabilities they need to manage any size of microservices architecture, including load balancing, service-to-service authentication and monitoring.

Supporting Quotes

“The latest version of Couchbase Autonomous Operator aims to further reduce complexity by automating the end-to-end deployment of hundreds of database clusters to offer a new level of standardization across cloud services. Alongside our other offerings such as Couchbase Cloud and Couchbase Mobile, Autonomous Operator 2.1 will further reduce the need for a separate control plane for databases and bring databases into standard CI/CD pipeline of application development.” 
— Ravi Mayuram, SVP of Engineering and CTO, Couchbase

What customers have said:

“As a software engineer, one of the things I am least excited about is managing shell scripts. The Couchbase Autonomous Operator for Kubernetes alleviates that pain and completely automates management of Couchbase on our Kubernetes cluster. It’s a game changer.”
–David Downey, Software Developer, BD Diabetes Care — Digital Health

“The Couchbase Autonomous Operator for Kubernetes is a marvelous addition to the Couchbase ecosystem, reducing our IT administration overhead by at least 80 percent. It sets the bar for all other clustered databases in any cloud environment.”
–Brant Burnett, Systems Architect, CenterEdge

“We are pleased to see another great update of the Couchbase Autonomous Operator. Overall, Couchbase Autonomous Operator for Kubernetes is a visionary technology that is focused on automating data management with new added features that effectively reduces human effort and time.”
–Girirajan Soundar Rajan, Senior Data Operations Engineer, Staples

Resources:

• For a deep dive into Couchbase Autonomous Operator, tune in to the Cloud Native track at Connect.ONLINE, which has nearly 20 presentations. Replays available on demand. Register at: https://www.couchbase.com/connect/

• Download Couchbase Enterprises Edition and Autonomous Operator today

COUCHBASE CONNECT.ONLINE– October 15, 2020 – Couchbase, the creator of the enterprise-class, multicloud to edge NoSQL database, today announced the availability of the Couchbase Associate Java Developer Certification program. A curriculum within Couchbase Academy, formerly Couchbase Training, the new certification program is the first of a new breed of upskilling opportunities for developers and database administrators to improve their foundational and practical knowledge of Couchbase’s solutions.

Couchbase Academy provides extensive hands-on learning experiences to help teams implement Couchbase products quickly and effectively. Whether you want to learn on your own or with the guidance of an in-person instructor, the Academy’s courses cover Couchbase NoSQL, data modeling, analytics, querying, indexing, searching, various software development kits (SDKs), administration topics, and we’re expanding our programs every quarter.

The new Couchbase Associate Java Developer program is an online channel to gain certification for developing with Couchbase products in mind. Access to the program is free, and students can earn certification when they complete a proctored exam for only a nominal fee.

The program focuses on related practical examples and highly interactive learning, coupled with a lab environment where Java Developers can test their newfound insights in hands-on use cases. Students are taken through a series of levels that culminate in developing a functional music app service, demonstrating along the way how Java engages with Couchbase solutions.

Program attendees can learn at their own pace and require no previous knowledge of Couchbase’s NoSQL database solutions. The course requires as few as 15 hours in total, followed by a 90 minute proctored exam under the supervision of a third party testing vendor.

“We developed the Couchbase Associate Java Developer program to be impactful and something developers can use effectively,” said Mark Secrist, Director, Technical Training at Couchbase. “Instructional portions leverage video, interactive components and granular features to keep attendees interested and engaged, typically in 5 to 20 minute stints. These are followed by lab sessions where the students are allowed to practice their newfound skills without impacting their production instances. Lab portions account for around two-thirds of the program, underlining how much this is focused on practical and tangible upskilling, designed to drive higher retention of presented information. Our program focuses on evolving code, which happens to be what developers do.”

The Couchbase Associate Java Developer program is the first of several new training initiatives at Couchbase and serves as a companion to its updated Developer Course. Couchbase offers numerous courses to train its user base, now increasingly expressed through personas, to help prospective students select the best tracks to fit their ambitions and requirements.

COUCHBASE CONNECT.ONLINE–October 15th, 2020-– Couchbase, the creator of the enterprise-class, multicloud to edge NoSQL database, today announced the winners of the first ever Couchbase Community Awards, alongside those of the 2020 Couchbase Partner Awards. Guest judges for the Couchbase Community Awards included Carl Olofson, Research Vice President at IDC, and Jon Reed, Co-Founder of Diginomica. 

Introduced as part of Couchbase’s Connect.ONLINE event, the Couchbase Community Awards recognize organizations’ work in accelerating the modernization of legacy databases and enabling innovation for enterprise-critical applications. Awarded separately for the Americas and EMEA, these first awards honored nine Couchbase customers across retail, logistics, healthcare, travel, fashion and product development. 

At the same time, the Couchbase Partner Awards recognized Red Hat, Infosys and Gluu. Open to Couchbase’s network of more than 300 partners, the awards recognize our partners’ work in bringing differentiation and innovation to customers, and leading them to successful outcomes as they pursue their digital modernization strategies.

Couchbase Community Awards Winners:

Advanced NoSQL architectures: 

• Americas winners: Staples/UPS

  • Staples adopted Couchbase enterprise-wide to support its customer-centric digital transformation journey: substantially improving the experience it offers, while increasing customer retention

  • UPS used Couchbase to overhaul its package visibility platform: meeting sub-millisecond response time requirements for key-value operations, managing more than 8 billion documents, and handling up to 460 million tracking requests with zero downtime  

• EMEA winner: Tesco

  • Using Couchbase to help customers through the worst of COVID-19-induced shortages, Tesco transformed its application architecture for faster delivery to customers while prioritizing delivery slots for the most vulnerable

Cloud computing:

• Americas winner: Facet Digital

  • Facet Digital used Couchbase Cloud to overhaul its legacy DBaaS platform, reducing TCO by 50 percent while increasing query performance by as much as 2,000 percent

• EMEA winner: Carrefour Spain

  • With Couchbase Cloud, Carrefour Spain implemented a cloud-first architecture using microservices and multi-dimensional scaling to ensure zero downtime, even at peak times

Community Architecture and Innovation:

• Americas winner: Backpack EMR

  • Used Couchbase to digitize a primarily paper-based healthcare delivery process, improving the patient experience and saving non-profit medical providers 20% compared with using paper charts

• EMEA winner: Prewave

  • Used Couchbase to create a live ‘disruption map’, identifying potential supply chain disruptions in light of COVID-19. Prewave reduced data loads from minutes to seconds, and went from proof of concept to production in just two months

Innovating at the Edge:

• Americas winner: Carnival Corporation

  • Used Couchbase to support its OCEAN Medallion offering, connecting each guest with a floating smart city – containing 7000 sensors, 4000 digital displays, 2,000+ crew sensors, and 1000s of guest sensors – across their entire guest experience 

• EMEA winner: PVH

  • PVH brand Tommy Hilfiger used Couchbase to revolutionize its buying process, creating a ‘virtual showroom’ that helps cut time to market for new collections, and reduces sample production by 80%

Couchbase Partner Awards winners:

Independent Software Vendor (ISV) Partner of the Year: Gluu

• Gluu has demonstrated Couchbase’s value as a modern, scalable, high performance NoSQL data platform. While some commercial systems can handle millions of logins a day, Gluu has used Kubernetes autoscaling, advanced cloud native technologies and Couchbase to perform over a billion authentications a day – transforming what is possible in the cloud

Cloud and Technology Ecosystem Partner of the Year: Red Hat

• In 2020, Red Hat extended Couchbase’s supported deployment platforms to multi- and hybrid cloud environments. This year’s release of Couchbase Autonomous Operator 2.0 certified for Red Hat OpenShift raised the bar, providing an advanced Kubernetes Operator with a ‘level 5’ capability rating.

System Integrator Partner of the Year: Infosys

• The Couchbase/Infosys partnership has continued to expand over the past year, with customer successes across industries including Telco and Media, Consumer/Retail/Logistics, and Utilities/Resources/Energy. New go to market solutions included the Infosys Health Insights Platform, which leverages Couchbase as the “golden record” for ‘patient 360’ data and makes advanced use of Couchbase Analytics capabilities to enable Machine Learning and AI applications. 

“Companies around the world have faced multiple challenges during 2020, from adopting new ways of working almost overnight, to adapting to rapidly changing markets and new business opportunities. Our Couchbase Community Award winners have all demonstrated the ability to use data to transform their businesses, creating new services and solutions that are revolutionizing their industries. Our community –our end-users and partners alike — continue to inspire us with the opportunities they uncover, and we’re looking forward to seeing what they achieve in 2021 and beyond.”
–Matt Cain, President and CEO, Couchbase

COUCHBASE CONNECT.ONLINE–October 14, 2020: Couchbase, the creator of the enterprise-class, multicloud to edge NoSQL database, today announced version 2.8 of Couchbase Lite and Couchbase Sync Gateway for mobile and edge computing applications. Available today, the release gives organizations the power to take full advantage of a distributed cloud architecture, creating always-fast, always-on applications that guarantee business uptime even in a disconnected computing environment. 

Edge computing continues to grow in importance; according to IDC, edge networks will represent more than 60 percent of all deployed cloud infrastructures by 2023 as enterprises increasingly realize the availability and responsiveness benefits it offers. With version 2.8, Couchbase offers enterprises the latest advancements in mobile and edge computing via the latest peer-to-peer sync and Sync Gateway replication technologies.  

Always-fast, Always-on applications with Couchbase Lite peer-to-peer sync

Business-critical, offline-first applications that operate in disconnected computing environments for extended periods of time, such as emergency response applications, rugged field service devices,  or airline handheld meal ordering systems, need to stay up and running to ensure service continuity, customer satisfaction, and in some cases even personal safety. These applications can only guarantee uptime through direct collaboration between the edge devices. Only Couchbase Lite 2.8’s peer-to-peer sync solution offers secure storage and bidirectional synchronization of data between the edge devices without the need for a centralized cloud-based control point, keeping data flowing and applications running 100% of the time.

Distributed cloud deployments with Sync Gateway replication technology

Enterprises that have adopted a cloud-centric model for deploying applications are now dealing with challenges of Internet latency and unreliability as well as data privacy concerns that can lead to poor customer experience and costly business downtime. The challenges can be overcome by shifting to a distributed cloud-to-edge architecture where only relevant data is stored in the cloud. However, for real time applications requiring 100% business availability and governed by stringent data privacy rules, data processing is done at the edge, closer to the source of data.

The new replication capability in Couchbase Sync Gateway 2.8, in combination with Couchbase Lite 2.8 and Couchbase Server, supports the distributed cloud model at every tier– from the cloud to the edge– securely synchronizing data between web, mobile, and IoT apps and the backend database as well as between cloud and edge data centers. The latest capabilities ensure that critical information never stops moving between the applications and the end users who need it.

Supporting quotes:

“For the new version of our VECMAP software we required a database platform with flexibility and offline-first capabilities for our users. We picked Couchbase from the very first developer build as it provides these features in a strong and reliable package, allowing us to focus on bringing the best of our expertise at Avia-GIS to the software functionalities. Continuous improvements from Couchbase means Couchbase Mobile is the preferred solution for our mobile applications.”
–Bart de Groot, IT Director, Avia-GIS

“The peer-to-peer sync Couchbase supports has become the standard for mobile and embedded apps that need to share data securely, quickly without fail, without the need for a cloud-based control point or an internet connection.”
–Daniele Angeli, Founder & CEO, MOLO17 

“Maintaining current data on occasionally connected devices has been a key aim of database software firms for a long time, but the current trends, involving the processing of high volume and fast-changing edge data, adds a new dimension of challenge to this old problem. It is critical that enterprises act on such data where it will do the most good. With these new capabilities designed to enable users to do just that, Couchbase continues to innovate on its mobile database technology, ensuring that its customers are well-positioned to take advantage of this trend.”
–Carl Olofson, Research Vice President, IDC

“Enterprises of all types are continuing to explore what edge computing has to offer, and we’re starting to approach the point where it reaches its full potential. By making applications less and less reliant on synchronization with a central server, we’re giving enterprises the tools they need to take full advantage of edge. Regardless of their environment, enterprises can seamlessly spin up new edge deployments as and when they’re needed, and take advantage of enhanced data transfer capabilities that make edge applications smarter than ever.”
–Ravi Mayuram, Senior Vice President of Engineering and CTO, Couchbase

Resources:

• Read the blog

• Solutions Page for Edge Computing

• Solutions Page for Peer-to-Peer Sync

New York – Oct. 7, 2020: Infosys Public Services, a US-based subsidiary of Infosys (NYSE: INFY), a global leader in next-generation digital services and consulting, today unveiled the Infosys Health Insights Platform (IHIP) – an automated data science platform for public health agencies developed in collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Couchbase, and Knowi. The new platform is part of the Infosys Cobalt’s growing portfolio of 14,000 cloud assets. Built on AWS, this new platform will help agencies scale their analytics capabilities and turn massive amounts of data into valuable insights and actionable recommendations.

IHIP enables public health agencies to aggregate, manage and analyze data in disparate formats and from multiple sources using advanced data science and artificial intelligence (AI). This includes unstructured data like sensor data, caseworker notes, and social media posts, most of which are not readily usable by existing platforms. IHIP provides a single platform that enables agencies to harness data to generate predictive insights and actionable intelligence. The insights will lead to more robust decision- and policy-making, particularly when managing outbreaks like COVID-19, addressing the drug [and opioid] abuse crises, studying the impact of social determinants of health, and getting a clear view of the overall health (clinical, behavioral and mental) of populations.

IHIP will also spur collaboration, allowing multiple groups of public health workers – including analysts, data scientists, researchers, epidemiologists, caseworkers, and policymakers – to work together to deliver proactive and specific interventions to the constituents they serve. In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, the platform can help stakeholders explore various public health concerns, including identifying high-risk individuals, forecasting hotspots of infection spread, and recommending insights on implementing or easing restrictions to manage the crisis better.

“COVID-19 has shown us the need for crucial data analytics capabilities and tools for government agencies. It has also exposed the various issues with the tools available to public health agencies around the world. IHIP will help agencies quickly build next-generation analytics and data science capabilities to turn their data into actions,” said Eric Paternoster, President, and CEO at Infosys Public Services. “We will leverage the Infosys Cobalt community and its vast data management, analytics, and artificial intelligence capabilities to help federal, state, and local officials discover data-driven insights to guide public health decisions that are tailored to their constituents’ needs.”

“By building on its basic capabilities and adding a data governance framework, DevOps pipeline, a FHIR data model and API library, Infosys will enable the efficient and fast exchange of patient health care records,” said Adelaide O’Brien, research director, IDC Government Insights. “These capabilities coupled with its “self-driving” advanced analytics and AI platform are available at an opportune time for providing a 360 view of the impact of COVID-19 on spread direction, contact exposure patterns, high risk communities/hot zones, and will allow agencies to predict virus spread, issue alerts for prescriptive care interventions, and improve population health management by preventing further spread.”

The Infosys Public Services team developed and optimized the IHIP platform in collaboration with AWS, Couchbase, and Knowi, three leaders in cloud, data management, and advanced data science space. The platform leverages many AWS services such as AWS Lambda, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon Athena, Amazon EMR, and Amazon Redshift. AWS worked with Infosys to optimize the platform to be serverless. The companies bring together their combined strength in data analytics and decades of experience working with government health agencies. IHIP was recently selected by the American Council for Technology – Industry Advisory Council as a finalist for its 2020 Igniting Innovation Awards,

“We are delighted that the Infosys Health Insights Platform is built on AWS. Collaborating with Infosys on solution architecture design and performance helped drive the demands that evolving data and AI technologies place on speed, security, and processing power,” said Sandy Carter, Vice President, Partner and Programs, at Amazon Web Services, Inc. “With AWS as a core component, the Infosys Health Insights Platform will enable organizations to meet these demands and better address population health needs. The platform also leverages AWS’s pre-built storage, data orchestration, analytics, and security services, which can reduce the infrastructure procurement and development time for agencies by as much as half, enabling them to focus valuable time and resources on serving their citizens.”

“As the most advanced NoSQL database, Couchbase provides a modern data management architecture for the Infosys Health Insights Platform,” said Matt McDonough, SVP of Business Development and Strategy at Couchbase. “From rapid aggregation of different types of data to multi-dimensional scaling and intuitive search capabilities, our database enables IHIP to use the growing volume of unstructured and semi-structured data for lightning fast performance, real time insights, and persistence.”

“Turning data into meaningful visualizations is important for agencies to make better decisions,” said Ryan Levy, COO at Knowi. “Through Knowi’s unified analytics component, agencies can use the Infosys Health Insights Platform to see the information the way they want, where they want, and when they want it. And by leveraging Knowi’s Search-Based analytics, agencies can simply ask questions of their data and receive actionable data and visualizations right away”

Visit www.infosyspublicservices.com/IHIP for more details about the Infosys Health Insights Platform. For insights on how government healthcare organizations are turning data into action with AI, view this virtual panel discussion or download this whitepaper.

About Infosys Public Services, Inc.

Infosys Public Services is a leader in next-generation digital services and consulting. With benchmark processes, access to cross-industry insights and innovative solutions, Infosys Public Services is helping public sector organizations to navigate their digital transformation, helping them renew existing systems into modern, agile, intelligent platforms, develop new capabilities and deliver better outcomes to all stakeholders at a lower cost with less risk.

Navigate your next with Infosys Public Services. Visit www.infosyspublicservices.com to see how.

About Infosys Ltd.

Infosys is a global leader in next-generation digital services and consulting. We enable clients in 46 countries to navigate their digital transformation. With nearly four decades of experience in managing the systems and workings of global enterprises, we expertly steer our clients through their digital journey. We do it by enabling the enterprise with an AI-powered core that helps prioritize the execution of change. We also empower the business with agile digital at scale to deliver unprecedented levels of performance and customer delight. Our always-on learning agenda drives their continuous improvement through building and transferring digital skills, expertise, and ideas from our innovation ecosystem.

Visit www.infosys.com to see how Infosys (NYSE: INFY) can help your enterprise navigate your next.

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SANTA CLARA, Calif., September 30, 2020 — Couchbase, the creator of the enterprise-class, multicloud to edge NoSQL database, today announced that CFO Greg Henry will be delivering a fireside chat during the Goldman Sachs Private Company Software Conference taking place online October 5-6, 2020.

Henry’s chat is scheduled for 10:40 to 11:20 a.m. Pacific Time on Tuesday, October 6, with several investor meetings taking place the same day. For additional information, please contact IR@couchbase.com 

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — September 17, 2020 –– Couchbase, creator of the enterprise-class, multicloud to edge NoSQL database, today announced the addition of a third day to its annual developer conference, Couchbase Connect.ONLINE, now taking place October 14-16, 2020. The free online event will feature speakers from Infosys, Red Hat, Amdocs, Amadeus, Beckton Dickenson, CenterEdge, Tikeasy, MindTickle, Trendyol, and more.

The three-day event, sponsored by Infosys, CData, and erwin, will include presentations from Couchbase customers, partners, and developers, alongside Couchbase’s own team of experts, to discuss development and deployment best practices with Couchbase. Session tracks include Development, Couchbase Server, Mobile & Edge, Run Couchbase on Containers, Query & Indexing, Analytics FTS & Eventing, and Training & Awards. Attendees will glean insights they need to build new applications and services while interacting live with presenters and Couchbase technical experts. A sampling of speakers and their presentations include:

• Erdem Erbas, Developer, Trendyol: Why Couchbase? Use Cases at Trendyol, the Amazon-like retailer of Turkey

• Ferenc Fabian, Senior Software Engineer, Fluid Pay: Couchbase with Go language from Version 0 to 2

• Douglas Rohde, Software Engineer, ScienceLogic: Orchestrating a Coucbase CE Cluster in Docker Swarm with Couchcontrol

• Daniele Angeli, Founder & CEO, MOLO17: Zulu Emergency: A Couchbase Mobile Use Case in the Emergency Sector

• Kishan Iyer, Pluralsight Trainer & Content Engineer, Loonycorn: Cluster Management in Couchbase

Couchbase Connect.ONLINE will also feature the inaugural Couchbase Community Awards program, recognizing organizations and individuals throughout the Couchbase community who are accelerating the modernization of legacy applications, moving to the cloud and enabling innovation for enterprise-critical applications. Finalists will be announced during the event, and members of the Couchbase community will have the opportunity to vote for the winners. The finalists will be determined by a panel of four judges, including:

• Carl Olofson, Vice President, IDC

• Jon Reed, Co-Founder of Diginomica

• Perry Krug, Director of Customer Success, Couchbase

• Mary Roth, Vice President of Engineering Operations, Couchbase

“We are pleased to extend this year’s developer event, Couchbase Connect.ONLINE, by another day to accommodate the high interest from members of our community to present and attend,” said Peter Finter, SVP and CMO of Couchbase. “With now more than 100 presentations, we promise a content-rich event with access to our experts to facilitate the interactive idea exchange that we all appreciate from in-person events of the past.”

Resources:

• Event Agenda

• Register for Couchbase Connect.ONLINE here

• There is still time to submit your session for consideration here

SANTA CLARA, Calif., September 14, 2020 — Couchbase, the creator of the enterprise-class, multicloud to edge NoSQL database, today announced that CFO Greg Henry will be presenting at the Jefferies Virtual Software Conference taking place September 14-15, 2020.

Henry will be speaking from 11:30 to 11:55 a.m. Pacific Time on Tuesday, September 15 and holding virtual meetings on that same day. A live webcast of Henry’s chat will be available at the following link. For additional information, please contact IR@couchbase.com 

SANTA CLARA, Calif., September 8, 2020 – Couchbase, the creator of the enterprise-class, multicloud to edge NoSQL database, today announced that Couchbase Server is now available through Red Hat Marketplace where it is managed by Couchbase’s industry-leading Autonomous Operator certified for Red Hat OpenShift deployments. The latest development represents an advancement in Couchbase’s technical and go-to-market collaboration with Red Hat, which now extends the power and ease of use of the Couchbase on Red Hat OpenShift solution with a simplified consumption alternative for enterprise customers.

Red Hat Marketplace is an open cloud marketplace for enterprise customers to discover, try, purchase, deploy, and manage certified container-based software across environments—public and private, cloud and on-premises. Through the marketplace, customers can take advantage of responsive support, streamlined billing and contracting, simplified governance, and single-dashboard visibility across clouds. And with Red Hat Marketplace, Couchbase can now be deployed on IBM Cloud, along with other leading public cloud vendors.

Built on powerful NoSQL technology, Couchbase delivers high performance at scale, and coupled with Couchbase Autonomous Operator, simplifies the complexity of running stateful NoSQL database clusters in any Red Hat OpenShift or Kubernetes environment to achieve application portability across any hybrid cloud deployment. With features like memory-first architecture and multidimensional scaling, Couchbase Server excels at supporting business-critical applications at scale while maintaining submillisecond latencies and 99.999% availability. With comprehensive SQL-compatible query language (N1QL), indexing, full-text search, eventing, analytics and support for multi-document ACID transactions, among other services, Couchbase Server offers a broad range of capabilities to enable application modernization and migration from RDBMS.

“Red Hat and Couchbase have been helping enterprise developers, architects and dev/ops leaders accelerate the delivery of highly scalable business-critical applications across hybrid cloud environments,” said Anthony Farinha, Senior Director of Business Development, Couchbase. “The ability to quickly consume and deploy Couchbase in Red Hat Marketplace makes it even easier for customers to get started with Couchbase and architect their cloud-native and modernized applications to run Red Hat OpenShift clusters across multiple environments and availability zones, at global scale.”

Built in collaboration with Red Hat and IBM, Red Hat Marketplace delivers a hybrid multicloud trifecta for organizations moving into the next era of computing: a robust ecosystem of partners, an industry-leading Kubernetes container platform, and award-winning commercial support—all on a highly scalable backend powered by IBM. A private, personalized marketplace is also available through Red Hat Marketplace Select, enabling clients to provide their teams with easier access to curated software their organizations have pre-approved.

“We believe Red Hat Marketplace is an essential destination to unlock the value of cloud investments,” said Lars Herrmann, senior director of technology partnerships, Red Hat. “With the marketplace, we are making it as fast and easy as possible for companies to implement the tools and technologies that can help them succeed in this hybrid multicloud world. We’ve simplified the steps to find and purchase tools like Couchbase Server that are tested, certified and supported on Red Hat OpenShift, and we’ve removed operational barriers to deploying and managing these technologies on Kubernetes-native infrastructure.”

“Through Red Hat Marketplace, we’re expanding our ecosystem together with partners like Couchbase and helping our customers thrive in a hybrid multicloud world,” said Sandesh Bhat, IBM General Manager, Open Cloud Technology & Applications. “Container-based environments are the future of enterprise technology, and Red Hat OpenShift is the industry’s most comprehensive enterprise Kubernetes platform. We’re excited to simplify software purchase and adoption for our clients through a curated private Marketplace experience.”

Red Hat Marketplace is designed to meet the unique needs of developers, procurement teams and IT leaders through simplified and streamlined access to popular enterprise software. All solutions available through the marketplace have been tested and certified for Red Hat OpenShift, allowing them to run anywhere OpenShift runs. A containers-based approach helps ensure that applications can be run and managed the exact same way, regardless of the underlying cloud infrastructure. This gives companies the flexibility to run their workloads on premise or in any public or private cloud with improved portability and confidence that their applications and data are protected against vendor lock-in.

Additional Resources
● Link to Couchbase on Red Hat Marketplace
● Learn more about Red Hat

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — September 1, 2020 –  Couchbase, the creator of the enterprise-class multicloud to edge NoSQL database, has announced that Couchbase Cloud, its fully managed Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS), has delivered a 100x performance improvement and a cost reduction of 50% for Facet Digital when compared to its previous DBaaS solution, CosmosDB. Based in Kirkland, Washington, Facet Digital is a full-service product strategy, design, and development agency specializing in delivering database applications and solutions that run at the edge.

Facet Digital’s systems provide fast performance that helps customers quickly scale-out applications. Before Couchbase Cloud, its environment had become increasingly difficult to manage and deliver the agility required to meet customer expectations. Couchbase Cloud’s built-in Elasticsearch connectors was a key deciding factor, helping reduce a client’s migration time from one hour to three minutes in one example. The significant saving of DevOps time delivers an immediate cost-benefit that can be passed on to Facet Digital’s customers.

With the organization rolling out solutions globally, Facet Digital also needed to ensure the environment could meet the security and legislative requirements of any territory. “Couchbase Cloud provides a managed service inside your own AWS iteration that addresses the need to have complete control over sensitive data in highly regulated industries such as financial services,” said Scott W. Bradley, Principal Engineer at Facet Digital. “There is no equal to Couchbase Cloud. It has the best pricing and performance we have seen from a DBaaS offering.”

Couchbase Cloud has also enabled Facet Digital to drastically improve the productivity surrounding setting up and optimizing a new cluster. “With Couchbase Cloud, we have consolidated our infrastructure from three different products into one simplified platform,” said Jeremy Groh, Principal Engineer at Facet Digital. “It used to take me 3½ days to get our legacy hosted solution set up, but now I can spin up a new cluster in 20 minutes or less.” The reduced set up time represents 4,000% in time savings. And because Couchbase Cloud is optimized out of the box, Facet Digital has improved productivity by 8,000%, ultimately passing savings to customers so they can allocate more resources toward their own innovative programming initiatives.

Read the Facet Digital case study here.