Open Source an Important Asset for Digital Transformation

Open Source an Important Asset for Digital Transformation

More than ever, digital transformation is essential for companies to survive and thrive. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, brick-and-mortar business models are losing relevance as office workers, customers, and consumers, disappear from workplaces and shopfronts, sheltering themselves in the safety of their homes and preferring to interact virtually.
 
To survive, organisations have no choice but to digitally transform their business models to align themselves to the new normal. They need to be agile, flexible and innovative to pick up on unexpected opportunities that will emerge in the post-Covid era.
 
At a roundtable event, hosted by enterprise PostgreSQL provider and contributor, EDB, CIOs from across the Asia region discussed the pro’s and con’s of using open source databases. Following is a summary of the discussion.