SQLBase at work: Micro managing a cloud environment with SQLBase – Unit4 customer solution

UNIT4 creates, develops, markets and delivers a wide range of business software products and related services that enable customers to embrace even the most frenetic ongoing business change. The UNIT4 Multivers product is an ERP application focused on handling the financial administration of small and medium businesses. And is used by more than 18.000 organizations in the Netherlands and Belgium. The product was first released in 1995, and counts more than 700 forms and 200 reports. It uses UNIFY SQLBase as its database engine, with customer databases exceeding 2 GB in size. In 2006 the application was launched in a hosted Citrix environment, known as UNIT4 Multivers Online. This environment since then grew to serve more than 4000 customers and 13.000 databases. In this session UNIT4 will show how they approached this, the pitfalls they encountered and how they can be changed from a weakness to a strength. SQLBase is known to not scale well to hundreds of concurrent users. By dynamically creating SQLBase server instances we can scale out to serve thousands of concurrent application users. Each having their own private SQLBase server instances hosting their own databases. UNIT4 Multivers Online is now one of our key successes in the cloud market.