Russian Railways and Postgres Professional have entered into a three-year cooperation license agreement

2022: Postgres Pro DBMS Technical License Agreement

On March 31, 2022, the company Postgres Professional announced that OJSC "" RUSSIAN RAILWAY signed a three-year agreement providing the possibility of unlimited use of licenses. Postgres Pro DBMS This will allow the company to actively develop digital services, which are based on constantly growing volumes, data to continue implementing policies import substitution aimed at achieving technological independence.

Russian Railways conducted comprehensive functional and load testing of various DBMS and opted for Postgres Professional. Testing has shown the ability of this software to support tasks of any complexity with the required performance and in full. The transition to this DBMS is fully consistent with the plan of measures of Russian Railways aimed at preferential use of domestic software for all classes used in the company.

Achieving technological independence is one of the key points of the Strategy for Digital Transformation of Russian Railways. For the information infrastructure of the Holding, domestic software products that have passed functional and load testing are selected. The main factors of selection are functionality, security, productivity and economic effect.

Postgres Pro licenses planned for purchase will be used in automated systems that support the company's most important production processes, such as:

• processing of transportation documents in the electronic document management system from departure to arrival, entry and processing of various types of auxiliary documents;
• asynchronous messaging of Russian Railways automated systems;
• Planning and monitoring of local work;
• management of passenger traffic, and others.

For us, the appearance of another large customer is a new opportunity to develop technologies and improve the product, "he said.