Rising License Renewals
The operator's fleet tracking and warehouse management systems ran on Sybase ASE, with annual license renewal costs climbing steadily while the platform itself received no meaningful new capability in return.
Case Study · Sybase S2PIM — PostgreSQL Migration
Cutting Database Costs With a Cloud PostgreSQL Move
A mid-market logistics operator was absorbing rising Sybase ASE license renewals with no roadmap benefit in return. An S2PIM-driven migration moved the platform to Azure Flexible Server, cutting database licensing spend by more than 60%.
60%+
Database licensing cost reduction
90%+
Schema conversion automated
12 Wks
Duration
The Challenge
A Growing Line Item With No Growing Value
No Path to Elastic Scaling
Seasonal peak volumes during shipping surges required manual capacity planning on fixed on-premises ASE hardware — there was no straightforward way to scale compute up and back down with demand.
Manual Operational Overhead
Backup verification, patching, and failover testing on the on-premises ASE instance consumed ongoing DBA time that a managed cloud database service could absorb automatically.
The Approach
An S2PIM Migration to a Managed Cloud PostgreSQL Target
OptiSol scoped the migration to Azure Flexible Server from the outset, so the schema conversion and the cloud landing zone were designed together rather than as two separate projects.
Discovery & S2PIM Scan
S2PIM scanned the fleet tracking and warehouse management schemas, cataloguing tables, stored procedures, and data volumes, and producing a report scoping conversion complexity against the Azure Flexible Server target.
Automated Conversion
DDL and stored procedure logic were converted automatically from T-SQL to PL/pgSQL at over 90% automation, with datatype mappings and constraint syntax resolved without manual rewriting.
The Impact
