When a company is diverse and busy enough to deliver software development services and at the same time evolve and market a retail management system, process automation is a necessity. And when it comes to databases—which constitute a vital part of their custom products—automation would allow shifting the focus to more attention-demanding things and solve several pressing challenges at hand:
After quite a few tools were tried and tested—the Allspoke team were even about to start developing their own database management solution—Mark Stratton, the company's CTO, came across dbForge Studio for MySQL. It became evident from the beginning that it was the solution they were looking for.
Database design, structure management and updates, query building, schema backup and recovery—all of these routine operations were streamlined with the help of the Studio over a short period of time. Several features were mentioned by Mark as especially useful.
