What Makes Me Proud of My Company

A project manager for a small business needed a document database. His first call was to the biggest company in the industry. He downloaded a copy of their database and then contacted their customer service team. Once he described his company and project, he asked them for a price.

They said, “Sure, let me get back to you on that.”

They never did.

He asked about price stability. He wanted to know that if agreed to start a yearly subscription today, would the price stay roughly what he could expect to pay a few years from now.

They said, “Sure, let me get back to you on that.”

They never did.

He got in contact with us. We gave him a live demo about our database. We showed him our price list. We told him what he could expect the price to be in a few years.

We walked him through everything he needed to know.

More than money. More than funding. More than market share, I am proud to dedicate myself to building something that enables my users to achieve what they are working on faster and easier.

I have been a developer for 20 years. Nothing makes me happier than to create something that gets a programmer to say to himself, “Awesome, this is exactly what I need.”

I don’t care how much money your company is able to put in my pocket. If you are using RavenDB to create an application, I will do everything I can to make your journey as smooth as possible by helping you with whatever you need.

Even as the CEO, I love working for my clients.?

We do as Much Work as Possible

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Ravens know how to work smart. One raven was spotted dropping large rocks in a bucket so the water level would rise high enough for her to drink. Another raven dropped walnuts onto a highway so the cars would crack the shells and the raven could retrieve the nuts.

My database, RavenDB, enables every developer to do the same. Data related tasks that a developer would normally be responsible for, we have already taken care of.

I developed enough applications in my day to know what the database is responsible for, what the developer is responsible for, and the grey area that a good database will do for you.

Creating indexes, caching, data compression, full-text search, setting up security, mapReduce, are all ready for you. Why should you be working on things like caching when there is so much work to be done to get the application itself ready?

Multiple clients have reported how much time they saved. One client, a startup, planned to go live in a year. Using RavenDB, they went to market in six months.?

Our Success is Measured in Terms of YOUR Success

I started my company as the lone developer in the basement of my home. I can name at least 20 times a small hurdle could have become a bottomless pit. Every minor detail conquered smooths out the long road ahead.

The biggest threat to any project is delays, especially when the company is at the early stages of its development. I make sure all my error messages are, how do I say, in English, and not some binary language only an MIT supercomputer can decipher.

They are detailed, understandable, and very clear.

Tech support is supposed to be your insurance against disaster, not my investment in it.

Insurance is something you need to have, but never want to use. RavenDB is built to minimize the need for tech support. We have clients that put RavenDB into their applications in 2013 and haven’t touched it since.

That’s what I want for my clients, a problem free experience. There are so many built in checks, fixes, and alerts to RavenDB, problems are solved at the “quick fix” level.?

These are the results of a team as passionate about building the right software component as it is selling it.

We create what our users need.

Why I Built RavenDB in the Frist Place?

After saying to myself for the thousandth time, “Boy, if I could do this differently, here’s what I would do,” I finally put my money where my mouth is.

What makes me so proud of my team is that we delivered.

Every piece of information in this world is placed in a database, retrieved from a database, and stored in a database. Our contribution is to make the process of managing today’s unprecedented level of human knowledge more convenient for all of us to access.

Oren Eini?is the CEO of?RavenDB, a NoSQL Distributed Database, and RavenDB Cloud, its?Managed Cloud Service?(DBaaS). Oren is a Microsoft MVP and a DZone Hall of Famer with over 3.5 million views over ten years writing about NoSQL Database Technology, the .NET Ecosystem, and Software Development. He has been blogging for more than 15 years using his alias?Ayende Rahien.

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