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PhoneBurner Calls Percona For Database Managed Services

The Percona ExpertOps team is responsible for managing, updating, and maintaining PhoneBurner’s database installations. Percona has empowered the PhoneBurner team with round-the-clock database expertise, effectively providing operational insurance that the team can access additional resources if an issue ever comes up that could affect performance. The PhoneBurner team can also work with Percona to effectively brainstorm ideas around how to improve operations and activities around the company’s data. This access to insight and experience enables PhoneBurner’s operations engineers to enhance its voiceover IP platforms and continually modernize its core infrastructure, based on resilient and well-supported database architecture.
Customer

PhoneBurner

Industry

Software

Company Size

50-200

Support and Services

Percona ExpertOps

Technology

MySQL

The Problem

With sales, every second counts toward effective performance and more efficient selling. Since 2008, PhoneBurner has assisted sales professionals in reaching out to clients and prospects more effectively via a communication platform that seamlessly integrates with the professional’s sales pipeline and customer relationship management tools. The company’s service drives results for clients by helping salespeople be smarter, fresher, better organized, and more productive on the phone.

PhoneBurner provides a power dialer solution that enables users to engage in more meaningful telephone communications with clients and prospects. As a highly interconnected service facilitating real-time communication, PhoneBurner’s power dialer solution must be available and perform effectively. The PhoneBurner technology team, led by Chief Technology Officer Kevin Reeves and DevOps Manager Jack Peterson, is responsible for delivering that quality of service and performance to customers.

While the company’s existing technology stack was working well, the team could see that it would face more bottlenecks when it came to managing the databases at the heart of its real-time communications platform. Rather than wait for any potential problems to arise, Reeves and Peterson decided to look for outside expertise.

 

The Solution

The PhoneBurner team chose Percona as its partner for managed database services because of Percona’s depth of database management talent and expertise across multiple database platforms. In choosing Percona, PhoneBurner was able to offload the responsibility of monitoring and optimizing its database installations while also bolstering its internal team’s knowledge and skills.

In addition, PhoneBurner benefits from Percona’s database management, resiliency, and backup expertise. With multiple thoroughly tested backup mechanisms in place, the team at PhoneBurner is confident in their ability to meet their customers’ requirements for data protection and availability for the foreseeable future.

 

Key Takeaways

PhoneBurner relies on Percona ExpertOps to oversee its critical database instances and provide valuable expertise and insights to its internal tech team. With a customer base that demands exceptional performance to power their sales professionals, PhoneBurner and Percona’s collaboration ensures that the company can meet those requirements now and in the future. Alongside using Percona ExpertOps, PhoneBurner also benefits from the insights that the Percona team shares around query performance improvements, update planning, and preventing database issues.

PhoneBurner benefits from:

  • Better performance and availability for its database instances
  • Access to skills and service support to complement the existing technology team
  • Improvements around query design and update deployment

By entrusting the management of front-line alerts, database performance monitoring, and the resolution of paged events to the team at Percona, we’ve been able to redirect our focus towards other aspects of our infrastructure. Addressing our primary concern and bottleneck in delivering an optimized customer experience, Percona’s involvement has been a catalyst for our team’s ability to improve our infrastructure and processes. Additionally, Percona has equipped our team with profound DBA expertise that we occasionally leverage to enhance queries, assess upgrades, and triage database-related issues.

Kevin Reeves
Chief Technology Officer, PhoneBurner

About PhoneBurner

PhoneBurner is a sales acceleration company that proudly launched its power dialling platform in 2008. Based in Ladera Ranch, California, the company is united in a single mission – to help people who use the phone as a relationship-building and selling tool to do it better. The company helps salespeople be smarter, fresher, better organized and more productive on the phone.

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Enough.

Said no pioneer ever.
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