>>Mhm >>Welcome to this preview of couch based connect online 2021. My name is Dave Volonte with the cube and we're here with couch based ceo matt cain matt. Good to see you again. Welcome >>Thanks Dave. Great to be here. >>We are super excited at the Cube to partner with Couch Base this year to share the news, the analysis from connect online 21. What can attendees expect from the event this year? What's the theme? What can people really take away? >>They were fired up, you know, there is no different. Our theme this year is modernized now and it's something that we're hearing from our customers across the world is they think about leveraging technology to get closer to their customers and at the top of every one of their strategic agendas is figuring out how to build the best applications to service our needs as our personal lives and in our business lives and we're really focused on talking about the technology that we uniquely architected to enable this that stands aspects of relational database technology and new capabilities, leveraging those people technology, putting that into an integrated platform and really supporting customers. And we love talking about what we built Dave but we love even more when our customers share what they've been doing with our platform, customers like Pepsi and Amadeus and American greetings, you're going to hear them and their development meant teams talk about how they have leverage couch base to solve some of the most fundamental application challenges and how that's really opening up new businesses for them in their end markets. >>Let's talk a little bit more mad about that, the modernized now. I mean the trends that we're seeing in in the market place, they were in motion before the pandemic. But digital digitization and modernization has really become a high priority. Talk about why in your view now is the time to modernize and what's the mandate for enterprises? >>Well look, I think digital transformation has been a focus point for some time and I think that's going to continue as we go forward. But I think as enterprise think about the challenges they have in front of them to successfully transform digitally, they may be thinking about the problem a little bit differently in light of current circumstances. Uh and what we're seeing is enterprises have the desire to innovate, but they may not always have the resources or the capabilities to do it at the place they want to. And so how do they approach this challenge first and foremost, they need a platform that can help bridge the legacy world and the new one that they can safely evolve applications and modernize, you know, workloads that were dependent on relational databases while putting them into new platforms. At the same time, they need people to do this work. So if I'm an democrats, almost an insatiable demand to build new applications, but I don't necessarily have all the people and teams and capability and skill sets needed to support that. So as a technology company, we've got to think through how do we help provide the tools that will open up more people's ability to contribute to that digital transformation leveraging things like sequel is the fact of language in the database technology allowing enterprises to repurpose workforces free up investment dollars, free up people to really focus on the next generation of properties that are going to change their businesses. And so I think the current economic conditions haven't changed the fact that digital transformation is the top of the priority list. If anything, that reinforced the urge with which enterprises need to go after this, but also the way that they need to do it. But I can't just continue to throw niche technologies of problems. I've really got to think about what kind of platforms tonight and then in the future and a couch base as the modern database for enterprise applications. This is what we're going to spend time talking about and helping customers understand the value that we can unlock for them as they invest in the couch based platform. >>Super relevant now since we last talked matt, he made some big moves, not the least of which is you're now a public company. We've been following that. But what's changed what's new product wise and maybe one of the fundamentals of the market that that your your customers and your culture or driving. >>Yeah, well let's talk about first, what's not changed? We continue to be long term oriented couch basically believe we're in truly what we call a generational market transition and the challenges in front of enterprises unparalleled. So too are the opportunities for enterprises that get this right? They will innovate and thriving in their respective markets. And so as a company, we pride ourselves in being maniacally focused at solving unmet, underserved needs in the world of databases. And really thinking through what technological challenges do we need to innovate on store, customers can take that technology and successful. That's not, that hasn't changed that, that won't change. We continue to be insanely customer focused and really studying those problems and making sure that we're adding value in everything we do from a product perspective services, how we show up to help our customers and that's really important. Um certainly as you said, it's a big milestone for the company step in the public market. We're very proud of what we've accomplished over our first decade or so of existence. But we truly believe that we've been built for this moment and that market transition that ever have referred to um that that movement into the public markets allows us to talk more broadly about all that we've built and how customers are taking advantage of our technology case in point is probably the biggest release in company history couch based server seven oh, so while we were busy taking a step into the public market, we also continue to innovate as I said and are very pleased to be a market with couch base 70 which fundamentally bridges for enterprise customers to move from relational to modern databases and do that in a single integrated platform. And we're going to talk about that connect in more detail and how application developers can re platform applications in a much more seamless way and then start to innovate in a way, you know, that they never have. So a ton of work underway. We've got some really exciting announcements which I think we'll talk about here in the second at least plant the seeds on those. But we're going to be really focused on the innovation that we've delivered up to this point because it's so fundamentally valuable to the enterprise customers we serve and couldn't be more excited to share the benefits of that. That's actually what we're going to help customers do as we go forward. >>Well, we see a lot of companies and as as we evaluated, you've hit critical mass in terms of how we think about it successful I. P. O. Your surpassed $100 million in revenue 500 plus customers talk about the opportunity for couch based to continue to grow. What's in store. What's the focus? >>Well, as I mentioned, we're going to we're going to continue to innovate and so you know, ahead of the conference. We're going to talk about some really important upcoming innovations and I'm not gonna steal too much of the thunder from the show, people are really pumped and putting that material together? We we focus a lot on ensuring that we have the best database in the market, particularly for enterprise applications. Uh and really thinking through the architecture that will support applications today and going forward and we've been really successful with that date. As you mentioned, we have not only a lot of enterprise customers and we're really proud of those customers would support what were even more proud of though. Dave is the mission critical nature the enterprise nature of those applications. These companies are truly running their businesses on applications powered by pouches as we go forward. We have almost unlimited potential for new opportunity in acquiring new customers. Um and we're really focused on that and evangelizing what we've done successfully with our existing base to new customers and their respective markets and we continue to acquire those and you know will successfully expand because of the power of our platform. We've done a lot to invest in our partner ecosystem. So you know we have many I. S. V. S. That are taking our solutions to market. We have G. S. I. S. That are building practices around couch base because our database provides capabilities that others don't and they can run their businesses and help their end customers transform with the power of couch face. But Dave what we like to talk about a couch bases, we have opportunities to really help customers once we get in. We think about many factors of growth. So when we support a customer with an application, what often happens is that application growth because the enterprises successful and they put more users in or they deployed a new new geography at the same time, they realize, wow, if I can support highly interactive, highly scalable distributed applications in this particular area, I have hundreds, if not thousands of those in my enterprise, so I can use the platform for that. Then one of the things that we focus on is giving more and more capabilities to developers to enhance the performance and the personalization of their applications I mentioned, we support the sequel query language, we've got operational analytics, we've embedded full text search, we have things like eventing all of these are elegantly architected features that allow developers to build great applications and the more that were successful in helping developers do that, you know, the more, the more the company is going to grow. Um and then on top of all that we couldn't be more excited about about cloud and couch based cloud from the very outset has been a cloud, native platform, are enterprises are running this and multi and hybrid cloud deployments, but what we really have an opportunity to do is help them and run more of the service of, of that cloud solution and we're gonna be talking a lot more uh you know, come come the show about some specifics around that offering and could be more excited about augmenting or portfolio with some new capabilities there >>lot to learn at this event. Tons of meat on the bone. Okay. Matt, we're gonna leave it right there. Couch based, connect online. It's a two day event, october 20th to the 21st. More than 80 sessions geared for architects, developers, business users, open source advocates. Now the easiest way to register, all you gotta do is go to couch base dot com. You'll see the link there. There's a hackathon with prizes. So start developing and win. And while you're there, check out the free downloads with a number of different deployment options. Couch based, connect 2021 modernized. Now we'll see you there. >>Mhm mm.