Aqtra Joins MariaDB Foundation as a Gold Sponsor

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MariaDB Foundation is pleased to welcome Aqtra Platform as a new Gold Sponsor.

Aqtra is a Development Infrastructure Layer (DIL) platform for building ERP solutions, business applications, internal and external portals, and workflows that connect multiple systems. The platform provides the underlying architecture, governance, integration, and runtime capabilities required to develop and operate business applications at scale, helping organisations automate complex processes without building and maintaining every application from scratch.

As part of the next stage of its platform evolution, Aqtra has selected MariaDB Server as the strategic database foundation for its next-generation architecture. By joining MariaDB Foundation as a Gold Sponsor, Aqtra is strengthening its connection with the MariaDB ecosystem and creating a foundation for broader collaboration around MariaDB-powered business automation.

Building Business Applications on MariaDB

Businesses often depend on many different systems for finance, purchasing, inventory, sales, reporting, human resources, customer management, and internal approvals.

Connecting these systems can become expensive and difficult to maintain. Even a relatively simple business process may require data to move between several applications, with custom integrations, manual steps, and separate user interfaces.

Aqtra provides a unified platform for building applications and workflows around an organisation’s data, processes, and existing systems. These can include ERP applications, procurement and supplier portals, CRM systems, inventory management, reporting solutions, HR applications, help desks, customer portals, and other operational tools.

MariaDB Server will serve as the open source relational database foundation beneath the Aqtra platform.

For the end user, the database may remain largely invisible. They interact with the applications, portals, reports, and workflows that help them run their business. Underneath those applications, MariaDB provides the data layer required to store and manage business information, application configuration, workflow state, and operational data.

Aqtra’s decision therefore represents an important form of MariaDB adoption: MariaDB becomes part of the platform architecture and, through it, part of the applications deployed for Aqtra customers.

Rather than being adopted for a single application, MariaDB becomes part of the underlying infrastructure used to deliver entire business solution stacks. As Aqtra is deployed across customers, industries, and cloud environments, MariaDB becomes a foundational component of each resulting application ecosystem.

From Cloud Infrastructure to Business Automation

Aqtra is designed to run within infrastructure selected by the customer or its service provider.

This creates an opportunity for cloud providers, hosting companies, managed service providers, and other infrastructure partners to offer more than computing, storage, and hosting.

Through Aqtra, infrastructure providers can extend their role beyond infrastructure delivery and offer a complete business application platform built on open technologies, with MariaDB serving as the core data foundation.

A MariaDB-powered Aqtra deployment can enable providers to offer:

  • ERP and business applications hosted within the customer’s selected infrastructure
  • Internal, customer, supplier, and partner portals
  • Automation of workflows spanning multiple systems
  • Greater control over data location and deployment architecture
  • An open source database foundation for business-critical applications
  • A platform that can expand as the customer’s requirements grow

This model is particularly relevant for organisations that need greater control over their data and infrastructure, including companies operating in regulated industries, public-sector organisations, and businesses looking for alternatives to fragmented collections of SaaS products.

Expanding the MariaDB Ecosystem

The collaboration between Aqtra and MariaDB Foundation will build on Aqtra’s adoption of MariaDB Server as a core component of its Development Infrastructure Layer architecture.

The two organisations will explore opportunities to document the resulting architecture, develop practical deployment and integration materials, and present Aqtra as part of the broader ecosystem of applications and platforms built on MariaDB.

The partnership will also focus on helping cloud and infrastructure providers understand how MariaDB and Aqtra can work together as a complete data and application platform.

Potential areas of collaboration include:

  • Technical and architectural content
  • Deployment guides and reference architectures
  • MariaDB Server Ecosystem Hub visibility
  • Joint webinars, presentations, and case studies
  • Cloud and service-provider deployment models
  • Business automation and ERP-focused Solution Stacks
  • MariaDB-powered ERP and business automation reference architectures
  • Solution stacks for cloud providers and managed service providers

Through these activities, Aqtra will be able to share its MariaDB experience with users, developers, and infrastructure partners, while MariaDB Foundation gains an important new application-platform use case.

MariaDB Adoption Through Application Platforms

MariaDB adoption often happens beneath the applications users interact with every day.

A company may never make a direct database selection for every business application it uses. Instead, it chooses a platform, service, or solution whose architecture already includes MariaDB.

Application platforms such as Aqtra can therefore play an important role in growing the MariaDB ecosystem. By embedding MariaDB into a reusable application infrastructure layer, adoption can scale across many applications, customers, and deployment environments without requiring each organisation to independently standardise on a database platform.

As the platform is deployed for new customers, industries, and infrastructure environments, MariaDB becomes part of each resulting application architecture.

“Aqtra’s decision to build its next platform database layer on MariaDB demonstrates how MariaDB can serve as the dependable open source foundation beneath a broad range of business applications. Aqtra brings a distinctive combination of model-driven development, ERP functionality, portals, and cross-system workflow automation, while opening new opportunities with cloud and infrastructure providers. We are delighted to welcome Aqtra as a Gold Sponsor of MariaDB Foundation.”

Anna Widenius
CEO, MariaDB Foundation

“At Aqtra, we are building a Development Infrastructure Layer that enables organisations, cloud providers, and service partners to create and operate business applications, ERP solutions, portals, and automation services on a common foundation.

MariaDB stood out as a mature, reliable, and truly open database platform that aligns with our long-term architectural vision. By joining MariaDB Foundation as a Gold Sponsor, we are not only adopting MariaDB as a strategic technology component but also supporting the ecosystem that helps organisations build and operate business-critical applications on open infrastructure.”

Ilia Kors
CTO & Co-Founder, Aqtra

Supporting the Future of MariaDB Server

Aqtra’s Gold sponsorship directly supports MariaDB Foundation’s work to advance MariaDB Server, facilitate technical collaboration, and ensure that MariaDB remains open, accessible, and dependable for organisations around the world.

It also gives Aqtra a closer connection with the MariaDB community as the company develops its MariaDB-based architecture and expands the platform across new infrastructure environments.

We warmly welcome Aqtra to the MariaDB Foundation sponsor community and look forward to working together to We warmly welcome Aqtra to the MariaDB Foundation sponsor community and look forward to working together to strengthen MariaDB Server’s role in business application development, workflow automation, and cloud-deployable application platforms.

Learn more about Aqtra: https://aqtra.io/

Learn more about MariaDB Foundation sponsorship: https://mariadb.org/donate/