About ASPICON
Founded in 2002, ASPICON is a specialist Oracle consultancy and managed services provider headquartered in Chemnitz, Germany. The company employs 10 DBAs, 6 of them Oracle specialists. ASPICON support customers across manufacturing, healthcare, logistics, financial services, the public sector and other industries. With deep expertise spanning Oracle database administration, infrastructure, cloud, licensing, high availability and disaster recovery, ASPICON helps customers design, implement and operate secure, high-performance Oracle environments.
Since becoming one of Dbvisit's first partners in Germany in 2008, ASPICON has grown one of the country's largest Dbvisit practices, supporting more than 100 active customer deployments. Over the past 17 years, the relationship has evolved well beyond a traditional software vendor and reseller model into a genuine strategic partnership. Built on agile processes, regular knowledge exchange and a proven way of working, Dbvisit has become an extension of the ASPICON team, enabling the company to focus on delivering value to its customers while knowing it has a trusted partner behind the scenes.
"What has made the biggest difference over the years isn't just the technology. It's the way Dbvisit works with us as a partner. The team is responsive, easy to work with and genuinely invested in our success. That collaborative approach allows us to focus on helping our customers while knowing we have a trusted partner supporting us behind the scenes." Dirk Melzer, Co-Founder & Managing Director, ASPICON
The partnership is collaborative in both directions. As a long-standing strategic partner, ASPICON not only delivers StandbyMP as part of its Oracle managed services offering but also provides ongoing product feedback based on real-world customer deployments. This continuous knowledge exchange helps validate new capabilities, influence future product development and ensure StandbyMP continues to address the operational challenges faced by Oracle DBAs and managed service providers.
Rather than treating Oracle Enterprise Edition as the default choice, ASPICON works closely with customers to determine whether Oracle Standard Edition can meet their business and technical requirements. In many cases, customers can avoid unnecessary Enterprise Edition licensing while maintaining the performance, reliability and operational capabilities their business requires.
One of the biggest barriers to adopting Oracle Standard Edition has traditionally been disaster recovery. Oracle Data Guard is only available with Enterprise Edition, leading many organisations to assume they must purchase Enterprise Edition simply to achieve production-ready resilience.
By incorporating Dbvisit StandbyMP into its managed services offering, ASPICON has removed that barrier. The company can confidently recommend Oracle Standard Edition whenever it is the right technical fit, while delivering enterprise-grade disaster recovery through a professionally managed, standardised platform that scales efficiently across more than 100 customer environments.
"Enterprise Edition shouldn't be the default decision. Our role is to help customers choose the Oracle platform that's right for their workload. Dbvisit StandbyMP gives us the confidence to recommend Oracle Standard Edition whenever it's the right fit, knowing we can still deliver the resilience and business continuity our customers expect." Dirk Melzer, Co-Founder & Managing Director, ASPICON
For many organisations, Oracle Standard Edition provides everything they need. One of the biggest challenges, however, is the lack of the native Disaster Recover, such as Oracle DataGuard, available only on Enterprise Edition. By partnering with Dbvisit, ASPICON removed that barrier, enabling their customers to realise the cost benefits of Oracle Standard Edition with a robust, enterprise-grade disaster recovery strategy.
"Oracle Standard Edition is often underestimated. In many ways it's Oracle for experts because you don't have the additional tooling available in Enterprise Edition. With the right architecture and the right disaster recovery platform, Standard Edition can support many production workloads extremely well." Thilo Solbrig, Senior Oracle DBA, ASPICON GmbH.
ASPICON's approach starts with understanding workloads rather than licence editions. If advanced Enterprise Edition features are not required, the company recommends Oracle Standard Edition and designs an architecture around it. Disaster recovery then becomes an important supporting capability, ensuring customers can reduce Oracle licensing costs without increasing operational risk. This allows them to clearly differentiate themselves from their competition.
"Helping customers reduce Oracle licensing costs is only part of the story. The real value is being able to deliver a complete, professionally managed Oracle platform that combines operational simplicity, proven disaster recovery and long-term reliability. That's exactly what our partnership with Dbvisit allows us to do. "Dirk Melzer, Co-Founder & Managing Director, ASPICON
ASPICON operates, monitors and maintains the platform as part of its managed service, on behalf of their customers.
The ability for an MSP to manage solutions at scale is critical. StandbyMP provides ASPICON with a standardised, professionally supported platform that can be deployed consistently, and effectively managed across more than one hundred customer environments.
Alternative approaches exist.
1. Some organisations rely solely on backups, but RTO is poor.
2. High Availability technologies improve uptime but are not a substitute for disaster recovery.
3. MSPs can build out custom scripts, but these create complexity and require a lot of time and skill to upkeep.
For a Managed Service Provider, supporting hundreds of Oracle environments, these approaches quickly become difficult to standardise and scale. Backup-only strategies generally increase recovery times, while custom scripts require continual maintenance, testing and troubleshooting. Over time, each environment evolves differently, creating operational inconsistency and increasing support effort.
"When you're managing disaster recovery across dozens of Oracle environments, consistency matters. StandbyMP gives us a professional platform that behaves predictably every time, instead of relying on custom scripts that become harder to maintain as environments evolve." Thilo Solbrig, Senior Oracle DBA, ASPICON GmbH
Maintaining a standby database involves far more than applying archive logs. Switchovers, new datafiles, operational edge cases and ongoing lifecycle management all need to be handled reliably. StandbyMP replaces bespoke tooling with a documented, purpose-built product that delivers predictable behaviour across every deployment.
For ASPICON's engineers, this means standard operating procedures, integrated monitoring, automated standby management, streamlined switchovers and clear visibility into replication health. The result is a platform that scales operationally, allowing the team to manage many customer environments efficiently while delivering consistent service quality.
For ASPICON, selecting a disaster recovery platform isn't just about features. As a managed services provider responsible for protecting business-critical Oracle environments, the team also needs confidence that expert assistance is available whenever it's required.
While StandbyMP is designed to operate reliably with minimal day-to-day intervention, knowing that experienced Oracle specialists are available to provide guidance, troubleshoot issues and deliver timely software updates gives ASPICON additional confidence when supporting customers.
As Senior Oracle DBA Thilo Solbrig explains:
"The support from the Dbvisit team has always been excellent. When we've needed assistance, we've been able to work directly with engineers who understand Oracle and respond quickly. That's incredibly valuable when you're supporting business-critical customer systems."