Quest Embraces Community Inspiration from the Toad Idea Pond
April 24 2012 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
Quest Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: QSFT) - The release today of Toad®
for Oracle 11.5 includes several enhancements that surfaced from
the Toad Idea Pond, one of the newest and most interactive methods
Quest utilizes in collecting user input. The Toad Idea Pond enables
users to present their ideas for enhancing Toad directly to the
Toad development team. As ideas are submitted, the Toad user
community discusses and votes on them, and the best are included in
the next release.
Innovations around Toad, the industry’s leading tool for
database professionals, have incorporated community feedback for
more than a decade – a development model that Quest, in fact,
credits as one of the key contributors to the product’s popularity
and success.
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News Facts:
- Sixty ideas from Idea Pond have been
implemented into the past two major Toad for Oracle releases. The
top four in Toad for Oracle 11.5 are:
- Enhanced Query Builder: the
updated graphical interface looks and feels like a real modeling
tool, making it simpler to build complex queries, and more
intuitive than ever before
- Workspace Management: already a
very customizable interface, Toad now enables users to save
multiple interface layouts, or workspaces, that are customized for
various tasks or specific projects
- Added Flexibility and Control in
Toad Editor Tabs: users can now seamlessly multi-task between
multiple source files and database objects they are editing
- Code Completion Enhancements:
provides greater efficiency and helps reduce errors while
developing source code
- Version 11.5 also features enhanced
Code Analysis, which automates code-quality and incorporates
additional rules and customizations, all helping to reduce the risk
of coding errors. With Toad’s one-click synchronization engine,
DBAs can quickly and accurately compare and synchronize data used
for development, testing and analysis.
Quest gives the power of the community back to users,
too:
- Toad for Oracle 11.5 integrates with
its online communities for easy, direct access to millions of
users, Quest developers, and database experts for a collaborative,
social sharing experience and learning opportunity.
- Toad World: an online resource
for education, expertise and collaboration, averaging more than
280,000 unique visitors per month, where database professionals –
Toad users or not – can access a wealth of free resources on
development and administration best practices, connect with
renowned experts through the blog community, and learn more about
each product in the Toad portfolio. The new release of Toad for
Oracle has enhanced integration with Toad World, offering direct
search capabilities into the community that enrich users’ learning
experience and encourage collaboration. Users can access the Toad
Idea Ponds for Oracle, SQL Server and DB2 through Toad World.
- Project Lucy: an online
analytical resource for DBAs that offers unique insight on system
and data performance. Users can upload, analyze, and compare their
performance metrics with the community, to help DBAs determine what
is (and isn’t) the norm based on experiences of their peers working
in similar environments. Toad connects directly to this “collective
intelligence” feature, delivering global statistics in real-time,
and continuous, ongoing analysis and reporting on existing
data.
Customer loyalty and the Toad success story go
hand-in-hand:
- After nearly 15 years of success, Toad
for Oracle today is considered the industry de-facto standard
productivity tool for Oracle database professionals. Of the 2
million-plus people using Toad solutions, more than 50 percent use
Toad for Oracle, the original flagship product in the Toad
portfolio.
- Quest has been ranked No. 1 in Database
Development and Optimization for three consecutive years by
IDC1.
Supporting Quotes:
- Darin Bartik, vice president and
general manager, Database Management, Quest Software “Part of
being an innovator means listening to your customers, and not just
your largest or loudest customers. The Toad Idea Pond gives every
one of our users a voice and helps us ensure the most impactful
ideas get implemented. All vendors talk about customer input, but
we thrive on it. Our unique, community-driven model for product
development is good for our customers, and good for Quest, too.
“
- Rich Stucke, database administrator,
Meridian Enterprises “I’ve used Toad for more than 12 years
and, before Idea Pond, I was a beta tester. The life of a DBA is
busy. We don’t always have time to participate in betas or submit
formal feature requests. Having an open forum where I can jump in
and quickly toss out an idea makes it easy to share my suggestions
and see what other users are suggesting, too. I hope to see more
Quest products adopt this concept, in fact. When users have a say
in how the tool they use for their jobs each day evolves, it’s no
longer just a tool that works for them – it becomes their
tool.”
- Carl Olofson, research vice
president, IDC “At its inception, Toad was created by and for
the Oracle developer community. It appears that Quest hasn’t
changed that unique characteristic of the product over the years,
and wisely so. To this day, the community that assembled around the
product when it was first created continues to have a distinct
presence, amassed in every corner of the world. That sense of
community and appreciation for learning from others among IT
developers is not going away anytime soon. In fact, looking ahead
to the newest generation of developers joining the workforce, it’s
highly plausible that they’ll be expecting their tools to be more
personalized, more collaborative, and more social-media
friendly.”
Supporting Resources:
- Quest Software, Inc.:
http://www.quest.com/
- Toad for Oracle:
http://www.quest.com/toad-for-oracle/
- Toad Idea Pond:
http://toadfororacle.ideascale.com/
- Toad World: www.toadworld.com
- Project Lucy:
https://www.projectlucy.com/
- More Quest news:
http://www.quest.com/newsroom/
- Twitter:
http://mobile.twitter.com/quest
- Facebook:
http://www.quest.com/facebook
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/
- Quest TV: http://www.quest.com/tv/
About Quest:
Established in 1987, Quest Software (Nasdaq: QSFT) provides
simple and innovative IT management solutions that enable more than
100,000 global customers to save time and money across physical and
virtual environments. Quest products solve complex IT challenges
ranging from database management, data protection, identity and
access management, monitoring, user workspace management to Windows
management.
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1 IDC, Worldwide Database Development and Management Tools 2010
Vendor and Segment Analysis, Doc # 232122, December 2011.
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