What DO YOU OFFER?
IT Service Management automation software (free to download and use, forever!) and JIRA and ServiceNow Oracle integration consulting services. The free software resides on a small Linux VM you will have to provision, between your ticketing system (ServiceNow, JIRA, etc.) and your assets in need f maintenance, whether hardware or software.
What ARE THE BENEFITS?
This slideshow explains the benefits.
How Does the Software Work?
The technical aspects are described here. But the best part of hyper-automation is that you dont need to train your employees on technology use, because it replaces the employees. Nothing changes from a manager's perspective, except for two aspects:
1) From here on out, you start assigning the JIRA and ServiceNow Change Requests, tasks, Incidents and Projects to the automation virtual user, instead of your administrators. You keep assigning the automation user more and more tasks and incidents, until all or at least most of your resolutions, installations, provisioning, and maintenance tasks are automated and run by themselves.
2) You do this in the same familiar ServiceNow ticketing or JIRA project management systems. But be careful. The automation user work hard. They never eat, sleep, or vacation. They don't understand the concept of "good enough". Everything they do will result in the best possible outcome. It will not just be some DBAs' best. It will consistently be the industry's best, thanks to the Best Practices embedded in our automation modules.
How Do I Install the Software?
1) Download the software.
2) Upload or import our JIRA or ServiceNow code to your respective servers. The code import is simple for JIRA. For ServiceNow the import is more complex, it requires a script run inside the ServiceNow system.
3) Upload our automation code (Ansible YML playbooks) to your automation control node (usually a LINUX server with very modest requirements, at least 4-8 CPUs, around 68GB of RAM, a TB of disk space will suffice, can be a shared server).
4) Enter your runtime parameters into the variables file /etc/ansible/vars/main.yml - ServiceNow or JIRA server URLs, admin credentials, pipe in your server inventory, usernames and passwords and the automation will take over. Alter the automation inventory /etc/ansible/hosts by entering your database end points and server infomation.
5) Register the shell scripts with your LINUX cron schedule.
You dont need to be an automation expert. As a matter of fact you dont have to even know anything about automation or Oracle or another database to make this work. Our download page on GitHub has a README file with detailed instructions. We are here to provide help.
What are the Enterprise Features that are Unique in Your Automation Software?
Imagine you had to perform an Oracle database upgrade. Not a patch — a real version upgrade, the kind every DBA team dreads. You're moving a production database from Oracle 21c to 26ai, and there's no room for a mistake: get it wrong, and you're looking at hours of downtime, corrupted application connections, or a rollback scramble at 2 AM. Here's what actually happens when Replayable runs it — and why each part of that process is a genuine safeguard, not busywork.
Vendor best practices. Oracle's own guidance says never upgrade production directly — clone the environment first, upgrade the clone, validate it, then touch production. Replayable's upgrade workflow does exactly that: it runs Oracle's AutoUpgrade tool through its analyze phase before ever touching a live database, surfacing version-incompatibility issues and blocking conditions in advance. If the analysis fails, nothing has been risked yet — no downtime, no half-finished upgrade, just a clean stop before the point of no return.
ITIL alignment. Every upgrade change is classified honestly, not rubber-stamped: risk and impact are both marked High (because a version upgrade genuinely is), the affected database is linked as a real Configuration Item, and a planned maintenance window is recorded before a single command runs. If your compliance team ever needs to show an auditor exactly what was changed, when, and how much risk was assumed going in, it's already documented — not reconstructed after the fact.
Risk mitigation. The upgrade doesn't just run and hope. It checks four separate times that things are actually in the state they need to be — before starting, after the analysis phase, after the deploy phase, and after the final restart — and it never proceeds past a checkpoint that fails. And if something does go wrong, the failure-handling logic is smart enough to tell the difference between "this upgrade genuinely failed" and "this is leftover recovery data from an earlier interrupted attempt" — a distinction that, done wrong, has cost real DBA teams hours of chasing the wrong problem. The bottom line is this. Risk mitigation means if there is even a remote chance of something going wrong, a task will not be executed with at lest two failsafes in place (an export, a backup, a restore point, for example).
Cost containment. Out-of-place upgrades need real infrastructure — cloning a full Oracle home can mean an extra 300GB of storage that nobody budgeted for. Instead of quietly provisioning it and surprising someone in next month's cloud bill, Replayable estimates the cost up front and holds the upgrade until a budget owner explicitly approves it. No surprise charges. No "who authorized this storage" conversation after the fact.
The orchestration core — dependency gate-checking, sequencing, rollback discipline
The live-inventory-driven intake pattern — real-time-synced dropdowns reflecting actual infrastructure state, not a stale CMDB — this is exactly what we just spent this whole session building for Oracle, and it's a pattern, not an Oracle feature
The defensive-scripting discipline — self-diagnosing fallbacks, honest failure reporting, pre-flight checks before expensive operations
We dont just automate Oracle. We make it run in the best possible way. the valuable, defensible part of this platform was never the Oracle-specific execution logic — sqlplus, impdp, ALTER SESSION SET CONTAINER. Those are commodity mechanics any DBA could script in an afternoon. The actual asset is the surrounding scaffolding, and it's already technology-agnostic in practice:
Our pitch to an enterprise isn't "we automate your Oracle databases." It's "we've built the governance-closure layer once, and Oracle was the first of many technologies we plugged into it" — the same ServiceNow/Jira shepherd pattern, the same orchestration gates, the same live-inventory dropdowns, now sitting in front of network changes, storage provisioning, or container deployments. The moat isn't database expertise. It's having already solved the much harder, much less glamorous problem of closing the approval-to-execution loop in a way that survives contact with a real CAB process — and that problem is identical regardless of what's being changed underneath it.
How is Your Software Different from Autonomous Databases?
Autonomous isnt equal to automated. While some current autonomous database software requires less or no maintenance, that "simplification" applies only to one installed instance. True, for a small mom'n'pop shop that plays a significant role. After all, the owners no longer need to maintain their small "Orders" or "Customers" database or be aware of its existence in the Cloud. But in an enterprise with 100,000+ employees, such user-friendliness is of little consequence. To an enterprise, an administrator is the same as a cell to an organism (cells are essential, a cell isn't). On contrary, those autonomous database offerings increase the Total Cost of Ownership because of the upgrade, migration and training costs. There are thousands of disparate database systems, hundreds of incompatible technologies from countless vendors, and warring departments, each locked in its own technological and procedural silo. The enterprise is more interested in ensuring that all its diverse personnel, hardware, and software are efficient and flexible to change. That is usually measured by change velocity, governance, and stability. Unfortunately, none of these crucial factors are improved by the current automation offerings. Let's consider an example. Suppose a database administrator completed a given task 10 minutes earlier because of some autonomous feature or an open-loop automated shortcut. Will the admin's manager notice? The answer is a resounding "no". The manager has already been delaying all due dates by a week because his administrators are always busy and need a week to get to them. So, as long as the task is completed within the week, the manager would not notice the 10-minute improvement. But if the same tasks didn't even need to be assigned or opened, the manager will notice. If the work was magically done by itself, 24x7, always under budget and ahead of schedule - that, again, the manager will notice (so will the manager's manager). This is where open-loop automation falls short and closed-loop hyper-automation delivers.
The second factor is organizational: protecting the company from this stubborn technology. Let's keep exploiting the same configuration change script. Let's say the buffer week the manager has given the administrator has passed. Before an employee runs the script, they must attend hours of CAB, JIRA, Agile, Kanban approval meetings. This is another week wasted, on top of the first buffer week. What is worse, it is the same configuration change that is being discussed/approved and executed each time, just a different iteration. This makes as much sense as disassembling your car in your garage after work just to reassemble it again in the morning to drive back to work.
It is an enormous waste of time and effort that could have been used more productively. There is currently no technological solution to this problem of extreme organizational inefficiency (the bigger the company, the worse). We need a method that enables all the disparate departments, teams, technologies, and processes to work in tandem to implement a long-term business strategy. The current Cloud autonomous database offerings don't even begin to scratch the surface of usability there, as they're all open-loop. Asking them to reduce the database software TCO is the same as asking a Burger King restaurant to rid you of your diabetes. They are not set up for that. Selling you a diet salad is the best they can do.
Why do you believe these roles are disappearing?
Because the constraint that used to protect them is gone. System, database, and network administration resisted automation for decades for one simple reason: the hardware was physical. You couldn't script a server rack. That's no longer true — servers, routers, and databases are now JSON, fully addressable by software. Lamplighters, telegraph operators, and NASA's human computers disappeared the same way: not because their work stopped mattering, but because a new process could do it faster, cheaper, and without fatigue. The knowledge didn't vanish, it got codified. That's what's happening to skilled IT labor now, and it's the whole reason Replayable exists. Read our manifesto →
Do you help with migrating off Oracle to AWS, not just ongoing operations?
Yes — migration is one of our most active priorities. It is the highest-risk, highest-stakes project a database team ever takes on, and it deserves the same governed automation already proven throughout this platform. Read about our approach to Oracle-to-AWS migration →