TL;DR: SharePlex 12.3 introduces SharePlex AI Insights, a free add-on that delivers AI-driven optimization, diagnostics, and expert guidance for your replication environment, no specialist required. The release also expands platform support to PostgreSQL 18, Oracle 26ai, and SQL Server 2025, and adds mTLS and FIPS 140-3 security compliance.
Here is a question worth sitting with: how much of your replication environment is actually running at its best?
Not “is it running?” Most teams can answer that. But are your streams fully optimized? Is latency as low as it could be? Are there bottlenecks you have not yet caught that are quietly widening the gap between your source and target databases? Are your high-availability configurations set up to deliver the optimum RTO and RPO your business actually needs?
For most organizations, the honest answer is: probably not. And the reason is probably a lack of time. Replication optimization usually requires deep product expertise, time spent on analysis, and a certain amount of institutional knowledge that tends to reside in one or two people. When those people are stretched thin or not available, streams could run below their potential, and no one is the wiser until something breaks.
And the stakes extend well beyond operational efficiency. As Devin Pratt, Research Director, Data Management at IDC, puts it: “For agentic AI to function as intended, it requires data that is current, not hours or days old. That puts database replication directly in the critical path of AI readiness. Organizations that invest in optimizing their replication streams today are effectively investing in the reliability of their AI workloads tomorrow.”
That is exactly what SharePlex AI Insights is designed to change.
Introducing SharePlex AI Insights: AI-driven replication optimization
Today, we are introducing SharePlex AI Insights, a free SharePlex add-on certified for any 12.x release. It is a new web interface that enables every member of your team to view the status of current replication streams and then analyze and get optimization recommendations for their SharePlex replication streams, on demand. No command line. No specialist required. Just actionable intelligence, when you need it. DBAs already loved the ease of use of SharePlex, and now others, or more junior team members, have an alternative way of optimizing their business-critical replication streams
The goal is not simply faster troubleshooting, though SharePlex AI Insights delivers that too. The goal is to continuously improve the optimization of replication streams and everything that flows from them.
Why optimized replication streams matter to the business
Replication is infrastructure. It is easy to treat it as a background concern, a plumbing layer that just needs to keep running. But the performance of your replication streams has a direct effect on the outcomes your business cares about:
Fresher data for analytics and AI
Every second of unnecessary latency is a second your models and dashboards are working with outdated information. Optimized streams mean your analytics reflect now, not five minutes ago.
Lower RTO and RPO
High-availability configurations depend on replication keeping pace. A stream running below its potential widens your recovery window. Tighter optimization directly shrinks RTO and RPO.
Reduced migration risk
During an Oracle-to-PostgreSQL migration or a version upgrade, replication latency could directly translate into cutover risk. Optimized streams protect your timeline and your fallback window.
Fewer conflicts and inconsistencies
Bottlenecks that go undetected create an accumulating lag. Catching and resolving them early keeps source and target in tight sync, reducing the risk of data inconsistencies downstream.
Better business decisions
When the data powering your AI pipelines and decision support systems is consistently fresh and complete, the quality of the decisions made from it improves across the board.
A more resilient team
Optimization expertise no longer lives in one person. With AI-guided analysis available to everyone, your team’s collective capacity to maintain healthy replication grows significantly.
These are the outcomes that SharePlex AI Insights is built to deliver. Here is how.
“For agentic AI to function as intended, it requires data that is current, not hours or days old. That puts database replication directly in the critical path of AI readiness. Organizations that invest in optimizing their replication streams today are effectively investing in the reliability of their AI workloads tomorrow.”
– Devin Pratt, Research Director, Data Management, IDC
At-a-glance replication overview: Visibility is the foundation of optimization
You cannot optimize what you cannot see. The Replication Overview dashboard gives you an on-demand view of all your replication streams, process statuses, latency readings, and configuration details from a single, intuitive web interface.
For teams managing multiple streams across complex environments, this is the starting point. A unified view means patterns become visible: which streams consistently show elevated latency, which configurations are running lean, and where attention is needed before a problem develops. Optimization starts with awareness, and the replication overview puts that awareness within reach of every member of your team.
AI Performance Analyzer: Continuous optimization, not just reactive fixes
This is the core of SharePlex AI Insights. The AI Performance Analyzer collects all required traces alongside key system-level metrics, then surfaces performance bottlenecks and delivers actionable recommendations: what is causing the issue, how to resolve it, and how to prevent it from recurring.
The recommendations are grounded in a knowledge base built from 25 years of SharePlex support cases, knowledge base articles, product documentation, and tuning data. That is the equivalent of pulling in one of Quest’s most experienced SharePlex engineers, on demand, every time you need it.
- Surface bottlenecks before they widen. You do not have to wait for a stream to fall critically behind. Regular analysis catches degradation early, keeping latency tight and streams running at their best.
- Act on recommendations, not guesswork. Instead of hours spent correlating log files, you get a clear diagnosis and a clear next step. Junior team members get the same quality of output as your most experienced DBA.
- Prevent, not just fix. Because the output includes guidance on preventing recurrence, every resolved issue makes your environment a little more resilient than before.
Try it yourself. Here is an interactive demo of SharePlex AI Insights in action:
AI Diagnostic Analyzer: No more scrolling through log files
When a replication stream goes out of sync, or a process runs into trouble, the traditional path to diagnosis has always been the same: open the log files, scroll through thousands of lines, find the entry that explains what went wrong, and figure out how to fix it. For anyone who has done this under time pressure, the experience needs no further description.
The AI Diagnostic Analyzer eliminates that process. It automatically surfaces out-of-sync issues and process problems, identifying what is wrong and where, without requiring anyone to manually comb through logs. The result is faster detection, faster resolution, and less exposure time between when an issue develops and when your team acts on it.
- Catch issues before they compound. Out-of-sync conditions and undetected process failures widen over time. Detection keeps the gap from growing.
- Less time on diagnostics, more time on fixes. When the system tells you what is wrong instead of making you find it, your team spends its time on resolution, not investigation.
- Consistent detection across the team. You no longer depend on whoever has the most log-reading experience being available when a problem occurs.
SharePlex Assistant: Expert guidance for every question, in plain language
Optimization is not just about the big interventions. It is also about the day-to-day questions: what does this warning mean, why is this process behaving differently than expected, what parameters should I look at for this type of configuration? Historically, those questions either went unanswered or got escalated.
The SharePlex Assistant lets anyone on your team ask questions about their SharePlex environment in plain language and get instant, context-aware guidance. It is the equivalent of having a SharePlex expert on call at all times, ready to help every member of your team make better decisions about how their environment is configured and tuned.
- Faster answers mean faster action. Teams that can get reliable guidance immediately make better, more consistent optimization decisions.
- Lower learning curve. Junior team members can become effective contributors to replication health more quickly, without first needing years of experience.
- Less escalation. Your senior engineers focus on complex optimization work rather than fielding routine questions.
“It’s like having an expert SharePlex consultant at your fingertips!”
Also new in SharePlex 12.3
SharePlex AI Insights is the headline of this release, but 12.3 also brings meaningful additions to platform coverage and security.
Expanded platform support
- PostgreSQL 18 as source and target
- Oracle 26ai as source and target (Linux)
- SQL Server 2025 as target for Oracle, PostgreSQL, and PGDBaaS sources
- Google Cloud Platform IaaS for Oracle-to-GCP replication
- Oracle Exadata on Google Cloud as source and target.
Security enhancements
- mTLS authentication for encrypted and mutually authenticated connections between Oracle and PostgreSQL systems.
- FIPS 140-3 compliance on Linux, with cryptographic operations performed using validated modules to meet the latest CMVP guidelines.
Data type and replication enhancements
- Extended data types for Oracle-to-PostgreSQL replication, including VARCHAR2, NVARCHAR2, and RAW up to 32,767 bytes.
- UUID support for PostgreSQL-to-PostgreSQL replication.
- Large data types in custom conflict resolution for PostgreSQL-to-PostgreSQL, including CHAR, TEXT, JSON, JSONB, and BYTEA.
The bigger picture: From reactive to optimized
SharePlex has been the enterprise-grade foundation for mission-critical database replication for over 25 years. In that time, expectations of what replication must deliver have grown considerably. It is no longer enough for data to eventually reach its destination. It needs to arrive fast, consistently, and with the reliability that modern AI pipelines, analytics platforms, and high-availability architectures depend on.
SharePlex AI Insights marks a shift in how organizations can manage that demand. AI-driven optimization means your replication environment is not just running: it is running at its best. That difference shows up in fresher data, tighter SLAs, better-protected migration projects, and a team that is equipped to keep it that way.
Get started
SharePlex 12.3 is available now. Here is how to explore what is new:
- Try the interactive demo to see SharePlex AI Insights in action. <<<insert link later>>>
- Contact our team for a personalized proof of value through a guided trial or POC.
- Existing customers can download the latest version and access the full release notes and documentation on the Support Portal.
