Data is a critical part of your business. Whether it is sales, marketing campaigns, production forecasts or accounts, your data gives direction and measure to your business goals, as well as the ability to formulate strategies for business success. SenariFX’s database development solutions enable you to protect your data, yet make it highly accessible and useable for business intelligence. We can centralize your data into a relational database design for optimal performance, or we can devise a secure data warehousing option to run alongside your current information architecture. Either way, our database development solutions are 100% geared to helping you get the most out of your data using best practices, and safeguarding it for your business’s future.
Centralizing your data in a relational database design has many advantages:
- A central database is a single point of reference and results in only one version of the truth
- Your data is secured so that access is only given to those who need it
- High availability and disaster recovery for your data can easily be built in to a central relational database. It’ll help make your data super secure and always available for when you need it
A poorly designed database will cost you time and money. It’ll also undermine strategic decisions that are based on your data. Often it is not until you’ve spent several months or years using a data solution that the impact of a poor database design becomes apparent. Commonly, the problems manifest themselves as data inconsistencies, missing data, or slow database performance.
How the Database Development Process works with SenariFX
At SenariFX we have more than 10 years experience in database development. We’ve designed numerous relational databases and optimized them for performance and security. Our design process is rooted in dimensional data modelling and in the normalization of operational databases. At the start of a database development project we work closely with you to understand your business model. Once we are familiar with all of your data’s critical paths we put some serious thought into how best to design a system that maintains data integrity, consistency and performance so that these do not become issues as your company grows. At every stage of development we make sure that your data is secure, complete and accurate.
Sometimes it is not possible or feasible to change the design of an existing data solution, or to make changes in an application that uses your database. In these cases we look at other database development solutions, including:
- Designing a data warehousing solution to store data from different sources, and to reconcile those different sources with each other. Data warehousing allows you to replicate your data in a central location, while maintaining data integrity in your other systems.
- Correct data inconsistencies and/or address performance issues by developing database stored procedures, views and functions.
- Create triggers to alert you as to when inconsistent data has entered the database.
- Develop reports to reconcile data between different databases.
- Use Enterprise SQL Server to improve performance through data compression, indexed views and table partioning.
