Services
SERVICES THAT MAKE BUSINESS SENSE
We think long and hard when trying to tell you who we are and what we do. It's easy to talk about all the things we enjoy doing with SQL Server and other databases. Loving what we do has always been the easy part. Sometimes the challenge is establishing a balance of what we can do to really help with work you and your team con manage directly yourselves.
That's where defined services play a part. We offer several levels of Monitoring and Maintenance and we treat each Project engagement separately and seriously. It takes a lot of time and energy for everyone involved so we want to make sure we get our part right each and every time. That's also why we listen to what you tell us about your pain points and your path forward. We are very happy offering advice when you ask and we'll share tips and tricks and cool new ideas when we find them. Our success is measured by yours.
Power BI Health Check information
Performance charts and metrics. Power BI provides a wide range of visualizations to help you see what's happening on your database server.
We're geeks. We LOVE writing code. It's our version of fun when we can solve a problem, tell a compelling story, find a new pattern in data that helps you see what your business is doing.
Power BI Health Check information
Services You Need At Sensible Rates
Initial Health Check
This is our Initial Consultation Service. It is free. As in you won't be charged. When you schedule a consultation we send you a file with instructions on what to do. It's pretty easy but if you or your staff have any questions we make sure you have answers. If you feel you need our help we'll work with you to set up a connection and run the tool for you. You send the results to use (and keep a copy for yourself) so we can look at what's going on. You can run the tool for as many instances of SQL Server as you want.
After we've received and reviewed the results we set up an online meeting to discuss the findings and any steps that should be taken to help with the problem you asked about. You decide how much help you want us to provide at every step of the process.
Migrations/Upgrades
When you have questions about migrations and upgrades we want to work with you to make sure you get the most return for your investment. We can work with your team or handle the job for you.
Thinking about cloud databases? We are too! We use Microsoft Azure for many of our business applications and work with Amazon Web Services (AWS) using MySQL and PostgreSQL. We partner with a team of network and hardware specialists to make sure the best person for the task is handling jobs at which they are skilled.
When Microsoft releases a new version of SQL Server or a cumulative update we test on our own estate before recommending clients move forward.
Monitoring/Maintenance
This is one of our Signature Services. We offer subscription based services to provide you with the level of support you need. If you have staff who just need occasional help or advice we can make that happen. Generally we find that businesses want help making sure things are working as planned and have at least a little warning if things start to go off the rails.
That's where these services are useful. We can set up monitoring and provide periodic reports - weekly is a pretty common choice - so you get notice as things change. We will provide a custom package that gives your team what they need. Health monitoring, backup and restore automation, replication or log shipping, high-availability, version updates, etc., to meet your database stability and security goals.
Projects/Products
There will be times when you need more than a query tuned, waits and blocking issues identified and corrected. We also provide development services from database design and changes to data warehouse design and development.
We have an entire practice delivering Business Intelligence services including ETL/ELT data importing, data type transformation, addition of calculated columns and data cleansing. We help make sure your data is ready for analysis platforms and tools to provide you with consistent and reliable reporting and analytics.
Whether you need KPI and performance metric based dashboards, financial reports and projections, or automated equipment operations reporting, we can help