Professional Database Consulting Services
Need help with your database? Do you want to get more out of your business
software but don't know
where to start? Are you frustrated by a lack of meaningful information from
ineffective reporting systems? ISG can help. Our experienced
database design consultants will help you evaluate
existing SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle, and MS Access database and create new
relational databases designed to manage all of your important business data. Our
database consulting team will analyze your business requirements, analyze and document use
case scenarios, and help you design and
implement a custom database solution tailored to the exact needs of your business
and our database designers will normalize your database for optimum performance.
At ISG we take database consulting seriously. We use the latest database development
technologies including Linq, Dlinq, Xlinq, SubSonic, as well as traditional tools
such as stored procedures and triggers to insure that our database applications
are fast, accurate, and reliable and our consultants are heavily experienced in
database architecture and performance tuning techniques.
About Custom Database Software Consulting
Smart business people know that management information systems are the life line of their organization. But what if these mission critical systems don't perform as needed? Problem identification and resolution is often a difficult task for busy executives. In many instances it is advantageous to have the assistance of a knowledgeable, unbiased database consulting company experienced in business software and Internet application design. Since 1993, The our database consulting team has helped numerous organizations identify and resolve complex business problems. ISG database consultants have hands on experience in a wide variety of business technologies and environments. We can help you identify and resolve problems with your existing business processes, information systems, and technology utilization, resulting in a more efficient database development process. ISG's database consulting methodology includes, but is not limited to, the following tasks:
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Define the requirements
Quality database design and database application software development is
predicated on an accurate definition of the business process requirements. Our
database consultants understand business processes and will extract and document
the details necessary to formulate a concise database design or software
requirements document. This document will become the blueprint for your project
and will also serve as a design artifact once your project is completed. It
doesn't matter if you are building a smart client desktop application, or the
latest database driven web site, a clear requirements document is the first step
in successful software development life cycle methodology for any qualified
database consulting professional.
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Develop the use cases
The project requirements document is intended to define the actual deliverables
of the project but it does not contain enough detailed information to be used as
a development guideline. To accomplish this goal, the business processes need to
be broken down into individual tasks and the requirements and attributes of these
tasks need to be defined. This is commonly done through a process called use cases.
These use case requirements are gathered through individual or group sessions and
are documented using software development tools such as UML (Unified Modeling
Language) to become part of the overall system design. User interface designs
including sample screens, etc. can also be part of this process.
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Design the database
Once the requirements are known and the use cases defined, the
database design consultant
can begin the actual process of building the database model. This process often
involves a database architect assembling all of the required data elements and
then defining database tables based upon database normalization rules. Additional
design elements include the analysis of appropriate key structures and
identification of stored procedures and triggers required for optimal database
performance and reliability.
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Build test requirements
One might think that test plan definition might come after the creation of a
development plan but in reality it should come first. Using the information
defined in the requirements, use case, and database design processes, the
database consultant can build a test plan of required activities. In addition to
the obvious final testing, these activities will include component and unit test
criteria necessary to identify dependencies required in the development plan.
- Create the development plan Now we know what the project requirements are, how the users interact with the identified requirements, what the necessary database looks like, and how the resulting product will be tested. Time to create the development plan which contains information on the technologies and development standards to be used, the components to be developed, the development steps to be executed, and the required sequence of the development events.
Web Database Consulting and Database Driven Website Development
Are you looking for an experienced web database consultant to assist with the design
and development of an important new database driven website? Maybe you need eCommerce
database consulting or web database development for your B2B or B2C
eCommerce initiatives? Our database consultants will evaluate your web database
requirements and create a professional database driven website design tailored
to your eCommerce business needs and our database development team can build
your custom database website using Microsoft SQL Server or MySQL and .NET
application development technologies. Our web database solutions also include
high performance database reporting and grid displays to allow for on screen
sorting of displayed data, built in download management, administrative control
panels, and automated database backup tools.
Contact ISG today to see how our
database programming consultants can
improve the performance and functionality of your commercial web site.
Contact ISG today to arrange for a database consulting or data warehouse consulting interview and to find out how our professional database consultants can help you build new database applications and improve the reliability and performance of your existing database applications.
