Proposed on a fixed-cost or time-and-materials basis, Ascent Technology offers its Database Administration Co/Outsourcing clients a way to supplement on-site resources with highly skilled, certified professionals.

Ascent Database and BI professionals are available either on a:

Project Basis: resources are provided to meet the specific requirements of a project for periods from three to twenty-four months; or

Period Basis: resources are provided for a period of time (minimum six months) and fall under the direct management of the Client.

Ascent Technology’s strong pool of highly skilled Database and BI Consultants allows the company to engage in Expert Database and BI Consulting while ensuring that its Database Co/Outsourcing clients have excellent service. The company is often brought in under emergency conditions to solve time critical issues or to resolve challenges that have proved beyond a clients’ in-house capabilities or resources.

Ascent Technology is able to bring to bear a cross-section of expert skills and experience to ensure a speedy resolution.

Database Consulting Services are supplied to carry out:

• Database High Availability
  • Database Clustering
  • Database Replication
  • Database Mirroring
  • Disaster Recovery

• Database Performance Tuning
  • Database I/O Tuning
  • Database Management System Tuning
  • Database Backend SQL Tuning

• Database Security
  • Database Vulnerability Assessments
  • Database Compliance
  • Database Abstraction
  • Database activity monitoring

• Database Consulting
  • Database and Database Server Consolidation
  • Database Virtualization
  • Data and Database Migration
  • Data Architecting and Modeling
  • Data-Model Reverse-Engineering
  • Backend SQL Development

BI Consulting Services are supplied to carry out:

• Integration Services
  • Construct and Manage Integration Packages
  • Data Integration and Transformation between heterogeneous environments

• Reporting Services
  • Create, Deploy and Manage Reports
  • Publish and Export Reports
  • Schedule Report Processing and Access Reports on-demand

• BI Consulting
  • Dashboards and Balanced Scorecards
  • Data Warehousing
  • Data Mining
  • Data Quality and Profiling
  • Master Data Management

These Consulting Services are delivered on a time and materials, or on a fixed fee basis.

One of the major costs associated with IT Solutions is software licensing and the managing thereof. Furthermore, while software licensing is a significant asset, it can be problematic for many clients.

Ascent Technology is focused on ensuring that its clients obtain the most cost effective database software licensing metric possible in relation to the client’s needs. Due to Ascent’s close relationship with database vendors, Ascent has a comprehensive knowledge of database software licensing.

As Ascent Technology has a services annuity revenue based business model, it does not depend on software licensing sales or fees to make its income. This means that Ascent has no conflict of interests in respect of software licensing procurement at its clients. This fact ensures that the Ascent’s clients get 100% objective and conflict free advice when it comes to database software licensing metric assessments and recommendations.

Facing platform ‘end of life’ issues together with increasing pressures to digitise processes, increase profitability and innovate on product and service, organisations are finding Data Platform Modernisation projects can deliver significant value by enabling IT cost reductions together with improved service levels and increased agility.

An effective platform modernisation project factors in a combination of architecture refresh, together with software upgrades and targeted application remediation to deliver a platform that offers the optimum combination of TCO, performance and business innovation.

• Database Upgrade and Database Server Consolidation
  Provides clients with the ability to leverage newer technologies to reduce license footprints whilst improving robustness and efficiency of the database environment. The consolidated environment results in reduced hardware, operational and licensing costs.

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• Database High Availability
  Provides clients with the ability to have a robust, maximum uptime database environment. This is achieved by the implementation of a number of methodologies and technologies. These include clustering, mirroring, replication and disaster recovery.

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• Database Virtualization
  Provides clients with the ability to build a responsive datacenter by creating a virtualized database infrastructure with the performance and reliability to run business critical applications and services. Deliver high availability, allocate resources dynamically, and automate management of applications and hardware.