DATABASE, BI AND AZURE, CONSULTING SERVICES
Ascent Technology offers end-to-end, cost effective, Managed Database, BI and Azure, Consulting and Support Services. These services are structured to allow clients the flexibility to choose the engagement model which suits their needs.
Ascent Technology fosters a heterogeneous database technology strategy. Our specialised database skills enable us to service and support complex mixed technology environments – including Microsoft Azure SQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle Database, MySQL, MariaDB, MongoDB, Azure Cosmos DB, PostgreSQL, EnterpriseDB and Amazon RDS.

This service is implemented on a remote and on-site basis, with active management and preventative maintenance, ensuring a reliable, robust and optimally performing database environment.
This service, which protects clients from potential disasters and unnecessary downtime, can be extended to monitor application specific tasks or database batch jobs.
Ascent’s Database Administration and Support Service consists of three components, namely:
- Proactive Management
- Reactive Management
- Management Reporting
Ascent Technology’s business model makes use of economies of scale to deliver excellent service while ensuring affordability.
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Ascent Technology’s business model makes use of economies of scale to deliver excellent service while ensuring affordability.

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.

Ascent Technology is able to bring to bear a cross-section of expert skills and experience to ensure a speedy resolution.
These Consulting Services are delivered on a time and materials, or on a fixed fee basis.

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.
- 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.
- Hybrid Database Solutions
Provides clients with the flexibility to run database workloads, business critical applications and services in their own Private Cloud, the Public Cloud or a combination of Private and Public Cloud. Delivering high availability, allocate resources dynamically, and automate management of applications and infrastructure.
- Database License Optimisation
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.