Bespoke Databases

Whether you’re a blue-chip company that needs a full-featured enterprise database to serve multinational locations and enable multiple users to access and update the data simultaneously, or a local retail business who has expanded and found that spreadsheets and Access databases are now limiting your effectiveness; we can help.

Here are just some of the databases that we can create for you:

All of the databases we create enable you to carry out real-time reporting and data analysis simply and quickly – so your people can get on with their jobs instead of having to spend hours trying to extract meaningful information.

Don’t worry, that’s what we’re here for. We’ll work with you to understand your business requirements – broadly, who’ll be using the database, what tasks they’ll be performing, how often data will need to be modified, what hardware is available, levels of access and scalability requirements – before making our recommendation.

And if you know what database you’d like, we’ll gently question and challenge your business assumptions to make absolutely sure you’re getting the right one for your needs – now and in the future.

DCSL is a Microsoft Partner, so our technology of choice is Microsoft SQL Server, including extensive use of the core Database Engine, Integration, Analysis and Reporting services. For big-data scenarios we also use NoSQL database engines such as Cosmos DB from Microsoft. Additionally we can build Microsoft Azure systems with an Azure Database, a great choice if your preference is public cloud.

SQL Server is recognised as the de facto in modern industry and allows for secure, stable, scalable and fast storage and retrieval of data for any scenario. We can also work with MySQL and Oracle, if preferred.

At the front end, we use primarily browser based technology such as HTML5, served by ASP.NET MVC and C# programming. We also create WPF desktop and mobile applications.

Microsoft SQL server – our technology of choice – has been voted the most secure database five years in a row1.

The security of your database – the confidentiality, integrity and availability of your company’s most sensitive data – is paramount to us. We ensure data is held on mission critical systems which conform to multiple security standards and are locked down from the outside world.

The Government, NHS and healthcare, education, financial services and insurance industries – all of whom require the highest degree of security possible – have trusted us with their data.

Many of the systems we create are re-writes of an existing, legacy system. This usually means data in the old system needs to be “migrated” or moved to the new system. In some cases, the data needs to be synchronised between the old and new systems to ensure a side-by-side system roll-out can occur. In all cases, we have the experience and expertise to manage complex data migration scenarios.