Evolve offers a range of Data Management services, from one-off emergency consultancy through health checks to the ongoing maintenance and support of your full corporate database environment.

No matter what applications you run, or how many, all information eventually ends up in one or more databases. The Intellectual Property of an organisation is largely contained in its databases, some of which are absolutely critical to the business while others provide support for secondary business functions. Business critical reporting on which important decisions are made is sourced from the information stored in your corporate databases. So the loss of, unavailability or damage to one of your businesses key business assets, your corporate database(s), has the potential to be very costly and significantly impact ongoing business operations.

Common database problems we have observed include:

• Poor, inadequate or untested backup procedures and Disaster Recovery Plans
• Poor application and data access performance
• Excessive management costs arising from database environment configuration (or conversely the potential for cost reduction via server consolidation)
• Poor or inadequate Reporting & Analysis tools: business users cannot make full use of the information stored in the many and varied corporate databases
• No single view of the truth, strategic decisions taken based on reports which sourced their data from different, or worse, incorrect database(s)

Healthy database management will contribute to: risk mitigation; cost reduction; improved efficiency; improved business continuity planning; better business decisions; improved organisational responsiveness; and ultimately, increased profitability.

Database & Data Management are specialist disciplines, requiring a combination of skills and the intelligent application of technologies to ensure information is secured and made available to your people in a timely and user-friendly manner.