DATABASE SERVICES

What are Databases and Why are Database Services Important?

Databases are an absolutely vital resource for any IT infrastructure. Whether you have large data centres or use smaller, on premise or cloud-based infrastructure, almost every action you take will be recorded or supported by databases. By appropriately managing all of this data, you can make better business decisions, securely store and find data when you need it, run all of your regular business functions and systems and provide your organisation with a whole host of safety and security backups to ensure business continuity. 

Data access, data security and database management are key requirements for most businesses, which are all practices that the team at Savant can help your organisation with. Without databases, there are a huge number of regular business functions that simply cannot be carried out, things that organisations often take for granted. 

Even as technology has evolved to become more advanced and more diverse, there are still so many basic functions that rely on databases, and this is something that cannot be changed. High-quality databases guarantee continuous, reliable access to key data and ensure the safety, efficiency and security of your entire computing infrastructure.

1. Healthcare: In public and private sector health applications, database services are used not just to store, analyse and understand data better, but also to run the vast majority of practical systems. Data analysis, communication between health trusts, holding individual and public health records and tracking of MPHOs (medical products of human origin) are just some of the key applications of databases in modern health care settings.
2. Banking and Finance: Banking and finance operations are almost entirely carried out digitally, and there are a huge number of stakeholders invested in every single movement or transaction in this industry, so having databases that support the needs of traders, banks and fintech organisations is of the highest priority. Databases can also be used to identify and prevent illegal trading and fraudulent activity.
3. Communications and Media: The media and communications sector rely heavily on data to tailor their offerings to user preferences, and to provide the most effective, most up-to-date and most tailored experience to their users, which is something the public is growing to demand and expect more and more as technology advances.
4. Manufacturing: Manufacturing companies use a range of analytical tools which run on databases, to ensure that are allocating the resources of production in the most effective and efficient way.
5. Transportation: Data and database management can help to improve the efficiency of the transportation sector, reduce the number of incidents or losses and can help to cut costs for these organisations.

How Database Services Can Help Your Organisation

Support services for databases can reduce the workload on your internal teams, while also ensuring experts in this field are responsible for maintaining, administering, and maintaining the database infrastructure. In addition to database support, professionals can also help implement and oversee policies and procedures for ensuring the integrity and availability of databases and their associated software. 

Daily tasks of a database support team can range massively, depending on the tools used by your organisation and the needs of your users. However, common day-to-day database management and support services can include:

• The management of databases in multiple phases of product development, from development to mission-critical production environments, using a range of popular database technologies including Mimer SQL, SQL Server, Oracle, and MySQL to name but a few.
• Configuring and maintaining databases and monitoring system health and performance to ensure optimum performance, availability, and security.
• Regular system monitoring to ensure uptime and the reliability of organisational databases.
• Design of scripts for task automation and development of scripts for task automation.
• Managing clustering, mirroring, backups, and failover of the databases, along with advising on, creating, and carrying out database restoration and disaster recovery plans. 

A thorough understanding of business information technology operations, applications, management software, and queries relating to users is required for tasks and services such as these, along with a deep understanding of processes, programming language, and application architecture. administration tools, servers and virtualisation, and a range of other expert knowledge and skills. At Savant, our technical team have an exceptionally wide range of specialities and decades of combined experience, allowing us to offer exceptional service and effectively contribute to your database infrastructure and strategies.

Contact us today to learn more about our products and services and see how we can help you.