What are database development services?
If your business is ready to move on from Excel or growing rapidly, you’ll probably be looking for a database development agency soon. But what are database development services and why should you outsource these tasks externally? Today, we’ll look at common jobs database developers do and why hiring an agency like ours will allow you to focus better on your core business functions.
Database scoping
The first step for a lot of clients is looking at what you have and making a plan for what you need. Our process always kicks off with full scoping. As your external partners, we’ll seek to learn and understand more about your business. We want to come to grips with the challenges that you are facing and understand the processes you want to improve. From there, we can select the right solutions and propose architecture to meet your needs.
Database development
The next core database development service we provide is actually making the repository itself. We’ll begin with an initial design to get your thoughts and then spin that up into a fully functioning prototype. Across the whole project, you’ll have a dedicated project manager feeding you regular updates based on work completed & milestones achieved.
Data migration
What if you’ve hired someone else and they’ve left the job half done or you need support for your internal team to transition to a new platform? IBM explains that “whether you’re moving to a public cloud, private cloud, hybrid cloud, or multi-cloud environment, you’ll need to find a secure, cost-effective, and efficient method of migrating your data to its new storage location.” And hiring an external database agency is a great way to tick that box.
Database security
An often overlooked beneficial task is database security. Eleks explains, “In the UK, 88% of businesses have experienced some data or network breach in the past year. To counteract these problems, database developers can install and configure new security measures and update existing ones so that they are effective in dealing with the latest threats.” So, it’s really not a matter of if, but of when. If you don’t have a team internally to keep everything patched and scanned for threats, you really should look at getting external support.
Database maintenance
Lastly, making sure your data is clean, accurate and accessible is a top priority for your sales team and customers – but it’s unlikely you have a data engineer in your team already. That’s where database development services come in. You can hire a team like ours to carry out regular checks of your data integrity, do fine-tuning, fix issues, update statistics, back up data, remove unnecessary files and patch your software so everything is always up to date.
If you’re not doing the essentials like maintaining a clean and secure database, you should get in touch. Talk to us today about your data structure and we’ll share how we can support you to get everything up to date. And if you want to scope improvements for the future, our team would be delighted to help you there as well.
