DATABASE DESIGN & CONSULTANCY

 

Cognitum can offer bespoke development providing maximum flexibility and rapid response in order to meet your  needs. We have worked on a number of prestigious projects and will be pleased to provide industry references to potential clients.

 

Business have to ask two key questions when it comes to implementing a new database system or upgrading an existing system:

 

	Does the system functionality meet my business needs or will my business processes have to change to fit the system?
	Does the supplier have my business needs at heart or are they just interested in getting their system implemented via the course of least resistance?

 

You also face three potential internal showstoppers:

 

	Your IT team can handle the implementation/upgrade on the technical side but they don't have an umbrella view of the business requirements
	Your marketing/sales/commercial/finance teams know what they want out of the system but can't get beyond their own 'silo' view
	You can't spare the senior management resource to manage the entire project so lack of continuity and integration is inevitable

 

Cognitum can help you solve these issues by providing all or any of the following project elements :

 

• Business requirements review       }

• User requirements review               }

• Functional requirements review        }     or validation of existing documentation

• System requirements review           }

• Technical specification                  }

• ‘Fit for purpose’ assessment

• Project management of supplier selection
• Represent the clients interests where dealing with new suppliers
• File structure assessment

• Data mapping

• Data migration from legacy systems

• Moving from one database to another inevitably means re-formatting data to meet new field sizes. Cognitum can rebuild data to your individual specification, re-build child dependency tables and give your data back in the format you require.

• Ongoing database development

• Database design

  • SQL

  • Oracle

  • Access

   

• Implementation

• Training

• User acceptance testing (UAT)

If you have a database consultancy requirement then contact us for an initial discussion.