In today’s business world, Relational Database Management Systems (RDMS) are the foundation of most Retail Management Systems, Computerized Maintenance Management Software (CMMS), Management Information Systems (MIS), Corporate Web Sites or Inventory Systems. Whether you are simply managing a small list of customers in your Point Of Sale (POS) system, a comprehensive Customer Relations Management (CMS) system for your real estate business, a database of one form or another is the “engine” behind your system. In many cases the information stored in your database system may be your most valuable corporate asset and so the collection, security, reliability and accurate reporting of your information is crucial to the success of your business. We can assist you at the earliest stages of your database architecture development all the way to the management and reporting stages. Open Enterprise Solutions offers database development, management and reporting services in the following areas.

Multiple Platform Support

With the increased competition from open-source database vendors such as MySQL and PostgreSQL, the big corporate database vendors such as Oracle and Microsoft, have both began reducing if not making available for free, some of their enterprise database products. When combined with the powerful and popular open-source RDMS from MySQL and PostgreSQL, businesses of all sizes can now utilize powerful database systems in their corporate environment without incurring the huge expense, which was typical only a few years ago. Open Enterprise Solutions has SQL development experience on ost RDMS's including Oracle on Windows and Linux platforms, SQL-Server (Windows Only), MySQL (Windows and Linux) and PostgreSQL (Linux) systems.

SQL, PL/SQL & T-SQL Development

From core SQL development, database triggers, stored procedures and SQL tuning, Open Enterprise Solutions can provide services for most of your database development requirements.

Database Management

Core management services inculde database architecture and design, installations, enhancements, patches, monitoring, database rebuilding, backup/recovery, RAC (Real Application Clusters), replication, capacity planning, troubleshooting.

Database Installations and Upgrades

We frequently assist our clients with database installations, upgrades, and migrations on Linux and Windows based database systems. With the larger database systems, we also know that installing Oracle software involves more than just a "point and click" approach. Upgrades and migrations have to be planned for carefully. We take a methodical and conservative approach to ensure we take our clients through this process smoothly. The know-how to provide testing, planning, and validating are critical in getting through these processes smoothly.

Backup and Recovery Strategies

If you are like most of our clients, your data is critical to your business, and you can't risk data loss or downtime. We can develop your backup and recovery strategy and look at meeting high availability requirements and capacity planning. We work with huge production databases on a regular basis. We also do backup and recovery audits and testing to ensure your risk of any data loss is as low as possible.

Replication and High Availability

The technology in this area is varied, and we use our experience to ensure your business needs are met. We work with you to understand your high availability requirements, and we'll develop and test a solution that best meets your needs.

Performance Tuning and Troubleshooting

Improving response time, eliminating bottlenecks, increasing scalability, reducing hardware and software costs, working with developers to improve the performance of SQL and PL/SQL. When you have a performance issue or a database problem that is impacting your users, it is never more important to have experience on your side. That's where our many years of experience have succeeded in problem-solving and bringing our clients through a tough database issue.

Database Reporting & Distrbution

Accessing, summarizing and reporting on the data stored in your corporate database systems is where you leverage the majority of the value contained in your information store. For the most part, the data stored in your database system is simply raw data with little business or corporate value until it is meaningful organized, cleaned and summarized according to your business goals and expectations. Once your data is summarized, and accurately reported to you in a clear and understandable fashion, what was previously raw data now becomes “knowledge”. With our extensive statistical and research background combined with database reporting experience, Open Enterprise Solutions can assist you with most of your reporting, On Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) or statistical and analytical requirements. Our reporting platform of choice is the popular Crystal Reports environment and Crystal Enterprise platform for report storage, execution and distribution. We also work with Oracle Reports and can explore some of the open-source database reporting tools, which have recently become available.

Database Backed Web Design & Dynamic Content Creation

One of the most popular uses of Linux and other open-source software is in the deployment of web sites and web site hosting services. The acronym LAMP, which stands for “Linux”, “Apache”, “MySQL” and “Perl/PHP/Python”, is at the heart of an ever increasing number of web sites. The ability to deploy an entire web server, database system, powerful scripting and development languages, all on open-source platforms, has provided many small businesses with database-backed corporate or retail web sites, which were prohibitively expensive in the past. One of the greatest changes in the web design industry is the popularity of “Content Management Systems” (CMS), which are database-backed, open-source web platforms that use templates, and web based interfaces for management of all aspects of the web site. You no longer need to pay for expensive programming from a third party to add or modify content on your web site. If you can use Microsoft Word, then you can manage, design, update and control all aspects of your database-backed web site in-house with your own staff. Even the Open Enterprise Solutions web site is developed on a CMS system known as Joomla .

For retail E-Commerce web sites we support, the osCommerce open-source, database-backed platform. OsCommerce “features a rich set of out-of-the-box online shopping cart functionality that allows store owners to setup, run, and maintain their online stores with minimum effort and with no costs, license fees, or limitations involved”.

Open Enterprise Solutions offers consulting, development, management and integration services for all aspects of database-backed web design and E-Commerce solutions. Our preference, and greatest strengths are in the setup, management, deployment and training in the use of LAMP based CMS sites and E-Commerce solutions.

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