Data solutions
The group offers high-end solutions designed to efficiently store and manage all your valuable data. We have been successfully delivering database services to public and private sector clients for more than 15 years.
Data-centric offerings
Our data solutions are designed to make the data-handling process smooth and efficient.
Understanding our solutions
- Data management solutions: Clean and organise your data
- Data warehouse solutions: Store and manage huge amounts of data
- Database design: Bottom-up design process
- Database reporting: Dynamic web reports via SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS)
Data management solutions
Behind every fully-functioning database is a high quality data set. We use tried and tested approaches to quickly clean and organise high volumes of data.
The ‘dirty data’ issue
Database content is populated in two ways:
- Direct human input via screen based data entry
- Importing of data files from other sources
Both these methods of collection are filled with variables and possibility for error. This introduces dirty and disorganised data.
The solution
To address these inconsistencies and clean up messy data, we work to:
- Identify and remove unwanted control characters
- Match and de-duplicating name and address data
- Recognising and fix mixed format date fields
Our portfolio
We have created data management solutions for a range of prestigious clients, including:
Data warehouse solutions
Drawing upon our extensive experience we create a bespoke data warehouse solutions based on your requirements.
Structuring your data
Operational databases are not organised in a way that makes reporting or analysis across the database simple or efficient. Our data warehouse solutions are structured to make the reporting process easy rather than for data collection and storage itself.
The data in a warehouse is broken down into fact and dimension tables so it’s easy to run reports. These tables divide data into categories such as average daily sales and then by region, location and salesperson.
To do this we use a range of thought-out approaches including:
- Business Intelligence (BI) Design - BI technologies provide historical, current and predictive views of business operations. We work to understand the details and the key messages that you want to present to the business audience and then design a system that displays and transmits the data for maximum impact
- Advanced Extraction, Transformation, and Loading (ETL) techniques - A well-known data integration process. The data is extracted from operational or external data sources, transformed into the appropriate format before being loaded into a data warehouse repository
Hosting and maintenance
These data warehouse solutions can be combined with hosting and maintenance packages. Contact the team to discuss your options.
Database design
We design, host and maintain some of the largest SQL Server databases in the UK. Choosing Data Solutions Group will ensure you get the most out of your data and improve existing business practices.
Scalable solutions
We can provide scalable solutions that are tailored to your requirements, from small databases through to very large databases and data warehouses. Our dedicated customer care commitment will also ensure that you receive continual support and guidance.
The specialist development team will design a database solution to meet the specific needs of your organisation. Whether you need a marketing database or want de-duplicated view of several disparate data feeds, we can design and host it.
Database reporting
Find out what’s really in your data. Our powerful database reporting solutions offer you direct access to key statistics.
We can create a suite of reports to enable you to view key and bespoke metrics that are relevant and useful to your business.
Benefits
- Deliver dynamic web reports to your web browser using SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS)
- Multiple report formats including Excel and PDF