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In today’s world, database and application infrastructure are critical components of enterprise IT. Against this backdrop, enterprises face continuing challenges in managing increasingly complex and growing data portfolios while meeting business expectations for peak performance and accessibility.

 

ALTERNA’s team of professionals has deep technical and process expertise that allows them to help improve your current database management operations and bring down your total cost of ownership (TCO). Our highly-talented pool of DBA’s have architected, configured, and managed complex ERP integrations, rollouts, database migrations, and upgrades for some of the largest companies in the world.

 

Our services support a wide range of technologies including database administration, Business Intelligence (BI) and Data analysis as follows:

Database administration

ALTERNA’s process-based approach simplifies database maintenance and eliminates recurring issues. Our experience and documented practices enable consistent and automated database operations. As a result, we spend less time troubleshooting and more time focusing on initiatives that provide positive business impact. Our framework enables faster database operational maturity and stability.

Assessment and Evaluation Services

  • Database Capacity Optimization
  • Database Operations Standardization
  • High Availability Solutions
  • License Rationalization
  • Database Vulnerability Assessment
  • DBA Tools Evaluation
  • Database Upgrade and Global Rollout Assessment
  • Healthy Backup environment

Build and Implementation Services

  • Implement database high availability solutions
  • Upgrade: patch set and version
  • Migration: Cross platform / database
  • Database Performance standardization
  • Disaster recovery solution
  • Enterprise Manager Cloud Control implementation
  • Golden Gate Replication

Run and Maintenance Services

  • Database Monitoring
  • Incident Management
  • DB Performance Tuning
  • Backup / Recovery Management
  • Database and Application Patching
  • Database and Application Cloning
  • Database Security management
  • Database Space Management
  • Database Security Audits
  • Key performance indicators
  • Event correlation
  • Database Health Index
  • Database Reliability Scorecard

Remote Monitoring services

  • Database Incident monitoring and basic change management with customizable coverage hours
  • Managed Services – Fully managed database services
  • Build and Design Services – Design, build and architecture services for project needs

Data Analysis

Our Services involve the identification of the data elements which are needed to support the data processing system of the organization, the placing of these elements into logical groups and the definition of the relationships between the resulting groups.

 

ALTERNA uses the REDCap software which is a collaborative, international network of more than 2400 institutional partners in over 115 countries, with more than 590,000 total end-users employing the software for more than 450,000 ongoing research studies.

Data Services

  • Analyze data
  • Data Manipulation
  • Data Cleaning
  • Data Merging

Build and Implementation Services

  • Setup Linux Server with LAMP
  • Implement REDCap
  • Upgrade REDCap
  • Integrate Hooks to the RedCap

Run and Maintenance Services

  • Server Monitoring
  • Backup / Recovery Management
  • Administrate RedCap
  • Implement Required Hooks for RedCap
  • Troubleshoot RedCap Issues Dashboards
  • Implement Automated Analysis

To meet the varying needs of each organization, ALTERNA optimizes implementations by offering these services:

 

  • Data Analysis using R, which also includes automated scripts using R for eligible projects, we can use R to execute a full data analysis, provided structured data and clear requirements.

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  • Research / Medical Data Collection and Surveying using REDCap, thus giving the support and extra features to compliment it.

Business Intelligence (BI)

Business Intelligence (BI) is the transformation of raw data into meaningful and useful information for management information reporting purposes. BI can handle enormous amounts of data to help identify, develop, and create new business opportunities to enable competitive market advantage and long-term stability. BI allows for the easy interpretation of large volumes of data.

 

Technologies used to deliver BI can provide historical, current views of information to deliver management information reporting.

 

  • BI Roadmap and Business analysis.

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  • Technological architecture.

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  • Operations layer design and development.

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  • Presentation layer design and development.

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  • ETL processes layer design and development.

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  • Implementation, administration and operations support of BI products.