02 — Service
Data & Database Consulting
Database and data work as a consulting capability in its own right — not only as part of a larger development project.
What this covers
Architecture and modelling
Designing schemas that hold up as requirements change, and restructuring the ones that have not.
Performance and troubleshooting
Finding out whether a slow system is queries, indexing, the model or the way the application uses it — before anyone buys hardware.
Migration, integration and pipelines
Moving data between systems, consolidating overlapping sources, and building the pipelines and reporting layers that keep them in step.
A lot of what gets described as a reporting problem, a performance problem or an integration problem turns out to be the same underlying data model question. Answering it properly is usually cheaper than working around it.
We take on focused assignments as well as full projects. Sometimes the most useful engagement is a few days of analysis before a decision.
A short, well-scoped analysis is often the highest-value thing we can do — and sometimes the conclusion is that the rebuild is not needed.
Focused assignments
Establishing where the time actually goes, before anyone commits to a rebuild.
Where the schema has accumulated exceptions and every new requirement makes it worse.
Bringing overlapping systems into one coherent picture, and deciding what becomes the source of truth.
An independent read of what is there, what it costs to keep, and what a migration would actually involve.