Database Design and Development

At Exceptional Software, DBMS engineering is a foundational practice and a core competency from our first corporate contract effort to the myriad of information management solutions we deploy for customers today. Our multi-discipline database engineering and development professionals have an average of over 20 years of IT experience with more than 15 years of focused database services experience. With a broad range of customers, Exceptional database professional have experience with a wide range of DBMS solution architectures and component compositions from obsolete or residual legacy solutions to the newest emergent database offerings affecting changes in accordance with the governance mechanisms of commercial, government, and multi-agency bodies. Our DBMS professionals are experienced in all phases of the DBMS process to include:

• Needs Characterization
• Requirement Acquisition, Analysis & Verification
• Design
  • Conceptual
  • Logical
  • Physical
• Implementation
• Testing
• Customer Transitioning & Lifecycle Support

Exceptional understands that there is more to the implementation of an optimal database design than the conventional engineering and development cycle. Our experience with customer has shown the need for a wider range of services to facilitate successful adoption of a new DBMS implementation which we support with services that include:

• Procurement Support: Poor acquisition alignment can jeopardize the deployment schedule of your DBMS increasing operations impact and deployment cost. Exceptional understands these challenges and will work with you to purchase the best hardware and software components consistent with your deployment objectives.
• Hardware Architecture Support: With the vast array of options, selecting the optimal hardware for a DBMS can be challenging. We understand the tradeoffs between using the various equipment offerings and can ensure you get database-friendly hardware which suits both your current and future information needs.
• Organization and Operations Analysis: Our professionals will work with organization stakeholders to map your process and recommend refinements that will promote business model efficiencies consistent with your DBMS usage.
• Enhanced Database Security: As some COTS solutions may not provide the level of assurance needed to meet customer requirements, Exceptional can assist in mapping a security strategy and advancing HW/SW solutions to meet more stringent security needs.
• COOP Data Continuity Strategies: From simple off-line backup of databases to high robust multi-site replication and fail-over, we understand your data is vital; for this reason, we engineer robust data replication mechanisms to ensure your data continuity and maintain its consistency between redundant resources whether local or geographically distant.
• Tool Integration: We integrate a variety of third-party database management tools.

Due the diversity of customer engagements and our history in providing DBMS solutions, Exceptional DBMS engineering professionals have worked with a wide range of DBMS offerings. The following table is provided as a representative sampling of technologies used to deliver customer DBMS solutions and provide a sense of our scope of engagements.

What We Do

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