Onomi provides database consulting services to help organizations optimize their database deployments. Their consultants have expertise in Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle Database, MongoDB, and MySQL. Services include design workshops, installation and configuration, cloud migrations, database health checks, performance tuning, version upgrades, disaster recovery planning, business intelligence, and training. Consultants are available both on-site and remotely to assist with both short term projects and longer engagements.

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Database
Consulting Service
Description

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Database Consulting Service Description
Overview
Onomi Database Consulting services provide access to industry leading experts across both relational and
NoSQL database technologies. Available for either ad-hoc short term projects or longer engagements we
are ideally positioned to provide the best practice experience you need to compliment the skills of your
team.
Our core skill set provides experience in the following database technologies:
 Microsoft SQL Server
 Oracle Database
 MongoDB
 MySQL
Highlights
The Database Consulting service offers the following benefits:
Maximise your technology
investment
A robust database deployment can prove a considerable
investment. Our services ensure that you maintain best practice
advice to optimise the environment and ensure you maximise the
return on your investment over the full life time.
Experience available on demand
Our consultants are available when you need them for as little as
one day to supporting long term projects.
Multi-Platform DBA’s
Having an independent view point and accreditations across
multiple database platforms, provides our customers with the
right advice to enable to best choice of technology.
UK based Consultants
Our Database Consultants are available with SC clearance and
based in the UK.
Fixed Costs
We agree to a project outcome and provide a clear overview of
the scope of works and a fixed cost for completion.
Operational Support
Any customers who also have a Managed Service agreement will
be guaranteed the ability to extend support coverage following
any configuration or architecture changes made via the
consulting service.

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Database Consulting Service Description
Service Definition
Our Services
Onomi offers a range of database consulting services to support the full lifecycle of a deployment.
Core Technology Versions
Our range of skills covers the below core technologies, but assistance with databases such as PostgreSQL,
Couchbase and Cassandra is also available through our partner network.
Product Major Version
Microsoft SQL Server 2014, 2012, 2008 & 2005
Oracle Database 12c, 11g, 10g & 9i
MySQL 5.x
MongoDB 2.x

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Database Consulting Service Description
Design Workshops
Design workshops are critical in ensuring a best practice blueprint has been established at the outset of
any project. Choose from our popular workshop module to bring in the expertise where you need it:
 Technology Choice Module
o Review of best technology fit (RDBMS, NoSQL or Hybrid)
o Vendor selection criteria
o Recommendations Report
 Database Modeling Module
o Schema Design
o Query & Index recommendations
o Optimisation for workload (OLTP and Reporting)
o Testing Recommendations
 Database Architecture Module
o Application & Business Needs Assessment
o Infrastructure Requirements
o High Level Design
o Scaling
o High Availability
o Capacity Planning
o Disaster Recovery
Installation & Configuration
Use a Database Expert to fully implement and configure your database deployment. This service
includes:
o Database installation
o Database configuration
o Database configuration optimisation
o Security (surface attack area hardening, least privilege, authentication methods, and
encryption)
o Performance testing
o Service continuity testing
o Technical training / hand-off

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Database Consulting Service Description
Cloud Migration
Migrating existing production databases to the cloud can prove problematic. Our experts will plan and
execute one of our proven migration methodologies ensuring consistency of data and service
performance, whilst minimising downtime and risk.
o We’ll advise on optimal Cloud architecture
o Deliver pre-migration benchmark testing
o Deliver and manage the migration process
o Installation of databases in the Cloud
o Configuration of scaling
o Security hardening and database level encryption
o Configuration of multi cloud disaster recovery architecture
o Work with the Application vendor to ensure optimal configuration and ongoing
performance
Database Health Check
A point in time review of the database deployment and performance benchmark can be invaluable to
ensure your databases are optimised and have the required level of resilience for your business needs.
Typically our consultants will be with you onsite or remotely for a couple of days and we’ll then deliver a
detailed report that gives a clear plan for with recommendations and areas of improvement.
o Benchmark your databases to understand current and future system needs
o Identify bottlenecks to improve application performance
o Implement an efficient scalability plan
o Maximise your investment in the database technologies
o Ensure the systems are secure
Performance Tuning
A shortened version of the database health check focussed on environment performance, with follow on
tuning to improve the database performance.
Major Version Upgrade
If you’re looking to take advantage of the latest features by upgrading the version of your database use one
of our experienced consultants to ensure a smooth transition. We have a broad range of experience across
SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL and MongoDB.

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Database Consulting Service Description
Disaster Recovery
Ensuring that your database is operational and retains its data integrity in the event of a disaster is key to
any recovery plan. This consulting service can help you design, implement, review and provide support for
Disaster Recovery testing providing peace of mind.
Business Intelligence
Whether you’re using Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL or NoSQL databases, the reporting against your data is
vital to help make informed business decisions. Whether you need ad-hoc reports creating or a more
proactive dashboard, our Consultants are available to give you the necessary insight you need to capitalise
on your data.
o Tailored consultancy services to help develop your BI strategy
o Customised reports to satisfy all users in your business
o Creation of dashboards to deliver multi-dimensional data analysis at the click of a button
Training
Our consultants are available to deliver on-site or classroom based courses to complement a range of
available vendor accreditation track and we have experience in tailoring specific courses to address specific
skills gaps.
Bespoke Requirements
In addition to our packaged services we are happy to work on any bespoke requirements. Typically any
longer term projects are broken down into what we term “Outcome Sprints” which are no longer than 20
days, this provides our customers with a defined outcome at the end of each sprint.