Consulting Services
From implementations to upgrades, development to performance tuning, Ingres Consulting Services provide you with the in-depth expertise, proven project management skills and industry experience needed to gain maximum value from your Ingres solutions and deliver an optimized and reliable production environment.
Services you can trust
When you need advice about Ingres solutions or assistance with deploying them, who better to ask than the people who know Ingres best?
Our consultants have years of experience gained from supporting our customers. We can help with every aspect of Ingres, including maintenance and optimization of your existing system, upgrades or migrations and the development of new applications. We can also be as involved as you need us to be by supplying advice, hands-on assistance to your staff or managing complete projects. With Ingres Consulting Services you lower the risks associated with outsourcing work because you are using the people who know Ingres best.
Project Consulting
When new projects are initiated, there are many reasons why you might want to outsource some or all of the work. You may need specific expertise that is not available in-house. You may not have enough resources available and need to augment those you have. In some cases, all your resources may be tied up in other projects. In all these cases Ingres consultants can help.
Ingres consultants will work with you to scope and price the work involved so you know exactly how much the project will cost before it starts. Once agreed, a project team is established, who have the required technical, business and project management experience and expertise. The team then works to successfully deliver the project and, just as importantly, ensure knowledge is transferred to your staff.
Ingres Consulting Services can help you with a wide range of projects, including:
- Investigating the feasibility and cost effectiveness of migrating existing database systems to Ingres, upgrading existing Ingres implementations and replacing or upgrading legacy applications
- Implementation assistance, such as configuration of your Ingres installation, hardware and operating system, and the migration of existing data and applications to Ingres
- Advice and assistance with the design, development and deployment of an Ingres solution, including the choice of application development tools and advice on the system architecture
Performance Consulting
When your Ingres database is supporting business critical applications, it is imperative that it is consistently operating at peak performance levels. Consequently, regular performance reviews are essential. With their in-depth understanding of the product, based on hundreds of client engagements, Ingres consultants will help by:
- Assessing your entire Ingres environment to identify performance bottlenecks and any stability, security or backup and recovery issues
- Assessing maintenance and housekeeping processes to ensure they maximize stability and performance, today and in the future
- Investigating known performance issues, identifying the cause of poor application response times and tuning your system for maximum performance
- Advising and assisting you with upgrades from prior releases of databases and applications to the latest Ingres Open Source releases
Backed by expertise
All these services are backed by the in-depth expertise of our consultants, who have many years' specialist experience of Ingres products. They also have a broad range of IT skills, having held positions such as:
- Ingres Server Specialists
- OpenROAD and Front End Specialists
- Operating System Specialists
- Senior DBAs/Data Recovery Specialists
- Business Analysts/Designers/Project Managers
- Senior Programmers
In addition, our consultants are in constant touch with Ingres Engineering and Development. As a result, they have early insights into the latest product plans and can draw on that knowledge, plus the expertise of those groups, to provide you with the very best advice, guidance and assistance.
