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Looking for database developers in hertfordshire? Black Squirrel Computers have many years experience in creating, maintaining and converting many different database systems.

From data cleaning to import projects and conversion between different formats, we can help you develop, upgrade and maintain your database systems in a cost-effective manner.

 

Intranet based solutions

If you are thinking about developing or upgrading your internal database systems, you should consider implementing an Intranet based solution. An intranet is a local web server hosting your own internal web site within your existing network using exactly the same technologies as the www.
By creating your internal systems using web-based technologies up-front, you will be building in web accessibility for the future. At a suitable point, this would provide extremely low-cost expansion, and a central data-source accessible from anywhere in the world for your customers, remote sales and home workers.
Open-source web technologies like PHP and MySql make bespoke database systems viable to even the smallest business.
You can avoid costly upgrade and license fees for networked database software by using web browsers already installed on your PCs and web server programs that are free and easy to install.

 

Open database connectivity (ODBC) Integration

If you are using different packages to manage your business, you may well be able to integrate them using ODBC.
You can often increase back office efficiency dramatically by tracking key transactions in core systems and updating other packages from these or by synchronising data sets across different databases.

A common example of this is preventing duplicate-entry e.g. where customer details are entered into a sales contact package to record customer information and the order processing system to create a new account, more often than not with different details that don't tie together. ODBC could be used to automatically create new customer records that are as identical as possible and are linked together through an intermediate database. Once records are linked, numerous integration scenarios become possible.

Once you have ODBC connections into your business systems, you can often greatly reduce reporting overhead and complexity by pulling summary data from your live systems into an intermediate reporting database. This database can then be queried directly or used as a company-wide central data source for month end reporting. Often these reporting tasks can be fully automated, increasing accuracy and office efficiency.
If you suffer from over-loaded spreadsheet-based reports or month end results that differ from department to department then it could be time to re-group your business data using a centralised database.
 

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