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Data services, from the database to the dashboard

Database management, data engineering, real-time pipelines and BI analytics, handled by one team so your numbers hold up from source to report.

Four services, one path for your data

Each covers a step on the way from database to dashboard. Most clients start with the step that hurts most and add the others as the work shows where the gaps are.

  1. 01

    Database Management

    Design, tuning, backups, monitoring and DBA support.

    • Database design and setup
    • Performance tuning and query optimisation
    • Backups, recovery tests and monitoring
    • Ongoing or fully outsourced DBA support

    The work can involve: PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle, MongoDB.

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  2. 02

    Data Engineering

    Pipelines that bring every source into one place.

    • Pipelines from each source system into one store
    • Cleaning, joining and scheduling data loads
    • Data warehouse and lakehouse design
    • Alerts when a load fails or arrives late

    The work can involve: Airflow, Spark, dbt, Snowflake, Databricks.

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  3. 03

    Real-time Data Pipelines

    Streaming data for live dashboards and alerts.

    • Event streams from applications and devices
    • Live dashboards and alerts
    • Change data capture from operational databases
    • Schema changes that do not break downstream reports

    The work can involve: Kafka, Flink, Spark Streaming, Debezium.

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  4. 04

    BI Analytics

    Dashboards and KPIs your leadership can trust.

    • Agreeing KPI definitions with your leadership
    • Dashboards and scheduled reports
    • One data model behind every report
    • Training for the people who use them

    The work can involve: Power BI, Tableau, Looker, Excel.

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Store, move, decide

Data is kept in databases, moved into one place in batches or as it happens, and turned into reports. One team owns every step, so a figure on a dashboard can be traced back to its table.

  1. 01

    Store

    Where your data is kept, on premises or in the cloud.

    Database Management (core service)Design, tuning, backups, monitoring and DBA support.
  2. 02

    Move

    How data from every source reaches one place.

    Data Engineering (core service)Pipelines that bring every source into one place.
  3. 03

    Decide

    How the numbers reach the people who act on them.

    BI Analytics (core service)Dashboards and KPIs your leadership can trust.

What the work includes

  • One set of definitions, from the database table to the figure on the dashboard.
  • Backups, access rules and monitoring set up as part of the build, not after it.
  • Documentation and a handover, so your own team can run what we build.

The rest of the stack

The same team covers the other two groups, so work that crosses them stays with one set of engineers.

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Talk to us about your data

Tell us where your data lives today and what you need from it. An engineer from our team will get back to you to set up a call.