Advanced Network Management develops custom applications or provides numerous types of interfaces to existing data stores and off-the-shelf software data applications. We are experienced in delivering complex, data driven web applications over the Internet as well as over private WAN and LAN networks (See Security).
ANM is experienced in the implementation of private, single user or “departmental” databases and enterprise high performance databases with multiple applications.
The Requirements Driven Agenda
As in all ANM projects and support efforts, your requirements, business processes and rules will determine the final data architecture. There are numerous common requirements that must be considered during the requirements gathering phase. These may include:
Database
- Current Supporting Paper Based Forms and Reports
- Database size
- Concurrent Users
- Latency
- Legacy Data Sources
- Data Cleansing
- Data Movement
- Data Transformation
- Reporting Requirements
- Security
- Graphical Interfaces
- Non-Graphical Interfaces
- Data Distribution
- On Line Transaction Processing (OLTP)
- On Line Analysis Processing (OLAP)
Interfaces and Applications
- User Training
- Support for Users
- Rule based logic
- Graphical Preferences
- Performance
- Hierarchy & Permission
- Process Automation
- Platform
- Development & Authoring Environments
Based upon the desired scale of computing, each data environment must be design for cost effective ways to utilize data assets for the maximum competitive advantage. ANM also considers the cost of owning and supporting the application and data environments as a part of the requirements phase of the project and risk mitigation process.
Data as Asset
ANM's work on application projects assumes that data can be a valuable asset to any business that creates a sustainable, supportable database infrastructure. Often small databases are created in different departments that duplicate efforts and data. ANM's enterprise approach strives to consolidate islands of data, remove duplicated data and give the highest degree of flexibility necessary for management reporting.
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