SolidQ’s SQL Server Health Check service reveals the causes of problems—not just the symptoms—enabling you to shift from reactive troubleshooting to proactive maintenance.

 

Our solution offerings range from EDW architectural strategy efforts and EDW solution design and implementation projects to EDW team augmentation and mentoring (partnering with your company to build a successful data warehouse solution).

 

 

 

SolidQ PTO Service Offerings quickly identify the root cause of current or future application performance issues. We review opportunities for immediate performance improvements and implement them when appropriate.

 

PTO Mentoring and Assistance – Determining and solving PTO issues supported by expert knowledge transfers.
 
Relational Database – Identification (and recommendations) of root cause for performance issues within a specific application and/or SQL Server instance(s).

 

SSAS – Assessment and recommendations of SSAS environment for optimal performance.

 

.NET – Application (code) specific assessment and recommendations using best practices and automated tools.

 

Hardware Expansion Assessment – Measure twice, cut once. We identify opportunities for improving application performance before a purchase of new or additional hardware. If you still need hardware, we provide specific recommendations.

 

 

 

SolidQ is committed to providing unparalleled Business Intelligence (BI) expertise and service. As an elite group of experts, our primary goal is to deliver expert consulting services and to empower you through focused mentoring, facilitating the promotion of independence and long-term success with Microsoft’s full BI Stack.

 

SSIS Framework – We help you establish a reusable ETL framework to speed development and improve performance. We teach the framework and customize it for your unique environment while helping you implement.
 
SSAS Performance Tuning and Optimization – Our Mentors assess your SSAS environment and provide recommendations for optimal performance.
 
SharePoint PerformancePoint Services Jumpstart – This focused effort helps you evaluate and realize quick value from SharePoint PerformancePoint Services while establishing relevant best practices for your environment.
 
Data Mining Jumpstart – We help introduce Data Mining into your environment to improve strategic decision making.

 

SolidQ´s industry-leading SharePoint experts can help you identify the appropriate technology solutions to your company’s current IT problems, business concerns and objectives. We are focused on making sure that the SharePoint solution is aligned to your business needs and provides your company with an economic benefit; as well as help you make big IT decisions regarding your SQL Server environment, storage and hardware needs.

 

Enterprise Content Management – We help to leverage SharePoint 2010 for Enterprise Content Management, Document Management, or Web Content Management for public web sites while upgrading rapidly and easily. Consideration is made for strategies surrounding user awareness and adoption.

 

SharePoint Assessment with Upgrade or Migration Services – SolidQ can evaluate your SharePoint needs or environment. We help you plan an initial implementation, and for upgrade and migration, we help you keep all your content and metadata (original author, posting date, versioning).

 

SharePoint Governance – Internal guidelines and procedures for how SharePoint is used and administered is a critical component to any successful SharePoint deployment, ensuring a rich, secure user experience while maintaining high IT standards.

 

Extranet and Intranet Portals – SolidQ can provide development and mentoring for private collaboration portals for staff, partners and customers.

 

Dashboards and Business Intelligence – SolidQ’s industry-leading BI team is the go-to source for visually representing organizational information for trend analysis, forecasting and planning.

 

Unified Communications - Unified Communications means to any organization in terms of collaboration, communications, conferencing, telephony and voicemail.

 

SolidQ Virtualization Services - We offer our real life experience to you so that you can take advantage of the numerous benefits that Microsoft Virtualization Technologies have to offer.

 

 

SQL Server 2008 R2 Upgrade Assessment and Planning – We provide a roadmap that defines your ideal upgrade or migration plan for all parts of SQL Server to the 2008 R2 version.

 

Application Architecture Design Assessment – Our Mentors assess your existing application design and provide recommendations for an optimal architecture and best practices.

 

SQL Server Consolidation Assessment and Planning – We assess database consolidation opportunities and provide expected benefit, resources, and budgeting recommendations.

 

SQL Server 2008 Data Warehouse Competitive Benchmark – The 2-3 week benchmark provides a cost and performance evaluation using the organization’s data warehouse data, migrated to SQL Server 2008, and implemented on a scale-up SQL Server Fast Track architecture or a scale-out SQL Server PDW platform.

 

Oracle Migration Assistance – SolidQ can assist you in your effort starting with a migration complexity assessment all the way through the live deployment of your database.

 

Side-by-Side Mentoring Intensives – These 2- to 5-day, side-by-side engagements improve your skills related to a specific strategic technical resource. Strategic value is especially high when transferring past experience to a new platform or technology.

 

Mentoring can be expanded to a more consultative engagement where we work on your project one-on-one to ensure best practices architecture, design, and full life cycle development. If you want to get it done right the first time, SolidQ can help.