Feldman Consulting Enterprises,
LLC has extensive database development experience to ensure
that you're getting the most out of your data.
Database Development
Feldman Consulting
Enterprises, LLC has experience with databases from the very
small up to databases that are large enough to run
operations at nationally-known financial institutions and
manufacturing companies. We have experience with issues such
as scalability, disaster planning and recovery, security,
encryption, and replication to ensure your data is available
when and where it is needed yet is appropriately protected.
How can a custom
database help you?
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Replace
complex and messy Excel spreadsheets - Do you
have a complicated Excel spreadsheet that is impossible
to maintain and doesn't ever seem to provide the right
numbers? By having the data properly structured in a
database those issues can be eliminated.
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Eliminate
inconsistencies and errors in your data - By
having data in only one place and having the data
validated at input you'll never have to decide which
piece of data is right or wonder why it is inaccurate
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Design your
data and interface around the way your business operates
- It's difficult to work with software that doesn't
quite do what you need it to. By having it designed
around the way you work the software will do exactly
what you need it to so it matches with the way that you
work.
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Make it easy
for people to accomplish what they need to - By
making it easy for people to store, retrieve, and modify
the data that they need to everyone at your company can
make better, quicker decisions and be more productive
instead of spending hours trying to figure things out
and getting frustrated
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One
centralized secure data repository - all your
data can be in one place that is easily secured and
backed up, making it much easier to manage
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Automate
routine processes - Do you need to do things
like sending out notifications to certain clients or
prospects on a regular basis? A database can make sure
the right information is used and that is up-to-date.
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Keep your
website up-to-date - if you have something that
you want publicly available for your customers, such as
a list of partners or a calendar of events, a database
can automatically provide this information on your
website
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Provide
reporting capabilities and insights that you never had
before - With all your data in one place it
will finally be possible to see things that you've never
seen before that can help you make better decisions
quickly. You can also free up the time of people who are
manually creating reports.
Our databases have been
used simultaneously by people at all levels of companies and
even remotely to handle functions such as taking
applications online, processing data, and providing reports,
all while meeting or exceeding industry-standard practices
for data security, storage, and retention. By having a
database custom-designed to meet your needs everyone at your
company will be able to accomplish what they need to very
easily and you'll be able to leverage your data to find new
insights.
Would you like
to be able to instantly generate graphs like this?
Typical types of problems we've solved:
Do you know how much of each product you have in inventory?
Do you know which employee last worked on an item?
Can you instantly make a chart showing sales of an item for the last 12 months?
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Ask yourself:
Am I spending
more time than I should generating reports?
Are errors in my data causing extra work for my employees and me?
Am I having difficulty getting the charts and data I need to make good decisions?
Am I concerned about data security and protection against disasters
and failures?
Is data stored in multiple places
and often inconsistent?
Are my current systems painful to use? |
Did you answer "yes" to any of the
above questions? We can help!
Here's how we've helped other
clients harness the power of databases. You could be next!
Case One -
Streamlining the Processes at a Financial Institution
A financial institution that
specialized in energy lending to consumers needed a loan
origination system that allowed them the flexibility to
track many unique parameters in order to properly administer
different government programs with special requirements.
Commercially available solutions were too rigid in their
capabilities and weren't able to meet these needs. In
addition those systems were very cumbersome to use and
poorly integrated with the internal processes of the
company, requiring lots of extra effort to manually process
data from the loan applications. The company also had many
data reporting requirements for the various programs that
couldn't be met with what they had.
A brand new database
solution was designed to meet the needs of the company. The
new database was designed to interface with many of the
existing systems that the company used, from gathering loan
applications from the website to pulling credit to creating
and sending out the appropriate documents to customers and
contractors. The database was developed in a modular fashion
with scalability in mind so that future needs could be
handled with a minimum of additional effort. The employees
of the company were involved in every step of the
development process to ensure that their needs were met and
that the system would be well-accepted by the people using
it on a daily basis. The solution allowed the company to
drastically decrease the turnaround time and labor for
processing loan applications while enabling them to easily
analyze data for the programs that they were administering.
The system had approximately
30 simultaneous users from various departments in the
company, including management, accounting, sales, marketing,
and underwriting.
Results:
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Processed over 1,500
loan applications per month, including credit reports
and document generation
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Usable by everyone at
company in all roles due to intense collaboration with
users during development
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Flexible enough to
handle many specialized and unique loan programs
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Easily generated
high-value reports for management and provided data for
web services
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Protected valuable
business data with automatic backups and off-site data
replication
This is a
typical input screen designed with user input and
program-specific tabs along the top to automatically manage
process flow, which reduces errors and makes training easier.
Case Two -
Redesign of a Financial Security Cashflow Engine
A financial institution
that processed scenarios of loan portfolios to generate
cashflow projections needed to take their software to the
next level - and fast - to maintain contracts with their
clients. The existing system was originally developed in
Excel, which required a lot of manual intervention to use
and maintain, and was quickly becoming overloaded with the
volumes of calculation that needed to be done to grow the
operation.
A database solution was
developed to manage the data. This made it much easier to
automate the entire process from start to finish and track
jobs, which was a big selling point with clients. A special
cashflow generation engine was developed to compute
cashflows several orders of magnitude faster than was
possible previously, allowing for more throughput and larger
jobs. The database also greatly simplified the generation of
the necessary reports that were returned to the clients. In
addition this design will make it much easier to add
enhancements to the system in the future.
The bulk of this project
was completed in under two weeks from concept to functioning
system and helped the financial institution maintain and
improve relationships with their clients who had been
seeking improvements in the process for several months.
Results:
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Concept to functioning
system in under two weeks
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Processing speed
increased by several orders of magnitude
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Financial institution
able to handle much more business and improve
relationships with clients
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Database design makes
it easy to add enhancements in the future
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Case Three -
Inventory Management for a Processing Company
A company that specializes
in processing and recycling plastic needed a customized
inventory system to track and manage their materials because
of the nature of their operations. They had a system in
place, but unfortunately it was a disaster waiting to happen
for several reasons. It was not only incredibly slow, prone
to random unexplainable errors, and difficult to use, but
the original developer was nowhere to be found and the
company had no way of installing or maintaining the
software. Later it was determined that the entire backend
rested in one very poorly-structured Access database.
A brand new database was
developed in MSSQL with a structure that reflected the way
the company processed material to more appropriately handle
its operations. Not only did this run much more quickly, but
the data was also more secure and it was much easier to see
and analyze material flow. An interface was designed which
allowed everyone at the company to accomplish the tasks that
they needed to, from the workers in the warehouse recording
their tasks to upper management tracking material and
generating reports. Now the company has a database that is
maintainable and much easier to use, making their operations
much more efficient.
Results:
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Business is much
better protected against data disaster
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Database is much
easier to use due to enhanced performance
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Usable by everyone at
company in all roles due to intense collaboration with
users during development
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Flexible enough to
handle specialized operations of the business
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Easily generated
high-value reports for management to keep operations
efficient
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Case Four - Engine Software Calibration Maintenance
A major diesel engine
manufacturer was having problems maintaining all the
different engine calibrations. The process was done by hand,
and as such it was very time consuming and error prone.
There were hundreds of files that needed to be updated and
documentation that needed to be written for each change.
Corrective actions were frequently required and engineers
were working 16-hour days to get some of the calibration
projects done. No one was really sure if anything was being
done correctly. People were doing a very poor job of
tracking the changes that were made and it was tough to
trace histories.
An Access database was
developed to fully manage the calibration process. By the
time the program was finished, the company was able to
successfully manage and modify the engine calibration
software for every engine platform they had. The database
generated automated scripts, which applied the appropriate
changes to the calibrations, maintained detailed history
logs, and performed calibration compares to ensure that the
changes were done correctly. In addition, the database was
even able to catch and correct errors in the calibrations
that had occurred during previous manual changes. The system
proved itself during the launch of a new generation of
engines, which required constant updates to the calibrations
and new calibration releases. This was more complexity for
calibration management than had ever been experienced by the
company before. A job that originally was distributed across
four engineers was now handled flawlessly by one engineer.
Results:
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Reduction in setup
time to generate calibrations of over 90%
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Errors in calibrations
were eliminated by automatically applying and comparing
requested modifications
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Errors were eliminated
in engineering change request process due to automatic
generation
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Consistency in
calibration generation process simplified documentation
and training requirements
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Updated calibrations
were always available for testing within 24 hours
instead of weeks
The engines in trucks like this
one depend on having the latest calibrations.
See what sets us apart!
Your project could be a Breakthrough! Contact us today to find out how!
Feldman Consulting Enterprises, LLC has worked with clients all
over the world and is based out of Macungie, PA.
Phone:
484-695-5651
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