Data and Information Management

PRAGMATEK's Data and Information Management Services Center of Excellence helps clients focus on the 'full-life cycle' enterprise data. Today, in so many businesses in all kinds of industries, data IS the business! How you collect it, store it, secure it, access it, archive it, and run your business with it, makes it your most important corporate asset. It has a life-cycle. It must be managed accordingly -- with consideration of its worth to your business – over its entire lifetime.

PRAGMATEK takes data strategy to a new level - with detailed application and data classifications, and then link them to your business policies. These data life policies are then 'pushed' into your IT infrastructure to better manage and allocate computing and storage resources for critical applications. By coupling these data life policies with a tiered and virtualized computing and storage infrastructure, you can place applications and information in the appropriate location — according to their business value. This approach simplifies your infrastructure management and operational tasks and reduces the time and money you spend on compute and storage resources.

We also specialize in helping you build systems that never lose your data or corrupt it. Our expertise includes: Scalable Systems, High-availability, Business Continuance, and Disaster Recovery. Our solutions use the latest technologies, including: Clusters, Grid Computing, Virtualized Computing, Virtualized Storage, and Policy-based networks, database operations, and storage.

The CoE is structured along two key dimensions: data engineering and data operations. Data Engineering encompass all of those analysis, design, and build processes and skills needed to deploy today's global IT systems. Data operations are focused on the technologies and operational methodologies needed to run a global 24x7 five-nines data management infrastructure. The domain expertise of each dimension of the CoE follows:

Data Engineering:
Data Strategy
Data Architecture
Data Management
Data Modeling
Platform & Process Development
Data Security
Data Warehouse & Business Intelligence
Content Management


Data Operations:
Platform and Tool Selection
Performance Optimization
Server and Database Consolidation
Upgrades and Migrations
Outsourced Database & Systems Management
Application and Database Hosting
Customized Training and Seminars