A company’s database contains one of the most valuable assets the company owns—its data. Unfortunately, many of today’s businesses do not begin to realize the potential value represented by the data residing in these repositories. Why is such a valuable resource so underutilized? The primary reason is that most corporate data resources are locked away in proprietary non-SQL legacy database management systems that restrict access to all but accomplished programmers. MillenniuM Information Systems offers Database Services to solve this common problem.

Our Database Services encompass four general areas:

• General Database Services
• Legacy Systems Modernization
• Data Integration
• Knowledge Management

MillenniuM's valuable tools and services provide versatile access to data resources. This promotes informed management decisions.

MillenniuM’s approach is unique; we concentrate on leveraging the existing resources already owned by your compny, as opposed to providing solutions that require large and costly development projects. This not only saves you money, it also provides solutions much more quickly allowing your company to begin to realize a return on its investment much sooner.

General Database Services

MillenniuM provides general database services for the three major database vendors: IBM, Oracle, and Microsoft. These services include:

• Software installation and configuration
• Logical and physical database design
• Database administration
• Database tuning
• Application design/development
• Web enablement.

Our certified professionals ensure that our clients get maximum value for their investment.

Legacy Systems Modernization

In order to properly leverage valuable data resources, one must have ready access to them. Unfortunately for many enterprises these data resources are “locked” away in proprietary legacy databases requring specific training to access. In many cases, these legacy platforms incorporate large application portfolios that represent mission-critical business logic and an extremely large financial investment.

What is needed is a way to move the data to a more open modern database platform while retaining the investment represented by the existing application portfolio. MillenniuM provides tools and services to do just that. MillenniuM will migrate your data to a modern SQL-based database platform and make the changes to your application portfolio required to support the new database platform. MillenniuM can also modernize the applications by converting them to state-of-the-art languages and/or web enabling them—all while retaining the crucial business rules embedded within the original source code. Our legacy systems modernization services allow clients to convert from:

• SUPRA/TIS/TOTAL/MANTIS
• IDMS/ADS
• IMS
• ADABAS/NATURAL
• DATACOM/IDEAL
• Model204/User Language
• Sybase
• Informix
• Ingres

to more stable, open platforms such as DB2/UDB, ORACLE, and SQL Server.

Data Integration

In many instances, the value of a data resources increases exponentially when it is presented in combination with other related data. This “merging” of the data may not be as easy as it should be because the data resides in separate, disparate databases that do not integrate.

MillenniuM provides clients with the ability to establish a virtual database that may consist of multiple heterogeneous database platforms. Using a variety of commercial-off-the-shelf and custom developed middleware (depending on the participating technologies) we can provide you with an environment that allows you to integrate data resources to maximize the value of your data. Services include:

• Data Mapping and Standardization
• Data Migration and Transformation
• Data Quality Engineering
• N-Tier Data Warehousing / Data Marts.

Knowledge Management

MillenniuM is expert in the development of systems tailored to meet the specific needs of each client. They are tailored to make maximum use of off-the-shelf components combined with existing client data resources. This approach expedites the development and deployment cycle, quickly providing value — typically in less than 90 days. These systems are developed interactively with you, using an evolutionary approach. MillenniuM provides technical guidance while you provide the functional knowledge. This allows the systems to be continually refined as your company realizes more and better ways to maximize the power of your data resources.