D&S Business Solutions  

Data Services

Our speciality at D&S Business Solutions is business data and we provide the following services to assist you and your company's data needs:

  • Analysis and Design

    • We believe that at the core of most businesses is their data. A poor data foundation can lead to many problems including lack of data integrity, performance issues and the inability of the system to grow with your business.

    We have considerable experience in analyzing business data requirements and mapping business processes to physical data. We can design the data model that provides a solid foundation that will work for you and your company today and well into the future.

  • Upsizing and Optimization

    • Many companies initially create small databases to handle their day-to-day business, usually with a small number of users. But as the client and user base grows and their business requirements increase, they find their existing database's performance prohibitively slow and the information gathering capabilities inadequate.

    We can work with you and your staff to add additional information gathering capabilities to your database and also increase performance by optimizing and/or re-designing your current database.

  • Importing and Exporting Data, Business Reporting

    • Moving data in to (importing) and out of (exporting) a database is a basic requirement for all businesses. Data entry is the most common method for getting data into a database and generating printed reports the most common for getting it out again.

    However, there are often additional input and output needs and this is where D&S Business Solutions can help you and your company.


    • We can develop an importing solution that pre-processes external data, validating and converting it, before importing into you database. These processes can also be automated to run during off-peak hours, thereby reducing any potential down time and user conflict.
    • We can develop an exporting solution to allow you to share your data with your clients and/or business partners in various formats including but not limited to:

      - Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files
      - Excel Spreadsheets
      - XML
      - CVS (Comma Separate Values) files
      - SDF (System Data Format) files
      - DBF (free tables)

    • We can develop a business reporting solution that simplifies the report generation process, removing the often tedious task of gathering and compiling the data used in the reports, allowing you and your staff to manage your valuable time more efficiently.