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Christmas is coming... and retailers need to be ready
Are you a retailer looking to prepare your database for the Christmas buying surge?
Speak to one of our experts today.
Christmas...it gets earlier every year! But for retailers, prepping in the early autumn for the Christmas surge period is essential.
As retailers grant the consumer ever greater product choices and routes to purchase, data volumes increase too. This year, with supply chains under unprecedented pressure, the Christmas shopping period is set to begin even earlier. So retailers need to be ready now. Without taking steps to prepare for an increase in activity around Christmas time, there is a real risk that databases can become overwhelmed during this key trading period.
Whilst this might sound like a scary and potentially onerous task, it doesn't have to be. A common exercise we regularly conduct for our retail customers is to remove the potential obstacles for high database performance and throughput by delivering an expert, structured and strictly managed data cleansing and tuning exercise. This helps to eliminate risk for all aspects of database performance.
Read on to find out what this involves and which applications it should apply to. Alternatively, fill in the form to the right to get in touch for a chat about your database.
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Speak to our retail experts today on how we can help you and your database be ready for the Christmas surge.
What benefits will a database cleansing exercise deliver:
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Reduce this risk of any outages due to high performance demand on your critical systems
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Increase any maintenance windows as you reduce the time taken to complete backups
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Forecast and accurately plan future storage requirements though a baseline before and post peak periods
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Speedy reporting for crucial sales decisions by querying less data
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Save your organisation money if you are paying for storing data you don’t actually need
What critical applications need this care and attention:
- Point of Sale – shorten the queues at your tills by ensuring orders can be taken quickly and payments processed swiftly
- Ecommerce / Website - avoid the ‘circle of doom’ where every second waited is pushing the prospective buyer away
- Warehouse Management System – don’t over-promise on goods that are no longer available for shipping in your distribution centres
- Data Warehouse – real-time accurate information to track promotion success / failure plan your next markdown or stock replenishment
How can we help you:
- Accredited and expert consultant delivery either on-site or remotely
- Ability to schedule and complete these exercises at anti-social hours i.e. during those precious maintenance windows
- Daily monitoring checks for your systems on peak trading days
- Re-indexing and statistics refresh – ensure that your database systems pick the most efficient plans!
Which database environments and application platforms do we cover:
- On-Premise or Hosted – Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL and other open source databases.
- Public & Private Cloud – Oracle, Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services
Speak to one of our experts today and get your database ready for Christmas.
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